Is there anywhere in North America or Canada that makes fully copper pot stills along the lines of this guy outfit?
https://www.ninefolddistillery.com
I saw what this fellow is doing and think its a really manageable size and hopefully cost. It seems like an operation that would be able to be maintained by one or two people while not being their sole source of income.
There is a chemistry error in your explanation. When esters undergo saponification (base hydrolysis), the products produced are an alcohol and a salt of the ester, not an alcohol and an acid like in an acid hydrolysis. Like if you mixed sodium hydroxide with oleic acid in water, you'd end up with glycerol and sodium oleate (a soap), or sodium hydroxide and ethyl acetate gives you sodium acetate (technically a soap, but not really, since it doesn't have any hydrophobicity). Just thought you shoul
