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  • #31
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      • #33
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        • #34
          Thinking of making Vodka for the wife as she is not really a beer drinker.
          Never made spirits before, did a google and have got the basics.
          Will most likely construct my own pot still.
          How much ingredients will I need for 1 litre of Vodka ?.
          Any advise will be apperciated.
          Everyone must beleive in something, I beleive I'll have another beer

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          • #35
            I will say it'll be pretty hard to try and make one litre of vodka on the dot. At 40% ABV you're going to need 500ml of distillate at 80% ABV, or around 6l of wash at 10% ABV. That's not a lot. I'd rather do a full batch, say 20l at 10% ABV, and store the rest. It's effort to make smaller batches, I think.

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              groenspookasem
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              • #37
                Yea, the proper distillers seem to even frown upon anything less than 50L. On my first 14L experiment, I could kind of see why. Sampling and measuring in small increments is quite fiddly. I say +1 for starting with a standard beer batch size of 20/23L if you are able
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                • #38
                  I'm also looking at the distilling idea, actually my plan was to start there and work my way to brewing beer. Well, at the time I couldn't find a still soon enough, so I started with beer. Now I'm also finding, I only have my little toe in the door and still need lots of equipment to brew if I wanted to move away from extract or kit n kilo.

                  My current plan is to go either with a 30L or 50L keg and buy some copper or a keg kit. I also looked at a small 7L still when I started looking and doing research and everyone keeps saying that it is a waste, so now I'm leaning towards the 50L. Now with your statement @Langchop I'm leaning even more towards the 50L keg. So if I made a 10% abv wash and filled it 2/3 to about 34L and get close to 10% return, it should be worth the effort I imagine.

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                    • #40
                      Stupid question - how do you filter it through carbon? Just a filter paper full of activated charcoal and then pour the booze over?

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                        • #42
                          Yeah that's what I had in mind as well. Charcoal in a coffee filter, stuck into a pipe of sorts to let it cover the whole lot, and then into a container from where I'll use it. Thanks mate!

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                          • #43
                            Groen, any tips for starting out with the alembic still? I got one over the weekend, but I am not sure where to start for Gin. Should I buy some cheap vodka tomorrow or should I try make a wash and how neutral will I get it?

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                            • #44
                              Quick Q - I have some industrial alcohol. There's obvious stuff added to make it taste and smell bad. I distilled some for the hell of it (watered it down to 40%, then stuck it in the still) and the product coming out is almost nice. The question is - is it still acceptable to consume? I don't want to drink stuff that's toxic. The product is apparently 98% Ethanol (for lab purposes) and there's no other alcohols added (because it has to be ethanol), but it has that definitive "hospital" smell on it.

                              So I ran it through the still and the first drippings that came out has a STRONG hospital smell. The same stuff that makes the ethanol stink/taste bad, so I'm making a very generous cut with that in mind. I'm just asking - is the rest fine to drink if I distill it 2 or 3 times? It smells fine and tastes fine, so I'm just asking how would you know?

                              EDIT: I have to add, the place I got the alcohol from said it should be safe to drink, so there's that.
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