Hello fellow distillers and potential ex-reddit users. This is the new space on Lemmy for all things distilling!

Hopefully we can grow the community and learn this new Lemmy thing together.

The space is looking pretty bare, but with some help, it’ll be home in no time. Here’s a pick of my setup to make it look less bare. It’s a reflux still from AliExpress sitting on top of a grainfather. The needle valves that it came with are rubbish and need replacing, as I can’t close the reflux condenser all the way anymore. Regardless of its flaws I still love it and it can produce some tasty (tasteless) vodka.

    • SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Is that a Grainfather with a still attachment? Nice high-tech setup.

      I find the process fascinating, though the legal formalities are iffy in places around the world.

      Do you barrel age or anything like that?

      • not_that_original@lemmy.worldOPM
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        1 year ago

        It is a grainfather! it’s super useful to be able to dial in the power output through the app. I also use the grainfather for homebrew, so it’s nice to share equipment between hobbies. I’m lucky enough to live in New Zealand, the only legal country in the world, so I have no issues having this visible to the neighbours. That being said, I feel like I’d have a go (more discreetly) if my situation was different. The hobby is extremely rewarding.

        I usually make gin, so no barrel aging there. I have made a rum from a bucket of molasses I bought, that was aged. With the scale of home distilling is often a case of putting the oak in the spirit, rather than the spirit in oak. It’s to do with the surface area to liquid ratios of small barrels being way too high compared to a commercial barrel.

  • abraxas
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    1 year ago

    Cheers! I’m also an r/firewater ex-pat (at least, at this rate!).

    Since nobody else is here yet… got a good clean bourbon recipe that portions well? Every bourbon recipe I’ve found/tried so far is all-over-the-place trying to read compared to any other cooking recipe I know.

    I’ve got 2 5gal buckets and an 8gal bucket, and I’d like to fill all 3 with mash. I’ve got a digiboil with the mash kit that I plan to use to make it (giving me about 8gal of room if I really push it). I don’t mind doing 3 batches of mash, but other than “lots of corn and a bit of 6-row” I how much water and what temps to use is inconsistent.

    Also, I’d rather stay away from splarging, but Bourbon should be on-grain anyway. I think.

    Already got the howtomoonshine and clawhammer recipes and they seem a little hectic and inconsistent to me.

  • Coolcoder360@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Happy to see firewater make it’s way to lemmy. Would it be possible to repost and pin the pinned post that was on Reddit about methanol?

    That was a really good resource I referenced a few times for people when there were questions about that.