14 Comments

• J

  Comment Author: James

  Published on: Jul 28, 2011

  THANK YOU!! Its about time someone started a REAL SITE! Not only to sell kits but showing how to make them for FREE. AWESOME! I had a site and was building and selling stills for a few years until supplies got to expensive, and passing that on didnt fly! fUN WHILE IT LASTED. Thought I would throw in a thought. Maybe turn your water lines around and run them threw you column so you get internal reflux. It wouldnt take much and it does raise your distillate. Just a thought and will only take a few holes drilled in your column. I LOVE what your doing here and KEEP UP the GREAT WORK!!
  Again, THANKS A BUNCH!
  James

• KA

  Comment Author: Kyle - Clawhammer Admin

  Published on: Jun 23, 2011

  Patrick,
  Unfortunate we do not offer a copper still with a stainless steel bottom. I’m not sure how feasible this is. I can say that using a straight electric hotplate isn’t that expensive. A 1500 watt plate is all you need to operate our 20 gallon model. A 1500 watt plate operating for 10 hours only costs $1.35. (1500 watts x 10 hours = 15,000 watt hours or 15kWh. 15kWh x $0.10/kWh = $1.35). Thanks for the great question. I got to dust off some of my energy conversion math skills as well!

• PR

  Comment Author: Patrick Rochford

  Published on: Jun 23, 2011

  Would it be possible to manufacture a copper still with a stainless steel base in order to be able to “cook” on a portable induction cooktop? The use of an induction cooktop permits exact temperature control and significant energy (cost)) savings. Would the use of a stainless base on a copper pot affect the taste of the output?

• MS

  Comment Author: Matthew H. Stoner

  Published on: May 03, 2011

  Tenn. is a nice place,hope everything goes well. Please e mail me when you start up, may be able to pick up at new location. Im on the Wv. Va. border.Bluefield..keep the faith.. Matt