Home Distillation of Alcohol (Homemade Alcohol to Drink)

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18 Nov '01
Added Scotts photos of his reflux still
Added Pilch's chart & guidelines for diluting alcohol
Yet more recipes from Wal to the liqueurs and flavoured spirits pages.
Added more specific instructions about how to use oak (eg as shavings or chips)
Added more help from Jack on making a bourbon sourmash mash (after I got it quite wrong in practice)
Added Scotts advice re using a sink strainer to connect the column to the lid

11 Nov '01
Added more of Matts photos to the Nixon-Stone stills photo page.
Added Fizz's comment re using a hand-blender to oxygenate the wash before adding yeast.
Took out some copyrighted material of Alex's from the Not Stills page (about the history of freezing).
Added using carbon in the wash, prior to fermenting to clean up neutral spirits
Added more recipes from Wal to the liqueurs page.

3 Nov '01
Rearranged the flavouring pages, splitting it up into flavoured neutral spirits (non-sweet), and liqueurs (sweet). Removed the "recipes" page after moving its contents to the new pages.

2 Nov '01
Added an essential oils page.
More comments about when to finish a pot still run.

25 October '01
Added more details from Wal about flavouring and using citrus.
Added more of Matts photos to the Nixon-Stone stills photo page.

14 October '01
Dave got the forums working. These are areas where you can discuss distilling topics etc. Check it out.

13 October '01
Added comments from Wal & Don about using lactose as a source of sugar.
Added Wal & Kens comments about using plastic for boilers.
Modified all the photos pages to use thumbnails instead - make them heaps quicker to load.

6 October '01
Book review of John Stones The Carriage Still.

4 October '01
Added Wals recipes for slivovitz
Added more of Matts photos
Added Wals guideline for using fruits to the FAQ
3 October '01
Added Wals recipes for making cider (to distill into calvados)
29 September '01
Wow ! what a weekend .. Have given up on Geocities as the main site, and will only use it from now on as a "mirror" site.
Moved everything to http://HomeDistiller.org (BIG thanks to Dave)
David set up a mirror site at http://distiller.servebeer.com
Updated the download files (back to two - one for the text, one for the photos)
Added Des's stuff about urea as a nutrient (and took out my comments)

26 September '01
Added Jacks recipe for Poitin.

22 September '01
Added Matts photos of how he has constructed his Nixon-Stone still.
Added Jacks instructions for using an ice-water still for making whisky.
Added a couple more photos of my still showing the condensor
20 September '01
Added Tom StillPastor's photos

19 September '01
Created Page 6 of photos, for Ned Steamgoons's still

15 September '01
Added a photo of another of Pilch's stills

13 September '01
Added heaps more stuff from Wal to the flavours page. So much new stuff infact from Wal that I'm going to have to seriously reorganise this sometime soon. Thanks Wal !
5 September '01
Added photos of Big Kahunahs still

2 September '01
Added PK's recipe for rum

1 September '01
Added a calculator for HETP on the reflux design page.
Updated the #1 download ZIP file.
Added Wals curacao / triple sec recipes.
Added Jacks suggestion for getting free fruit to use.

25 August '01
Added Jacks recipe for a Korean rice based spirit, and for apple schnapps.
24 August '01
Updated all links to the new StillMaker site : Build a World Class Distillation Apparatus at Http://www.Moonshine-Still.com
23 August '01
Added photos and description of Victors aircooled still.
15 August '01
Added Yue Hungs information about aging in casks
14 August '01
Added Les's advice re washing and reusing carbon
12 August '01
Added Jacks recommendations for which yeasts to use.
Added an extended bio, describing more about how I came into distilling, and the development of this site.

7 August '01
Added The Omnipresent Mecakyrios' recipe for using maple syrup
6 August '01
Added Kez's method for using hot water when finishing a polishing run.
Added Bills recipe for blending essences etc to make a decent bourbon

4 August '01
Added Jacks advice on ethanol toxicity (alcohol poisoning)
2 August '01
Added Kens advice about using zeolites to dry ethanol.
Added a photo of Pilch's still
Added more of Jacks recipes for making schnapps and whiskies

31 July '01
Added advice from The Omnipresent Mecakyrios on using a doubler with a pot still.
29 July '01
Added Mikrobios' pdf Wine for Distilling.
Added Jacks recipe for mead brandy.

25 July '01
Added Mikrobios' technique for making gin

20 July '01
Added photos of Mikrobios' still
Added Blueflames cousins recipe for corn whisky
16 July '01
Changed the recipe for rum wash, to only be from molasses, and added how to distill it using a reflux still
Added Ups's method for malting grain.
Added Jacks method for making schnapps
3 July '01
Added Jacks simple (no chemicals or skill needed) test to check for the presence of fusels.
1 July '01
Added Daves still to the photo page.
26 June '01
Added more information/steps on how to design your own still.
Added Jacks information on making schnapps.
23 June '01
Added Jacks recipe Mashing without Cooking technique. Where would I be without this bloke ?
16 June '01
Added Jacks recipe for mock apple brandy.
Added conversions between fluid oz & mL to the units page.
Updated the safety concerns of when using copper.

12 June '01
Added Jacks raisin based recipes for making arak.
10 June '01
A whole heap of minor text changes, tidy-ups etc to about 15 pages. If I'd been a little smarter I would have done it BEFORE yesterdays update of the files ....

9 June '01
Corrected errors in the Reflux still design calculator, and have changed the value used for stainless steel scrubbers, to give a more realistic flooding volume.
Updated the download page.

6 June '01
Added photos of C's Nixon-Stone still
Added information about using zeolites to dry absolute ethanol (for fuel use)

5 June '01
Added Jacks no-sparge method for preparing all grain mashes.
Added Wals method for making brandy using raisins
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