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BUILDING A HOME DISTILLATION APPARATUS

A Step by Step Guide

Building a Home

Distillation

Apparatus

BUILDING A HOME DISTILLATION APPARATUS

Foreword

The pages that follow contain a step by step guide to building a relatively

sophisticated still. It is directed at anyone who may want to know more about the

subject, for hobbyists, tinkers, pure water enthusiasts, survivors, and perhaps

amateur wine and beer makers.

The still involved in the chapters that follow is a unique distillation apparatus. At

the time of this writing, there is only one like it. Designing and building this

apparatus is the only subject of this manual and you will find that it confines itself

to those areas. It does not enter into the domains of fermentation, recipes for

making mash, beer, wine or any other spirits. These areas are covered in detail in

other readily available books and numerous web sites.

My intent is to release this document into the public domain in such a manner that

anyone may freely copy, modify, or distribute its contents. Experience has shown

that ideas exchanged in this way can be refined into much better products when

any number of authors get involved and make their own contributions.

However, the legal system being what it is, several issues can turn up in doing

this:

1. Any free document containing patentable information such as this is

threatened constantly by second party patents. I want to avoid the

danger that re-distributors of this free document will individually

obtain patent licenses, in effect making the document and it’s contents

proprietary. To prevent this, I’ve tried to make it clear that any patent

arising from this document must be licensed for everyone's free use or

not licensed at all.

2. Also, for each contributing author's protection and mine, I want to

make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for

the contents of this document. If the document is modified by someone

else and passed on, its recipients must know that what they have is not

the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect

on the original authors' reputation.

BUILDING A HOME DISTILLATION APPARATUS

To avoid these problems I’ve copyrighted the document but basically given

anyone that wants to use, modify, or further distribute it, with or without fee, a

license to do that. The license is in Appendix A, and must be included, without

change, in any copies, modifications or distributions.

You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it.

However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the

document or its derivative works. Law prohibits these actions if you do not accept

this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Document (or any work

based on the Document), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so,

and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the

Document or works based on it.

So to put all these legal issues into practice, as you should do if you distribute it,

here are the disclaimers:

Building a Home Distillation Apparatus.

This document is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the

terms of the License Agreement contained in Appendix 1.

This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

BUILDING A HOME DISTILLATION APPARATUS

Table of Contents

FOREWORD ............................................................................................................................ 1

INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................... 1

WHERE TO START?............................................................................................................... 3

WHAT KIND OF STILL? ........................................................................................................ 5

CONSTRUCTION .................................................................................................................. 10

BUILDING THE CONDENSER ............................................................................................ 13

BUILDING THE REFLUX COLUMN .................................................................................. 19

HEATING CONSIDERATIONS............................................................................................ 25

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER............................................................................................ 27

APPENDICES ........................................................................................................................... 2

LICENSE AGREEMENT......................................................................................................... 3

HOW TO APPLY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT ................................................................. 8

MATERIAL LIST..................................................................................................................... 9

TOOLS .................................................................................................................................... 10

INDEX ..................................................................................................................................... 11

BUILDING A HOME DISTILLATION APPARATUS

Chapter

Introduction

About Attitudes and Regulation

o you’re interested in building a still. In the US (and many other

countries) I guess you know that doing that is just not the politically

correct thing to do.

Even if you are just a curious person and simply want to know what’s

involved, you probably feel some reluctance about discussing the subject

outside of your own trusted circles.

The reason you feel this way, most likely, is because a lot of laws have been

passed over time that severely restrict the ways that you may refine products

containing ethyl alcohol.

Most US residents are also quite familiar with the moonshine folklore, high-

powered cars running shine over mountain back roads, and dodging the federal

revenue agents. So much so that many may feel that they are doing something

improper, or maybe even criminal by reading this.

Everyone should follow his or her own conscience in these matters. Personally,

I believe that some of these laws are so poorly thought out and implemented

that they border on being ridiculous.

A case in point. In the US, the government allows an individual to produce

wine or beer for personal consumption by using a fermentation process to

produce an alcoholic beverage.

The fermentation process however, produces a wine or beer containing

chemicals that are actually poisonous for human consumption. Nevertheless,

the government seems to think it is perfectly OK for an individual to ferment

and drink the stuff, regardless of the impurities it may contain.

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