How To Lauter Your Mash – For Better Tasting Liquor
Why Would You Want To Lauter? “Lautering”, or filtering, mash before fermentation is the norm for making grain-based beer. Among brewers, it’s …
Constructing a Spirit Still and Gin Basket
Why a Gin Basket? My first few experiments in making gin proved to be a highly qualified success. It was drinkable, and …
Building a Valved Reflux Column Still – A Step by Step Guide
The Story Behind the Build Towards the end of 2017, I finally finished the reflux column still I’d been working on for …
Introduction to Grain Mashing for the Home Distiller
History Of Mashing Grains Into Fermentable Wort Mashing, the process of turning grain into a fermentable wort, is an ancient art dating …
The Thumper Keg Explained – What it does and how it does it!
While generally associated with the backwoods whiskey still, the thump keg, or “doubler”, is a very old design element that probably arrived …