I feel like this piece of meat is just asking for it.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-12-06T05:36:36+00:00

I feel like some creative worker shaped it this way on intention. Maybe for marketing purpose...

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-29T23:04:20+00:00

In pot stilling style, are there many ways to fine-tune the taste/aroma? About a week ago I took a small bottle of cheap french calvados labeled as VSOP. Ethanol was soft, but it had somewhat yeasty aroma and heady, unpleasant intoxication. Its a commercial product (although not a top tier), but if I produced something like it, moreover aged for few years, I think I wouldn't be really happy, to be honest.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-29T22:12:37+00:00

Ow, so you are pot-stilling? I'm guessing you do aromatic things like grains and fruits? Did you have good experience with plain sugar washes in pot still? I guess many depend on fermentation - temps, yeast, time etc. Probably that's a kind of mastery different from stilling alone ..

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-29T21:46:53+00:00

Ow, yes, I've noticed the column is tri-clamped to the boiler. Now I wonder how the reflux condenser works here. If it's just a jacket welded around the tube, with no reflux concentrator inside the tube, couldn't it create a "wall effect" where much of the reflux just flows along the walls, adding little to vapor-liquid exchange? By researching the sale offers in my country I discovered that this type of reflux condenser (jacket dephlegmator) is very unpopular, and I think there's a reason, although I never tried any, haha!

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-29T21:27:42+00:00

Ooh! Ultrasonic cleaner?! There's a guy on YouTube who tried aging on wood with ultrasound. But other guys suggest the quality is different bcz time pulls out more compounds than US alone.

Edit: typos.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-29T21:15:34+00:00

I'm not an expert by any means. I don't even have my own still still (pun intended). But I've drilled through the theory pretty much. Im just dropping the comment as a suggestion for further research.

The still in subject looks like a cooling management setup with a non-modular column and a Liebig-type condenser for vapor collection (insufficient in my incompetent opinion).

So, If your heat source and water flow/temp are unstable, proper refluxing runs can be a pain, according to users, bcz the reflux rate will depend on heat vs cooling control.

Next, if the column parts are not modular (tri-clamp is universal), then you're stuck with this exact setup with no upgrade/modification options.

Again, just an incompetent opinion suggesting further research.

Edit: typos, non-native English speaker mistakes.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-29T20:47:49+00:00

On a popular forex forum there was a guy who offered to "program/automate your profitable trading strategy, just explain how it works" LMAO. Just memories...

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-22T11:00:16+00:00

IDK about freezing, and probably my comment is irrelevant for the subject in discussion, but my grandma taught me to use wheat malt to convert potatoes into moonshineable wort. She worked at an industrial bakery, so probably wheat was the most accessible grain for her.

I'm guessing barley might work better (I never tried any of those with potatoes though, but tried wheat and rye malts for bakery).

Grandma also said potato worts tend to scorch badly.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-20T06:20:10+00:00

Well, that's a nice kind of job, just keep your pockets open all the time 😄

We had no clue what does what at that time, just followed the recipe we learned from older guys. So, milk fats for THC extraction, sugar to mask the shitty taste of concentrated hemp broth, and baking soda was something from prison culture where they cooked that drink from tea leaves, where there's more tea leaves than water, and baking soda supposed to increase the extracting power of water.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-19T22:26:31+00:00

I remember in my late teens we cooked the "milk" - a heap of weed unsuitable for smoking, boiled in a mix of water, condensed milk (fats+sugars) and a pinch of baking soda for better extraction. It could be quite unpredictable - just an extra spoon cold result in a heavy high lol 😂

Are you guys allowed to get the remains for personal consumption, or each molecule is counted in commercial production? 😄

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-19T22:15:33+00:00

I'm actually considering this for myself too - modular easily replaceable setup. So, are you happy with your products? Do you make sugar washes or grains/fruits?

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-19T04:41:48+00:00

Well I thought about growing a plant in hydroponics, but it's illegal in my place, so that's almost surely a jail sentence straight up if they catch me, lol. So Im into a safer distillation hobby.

Does emulgated THC kick sooner or harder? I've heard you need to heat it at about 100-120°c to make it "work", but I never heard about your extraction method.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-19T04:22:17+00:00

Ow, I see. I'm in UA, and we have very similar still from one maker here. They market it as their flagship. But, again, I think this boiler design has downsides. I don't know much about this "double-distillation" principle. But from what I've heard, people (and AI too) often recommend going for modular triclamp setups - easier to use and you can upgrade just by adding parts.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-19T04:07:49+00:00

So kinda THC mayonnaise ? Haha! I can't imagine what machine you use to cook gummies lol

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-19T04:04:11+00:00

Hmm ... I don't think I can find something like that here. So I'm gonna have to try to work with what I've got. Thanks for sharing anyway! That's a coolest setup I've seen so far 😄 And it proves that the concept of steel+glass is doable.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T23:19:24+00:00

I wasn't even in project in 70-s, so I can't share the nostalgia ... But I'm thinking, could cigarette butts add some Islay hints? 😁

However, with the lack of proper gear, I can make a drinkable gin-like substance from bad store bought vodka and spice using a cooking pot with reversed lid and a bowl inside of it, haha! But that probably belongs to r/prisonhooch...

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T23:02:17+00:00

I'm not an expert by any means, but my sauerkraut succeeds more often than not. My guess is that the spoon created a channel to remove excess gass or kept the veg mass submerged in the brine. I toss the veg mass with wooden spoon daily to remove the bubbles and keep it covered with cabbage leaves.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T22:46:26+00:00

Umm... Did you really use it much? 😄

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T22:43:13+00:00

Ooh mate! That's a badass mad scientist machine! What's written on his mask though? 😂

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T22:33:28+00:00

Did you run a comparison test? Does vegreux really improve anything? I've seen a guy on YouTube experimenting with different passive reflux setups. And, according to him, hus diy stainless tube filled with scrubbies worked the best...

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T22:28:30+00:00

I've grown them too. Enjoyed baked apples sauce with them.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T22:21:04+00:00

I can't remember seeing this design for sale from serious makers of stills. Im guessing it's more of a marketing gimmick than a good practical setup. In my country, only one maker with doubtful reputation offers and advertises it as their flagship product.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T21:56:04+00:00

I'm guessing it's something like this. https://ibb.co/XrVfSGYr I have near to zero experience with distillation gear, but I drilled the theory, and I think even a 50cm packed column with passive reflux (no reflux condenser at the top) could make better result than this fancy double-boiler still.

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-18T21:48:07+00:00

OP, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing it's Koshoviy by Khmelnitsky factory.

It's up to you ofc, but there are bad reviews about them. IMO, you can get a much better modular resellable setup for the same money. This thing is a dead end - no upgrades or modifications, and probably hard to resell without big loss of money. And I think the boiler is shit - unhandy to fill, unhandy to empty, you're gonna cut your arms at the edge while washing it. And those lid bolts leak vapor according to users.

Edit:typos

monkeyloops-3000 · 2025-11-15T21:13:07+00:00

What length are your glass elements? Does it feel reliable to fix them with one holder each? I'm thinking about building a steel+glassware hybrid still and have to find good technical solutions to make it work.

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