/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8377201

Here's a quick Paint drawing of the setup. Pretty simple, all you need is somewhere to heat the mash(still) and somewhere to cool it back down(worm). Inside the rain bucket is cold water, it'll heat up during the process so you need a way to drain hot water and replace with cold (we just use a hose).

As you may know, anything with alcohol in it can be distilled, you could pour budweiser in it and distill the alcohol out of it. So if you're a homebrewer I'll spare you the mash process and go to the final step.

Get your mash in the still and get it heating (we use a propane burner). Make sure you have some way to monitor temps (we have a thermometer on the side). once it gets up to 172F you'll want to hold the temp there for awhile, this is where the booze you want to drink will begin to boil. After some time you'll get it coming out of the worm. THROW THE FIRST FEW OUNCES AWAY ITS POISON. Then using a proof hydrometer monitor the proof coming out of the worm, it will start fairly high and then begin dropping. Once it gets low and the booze starts getting cloudy you can stop the heat (we save the remaining stuff in the still for a further process but its not necessary). We do this process 5 times over 5 weeks and then take everything we get and pour it back in for another distillation. This is where you will get HIGH proofs, and then proof it down to wherever you want to drink it, we choose 110p.