You can distill essential oils or water in a stainless column by removing the copper column packing, but you may not like your results if you do this in a copper still. Copper is also considerably more expensive than stainless steel, and not as versatile. If you're not diligent about cleaning your still, you'll taste it in your product-and it's not good. First, copper is much more difficult to clean than stainless steel. Copper is easier for the novice to build with because it's a much softer metal than stainless steel, and more readily accessible.Īs pretty as it is, there are some reasons why an all-copper still may not be the best option.
Copper is better at conducting heat than stainless steel, which can save time on initial heat up, however, it also means equally increased heat loss. Copper mesh, scrubbers, or rings in a stainless steel column will give you the same results. You'll want copper to help neutralize those sulfur compounds and improve your final product's taste and smell, but you actually need very little copper in order to get this benefit. If you're distilling alcohol, then you have some nasty sulfur compounds in your wash that formed during fermentation. When you think of distilling, you probably picture the old-time copper stills. We hope to be able to make our kettles here in our own warehouse someday, but we're not there yet! Our kettles are assembled in China and shipped to us for our welder to customize the lids and couplings per order. These are not milk cans, which are not made to withstand the high temperatures that distilling requires. We have our own unique kettle molds that are exclusive to Brewhaus pots. We build our columns here in our Texas warehouse, but we don't have the equipment to build the kettles here. So you're not MAKING anything new when you distill you're just separating and concentrating what's already there.īrewhaus stills are made from high quality, dairy grade 304L stainless steel tubing. You're just separating the alcohol part from the rest of your wash (which is mostly water) and collecting the concentrated alcohol from the condenser. This is how you can get such a high proof from doing a run. Fractionation is when you separate a mixture into several smaller fractions, or components. What's in a name anyway? Our units are made to do a lot more than make moonshine! Our moonshine still kits (also known as "fractionating columns") can also be used to distill water, essential oils, and fuel alcohol. "Moonshine Still" vs "Essential Oil Distiller" After 25+ years, we still make the highest quality stainless steel alcohol stills in North America.
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All Essential Extractor series quality moonshine stills are his own unique design. Rick is the author of the book " the Joy of Home Distilling" and founder of the Hobby Distiller's Association. The oldest hobby distilling company in North America, Brewhaus America was founded in 1992 by Rick Morris. Serving the Home Distilling Industry Since 1992
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