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Enough charred wood will make anything black.

I press all the grains and put it in buckets for farmer. I placed an ad on Craig's list and had tons of calls.

10/64? You mean 5/32. I use 1/4 or 1/8 screen.

With real sugar you have to add nutrients. Plus you have "feed" your mash the sugar. You can't just add a crap ton of sugar. If your sugar % is to high you will kill the large part of your yeast. Lets say your going to mix 100 lb of sugar to 50 gallons of water. Start with 30 lb of sugar for the first 24-28 hours, and over the next 3-4 days feed the rest in at 20-25 lb at a time.

I can get up to 22-24% abv using My Hammermill. But usually my goal is to aim for 10-15% when you get up into the About 20 is it really alters the flavor. I love my Hammermill I use it for everything. I would highly suggest that flour is almost too fine for what you want. There's a fine line between going to find into course. If you go to course you won't get the proper conversion. If you go to fine it will be very hard to manage and you will get stuck in every Process. Here is a real life example for me. I use the quarter inch screen in my Hammermill and I would yield 10 to 12% by volume and I could always get a large amount of alcohol out of the grain, after I would press it And it would be super dry. When I went to the eighth inch screen I got about 13 to 15% alcohol by volume. But when I went to press it it would still be very wet. So I lost the yields on actual volume of product be distilled. So in conclusion using the quarter inch screen was far superior for actually producing money than using the eighth inch screen than trying to get more yield because of the complications in extracting the alcohol out of the eighth inch screen for me. The 1/4" screen is like a very very fine corn meal The 1/8" screen is like a coarse flour Also the benefit of the Hammermill over the roller mill is speed. I can Hammermill 4000 pounds an hour. That's why I only use my Hammermill about two hours every month. If you're doing corn on a roller mill you will find that corn is a super coarse-grain and will wear your roller mill out even if it's heat-treated over a period of time it will lose its outside diameter. Sorry to be long winded! Joseph Dehner www.dehnerdistillery.com

It is a lot more than just the size of the column and the heat been input into the boiler. To me the size of the condenser is a Irrelevant because that's a matter of just thermal transfer. If your condenser cannot keep up with your output increase the condenser it's just that simple. Or just add another condenser on. 1. surface area of the boiler 2. heat input 3. Diameter of the column 4. How many bubbler caps 5. How many downturns. For example if you had a 30 gallon boiler that I had 50 ft.² a service area it would overtake a four-inch column. With that being said the same thing with a 12 inch column and one bubbler And one turn down it would overtake that also. I know this example is a little bit off topic but think of it also like this they small 20 pound LP cylinder only produces so much flow Per minute by a giant farm cylinder weighing down inside produces far more flow per minute. The big farm cylinders are laying on the side so during the cold winter months with the massive surface area so they can still produce the required flowrate. I hope this helps. Joseph Dehner 515-559-4879

Sounds like your doing ok with what you have. But try to preheat With something else other than the Ox- acetylene torch. The reason is that the acetylene that you're using is a very dirty gas and put high amounts of carbon in the material and when you're using stainless and copper you don't need carbon in your material so if you would go with the cleaner fuel like liquid propane it would probably be a lot better for you. I would suggest just a small little LP torch. Also keep your heat on the stainless just like you're doing. Questions just ask.

Get a stencil made out of stainless steel. Then use a small torch ( lp hand torch) and burn the inside of the stencil revealing your symbol. It is by far the easiest and cheapest thing you'll probably ever come across and it looks awesome.

I made all of my own Equipment. www.dehnerdistillery.com Not shown is my new continuous still. If you have any questions on how to build anything just email me. Via my website.

A continous still is just that, " continous". It does not matter how many ports there are. Just look at a oil refinery. They make all kinds of products out of crude oil with one continous still, and a crap ton of ports. For me I have two three ports, one in, and two out. For me it is super complex in design but super simple to operate. To each his own. As far as equipment goes. Just as when pot stills were the only thing, then along came refraction stills. I'm sure they were looked at funny. Now continuous stills are getting a bad rep, or a miss under standing. It is only a matter of time before the masses come around. Super easy to use! Like I said. As a good piece of equipment should be. Thanks Joseph Master Distiller

I use nitrogen to blow out the bottles. No problems here. Good luck.

I have xpress fill and I love it!! www.dehnerdistillery.com

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Nice work.

My Hammermill is an old Mix Mill brand. It is over 25 years old and I bought it from a local farmer for $200. It hadn't been used for 15 years and was rusty in very bad shape. But the company is still in business and still makes parts for this particular Hammermill because it is like the top-of-the-line. I spent about $1200 to bring it up-to-date with all new parts. Truth be told a hammer mill is Very very similar to a tree chipper. There's not a whole lot of science behind Hammermill. They are just badass and they work awesome. Let know if I can help. Joseph Master Distiller

Corn flour. I am signing contracts and starting to sell some of the local Mexican restaurant so they can make their tortillas. The problem is is the cornflower is less than 100 µ in size so you have to sift the material coming out of Hammermill and then resend it back in if it does not pass through the screen that is being sifted through. Also I can do all sorts of flour for local bakeries and bread shops. The small screen I have for my Hammermill is one 16th of an inch. So it needs to be processed several times to be down past 100 µ. Commercial flour mills use giant 2 to 3 section roller mills to obtain flour consistency. I'm always trying to think out-of-the-box. Joseph Dehner Distillery

I use 3-3.5. Sometimes 4 lb per gallon of water. But I implement different type of technologies and different uses than normal to achieve this. Thanks Joseph Master Distiller

I use a press. It can change the flavor profile. But it works awesome,and it is what I want. Plus it press after it has fermented. Watch the video. www.dehnerdistillery.com Thanks Joseph Master Distiller

Go to your local co-op or feed store$7-8 per bushel. $13-14 by the 50lb bag. Sometimes you'll find corn in bags at big feed or dog or horse feed stores because people feed the squirrels. I think you should buy in bulk first, then by the bag. Take care! Joseph Master Distiller

I run my water thought 5 cubic feet of active carbon because it is city water. The filter is good for up to 400,000 gallons. I do not use RO at all. I don't believe it is worth it. Plus I feel the product you make should taste a little bit were it came from. Other wise every thing would taste the same. Joseph Master Distiller

Brandy is distilled wine. Back hundreds of years ago traders on the seas distilled wine so they could carry more goods on there ships. They thought they could add water back with it when they got to port. But sometimes the sea voyage was long and since the distilled wine was in oak barrels the sailors and there customers liked the distilled wine better. So that's how brandy was born. To me grappa is all the crap left over like spent grapes and with some stems and seeds. Joseph Master Distiller

Simpley put your food alcohol license in someone else's name. Easy..... But it really depends on your state. In Iowa you can't be a part of both. So hence the other name on the license. Thanks Joseph Master Distiller

Are you still looking? What are you looking to do? I can help if you would like. Joseph Master Distiller

I have a design for a heat exchanger just like what you're talking about that I've always wanted to build let me know if you're interested. Joseph Master Distiller

watts / volts = amps but if you run a 240volt element on 110 volts then it drops to 1/4 power. Your element will get as hot as you will let it get. It will never shut off unless you have a controller. It will boil all of your water until it's gone and then the helmet will burn out. The biggest thing that you want to watch when you're heating up your still is your watt density that is how many watts per square inch of your element. Joseph Master Distiller