DISTILLING at Home | Our 1st use of Distillery King (Pure Distilling) Distillery Kit
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2023
- Follow along as we use our Pure Distilling Distillery kit from Distillery King to make and distil at home. Learn as we do, that there are rules on what we will be allowed to use the product for. We learned much more after this video was shared. Strangely despite this setup being available for sale in pretty much every homebrew store here in Vic, I don't think we are actually allowed to use it again. So please do your own research on this and don't take this video of our 1st use as advice.
Disclaimer: There are rules in Australia and in many places overseas for distilling alcohol. Please ensure you do your own due diligence (research) on the legislative obligations applicable to you in your area. And also do your own research on safety of distilling and process to be followed, if you do pursue distilling yourself. Distilling alcohol can be dangerous if not done correctly. This video is about sharing our first time using the unit.
![เก่งแต่ลับหลัง (FINSTA) - ส้ม มารี (Zom Marie) Ft. Punch 4EVE [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OOolBU2aC70/mqdefault.jpg)
This is the suppliers videos I refer to in this video which were super helpful.
youtube.com/@PureDistilling
Follow along as we use our Pure Distilling Distillery kit from Distillery King to make and distil at home. Learn as we do, that there are rules on what we will be allowed to use the product for.
Disclaimer: There are rules in Australia and in many places overseas for distilling alcohol. Please ensure you do your own due diligence (research) on the legislative obligations applicable to you in your area. I was learning as making this video, so my understanding of the requirements applicable here, may or may not be 100% right. It is your responsibility to do your own research on obligations and safety of distilling and process to be followed, if you do pursue distilling yourself. Distilling alcohol can be dangerous if not done correctly. This video is about sharing our first time using the unit and our learning as we did.
We haven't tried distilling again yet and the window cleaner is still steeping. Stay tuned for the future video, when I give the cleaner a test.
That is a great video that accurately shows the proper operation of the equipment and an excellent first time use, you nailed just about everything, maybe with some minor exceptions,
Maybe I could explain more about the temperatures and why it kept changing,
the thermometer is reading the vapour temperature. One of the most common misconceptions of distilling is that ethanol boils at 78.37 °C so when the boiler reaches that temperature the ethanol will boil off but this doesn't happen as you have a mix of ethanol and water so the boiling temp is somewhere between the ethanol (78.37 °C) and water (100 °C) boiling point, in your case the wash would have been around 18% ethanol 82% water so the boiling point was around 90 °C and the resulting vapour would come off around 70% ethanol, so how this still works is the vapour rises up through the column until it hits the thermometer causing the reading to rise, then it hits the condensing coil at the top and condenses, falling back down the column, the thermometer will be reading over 80, as the liquid falls down through the column and the packing in the column it is still 70% ethanol 30% water but it then interacts with more rising vapour causing the vapour to lose some water and the liquid to have some ethanol liberated and join the rising vapour so the new vapour reaching the top is at a higher ethanol content which has a lower temperature, this is known as reflux,
the reflux continues until it stabilises with the maximum concentration ethanol vapour at the top and more water returning to the boiler, that is when the temperature stabilises at around 79c or as your thermometer read 76c which is when you opened the collection tap, the condensed liquid dripping off the condensing coil drips into and overflows from the collection cup which feeds the collection tube,
as you found after several hours most of the ethanol in the boiler had been collected and the rising vapour didn't have enough ethanol to maintain full reflux and the temperature went up as the ABV dropped, closing the valve caused more liquid to travel back down enabling better reflux and the vapour ABV increased again therefore the temperature dropped.
The thermometer is reading the vapour with is directly related to the ABV of the vapour, higher temp Lower ABV, Lower temp higher ABV.
You may have already worked this out as this video is 5 months old, maybe someone will watch the video and this will help them understand the process.
Probably confused the hell out of anyone reading.
Oh wow Col! Thankyou so much for taking the time to write this up. I feel like this is personalised help for me and I really appreciate it 😀
And Im sure it will be of great benefit to other newbies who also come here. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
I thought that was really well explained. The reality is there is a bit to understand to understand the process right.
Wow!! Brilliant video!!
I love how you set up the water to not waste a drop.
Thanks a bunch Kat and Justin. This was a new one for me. But when I recently popped into the homebrew shop Hubby got this from, the owner mentioned that he does this idea for the water. I thought it was gold!
Well done!
Loved watching this video.
Thanks Carol 😀 I learnt a lot in this one. Funny you can buy kits so readily but then to find out when researching that there is only limited things you can use it for. And not necessarily what one would buy it for.
Great step by step
Thanks a bunch 😁
Awesome to watch a vid on this from where I was on my 1st day. Been a "few" runs since and I realy like the product, the still is a stillespirits knockoff, but the filtration equipment is very good quality. Metal always trumps plastic. But there are a couple of things you can do to help your next run.
1, foreshots-not "heads" is where the nasty stuff has the potencial to appear. Methanol, Acetone (nail polish remover) and it is produced throughout the run. X temp does not = X chemical. You just have a higher % of it appearing. Foreshots = Poison however. Its always 90% ABV and instead of throwing it, its a great nail varnish remover, cleans tools, washes windows, makes car engines shine and kills weeds.
2. Heads can be saved for the next run, as can tails. They contain ethanol which just bumps up the next runs output, or use on the windows.
3. Always do a sacrafical run using a new still or one thats been left standing for a time. Vinager and water. It scrubs all the nasty build up from machining lubricants etc to scaling etc. Some of the stuff that machining processes leave behind can give you a bad time if you drink it. I am not talking hangover from hell here.
4. Second run is where you get to take the quality product. The 1st run takes all the alcahol from the fermentation, throwing foreshots, the 2nd is where you throw the foreshots, save the heads and tails and keep the heart. A rule of thumb, collect at 80% ABV and stop collecting at 65% ABV as your going to be well into the hearts and away from the tails at this point. But thats very basic.
5 never put more than 50% ABV in the still, water it down. Your messing with highly flamable liquid, and the water will smothe out the product.
6. Watch "Still it" "bearded & bored" and welcome to the community of shiners :) cant wait to see you try a propper recipie.
7. Im dyslexic, so sory four the speeling. Spell check just put wroing words in and no one can understand.
This is awesome and so incredibly appreciated 💗 Im definitely in the learning phase and finding good 'real' advice seems to be pretty lean.
I will get onto those recommendations, as I still have heaps to learn. And I really appreciate your advice to help me and the point to those resources. 😀
@@Bush_Edge_Homesteading_Aus Reddit Firewater and Distilling are good communities. There are some brill forums about and heaps of vids. Basically, if its got sugar in it, you can make booze lol. Oh and essencial oils and that sort of stuff.
@@nellynelson965 Thanks so much 😀 Still have lots to learn, so great resources are gold!!!
Well done you.
Thanks Jane 😀 lots of learning for us in this one.
Thanks for the video. I was wanting to make alcohol for make tinctures. I wonder if this would be what I need?
I would recommend giving the company a call as they might be able to advise better than myself as a first time user. The product itself is ethanol if that helps 😀
We have been using this method with pure distilling for about a year now and love it, and we produce around thirty litres of 98% alcohol at a time. We make some for personal use and the rest for homemade vanilla extract and sanitisers. There are many uses for alcohol, including the drinking of 😊 I know it takes a while to do a bach, but keep it up ❤
Wow! Thanks so much for your comment. It's great to hear from someone more knowledgeable than me. 😀 30litres!!! 😳 Does this mean you do a few runs on the same day?
@@Bush_Edge_Homesteading_Aus Don't know about 98%. You won't be able to get much more than a little over 96% ABV out of a reflux still (like yours) if you do everything right. That's just the chemistry when distillation is used to purify alcohol.
@redleader7503 mine was 38% once I finished and bottled. Still learning when it comes to this activity. I was put into the StillIt channel lately, which Im learning heaps from.
Not quite sure about the filter idea.
Not usually done at least not by 90% of the people I know that do this as it removes flavor but being a sugar wash no biggie.
Good job 😊
Thanks a bunch Scott. I might do some research on the filtering and the reason behind them recommending that step on your advice. Still learning on this whole thing and yet to give it a second go.
What sort of heater do you use to keep you fermenting batch in the appropriate range? I’m looking at drilling a hole in the lid and sealing a fish tank heater into it to keep it at a nice steady temperature for fermenting
I didn't use a heater at all personally. In fact I don't for any of my ferments.
What you took was fore shots not heads. Also look at double distilling and doing cuts instead of filtering the crap. Also pack with copper wool not steel wool
I got put onto some great channels like Stillit after this and learned a lot beyond the instructions that came with it.
Nothing wrong with tasting as it comes off the still. That’s how you do cuts
As mentioned in the vid, I was a complete newbie and this was my 1st run. So followed the instructions completely to the letter. But I have learned so much since that time 😀
Hi Rachel. Just wondering where you get your bulk products from such as sugar etc.
Hi Wendy. Our local homebrew shop sells the bulk dextrose. You will find if you have a homebrew store nearby that they tend to be a good place to buy bulk at a reasonable price.
@@Bush_Edge_Homesteading_Aus thank you so much
Just use 8kg white sugar instead.