Showing posts with label ingenuity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ingenuity. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

La Fee Verte at Last!

The still is done! At this very moment, it is slowly dripping a fine smelling Blanche Absinthe! I'm really excited to finish my first batch and try it.
So I figured rather than post a long, instructional guide to building this thing, I'd just tell you what I used and let you do the rest;

8 Quart pressure cooker from WalMart

3 feet of 1/2" OD copper tube for the outlet

10 feet of 3/8" soft copper tube for the condenser coil

A plastic bucket for the condenser reservoir

A cooking thermometer

Various copper and brass fittings

I've been lurking on homedistiller forums for weeks trying to find the best design for my needs and this is what I came up with. I'd have liked to have made it all from copper and have neat gauges and doodads but I think I'll start here and work my way towards a more steampunk version. Anyway, hope you like it.