12 Common Distilling Questions Answered

These are some of the more common questions I get. Let's knock them down one by one.

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[Rubberduck-txbh]

Hey Jesse, would you consider doing a vid on thumpers? I may be playing around with a double-thumper for flavored spirits, a la some Jamaican rum distilleries. Thanks!

[grottyboots]

A cool thing about PID control is how the same algorithms can control something as slow as heating massive boilers to as fast as hard drive voice-coil head drives. I used to fine-tune motion controllers for large CNCs, and the same PID principles apply. Love your videos. Keep up the great work!

[scottclay]

Great Q&A Jesse! You have moved from newb to expert quickly (relative term). I remember your earliest post on the old HD forum, you have come so far. Congratulations Sir! Well done.

[TheGermanboy]

Would be interesting to hear more about effect of condenser length and copper contact on spirit. Appreciate the work you put into this hobby

[hick-a-rican]

To me, my first run was RUM! I was born in PR and rum is the No. 1 spirit there. It turned out GREAT Salud!

[jamesspinks]

I watched this while doing my second ever run. I think I’ll watch it again! I may not have been listening 😊

[stillworksandbrewing]

lot of great tips Jesse thanks we all love to talk about this stuff

[nigelwhite]

Thanks very much great idea I'm extremely interested in what you said about condensers I run my lebic at full wack that now sounds wrong so a video about that would be very interesting Thanks Nigel from England

[captainplacard]

Wow, Jesse...I didn't know you were from Appalachia, USA with the 6 fingers on each hand....lol...great channel, keep cranking them out

[maxpowervidmaster]

Well done! I love this kind of summary.

[peternilsson]

In your very interesting interview with the barrel crafter, he mentioned that the charcoal inside the barrels have the same effect as charcoal filtering. Doesn't that imply that a little bit of filtering could be useful for all kind of fast aged spirits?

[god]

My OG still it shirt is easily the nicest printed shirt I’ve ever bought. Still looks brand new, and gets more comments from strangers than all my other shirts combined (I wear some funny stuff)

[Njennings]

I've been using the same bag of DADY for like 4 years now. Sits on the shelf in the kitchen, so it gets pretty warm. Yeast is pretty hardy.

[klatlap]

One of the best videos you have done is the effect using a parot, i see so many pics of stills with parots yet i will never use one after see your video.

[MultiTut]

I find that the “shortened” answers (compared to the Patreon version) allows for a lot of information in a short time although not quite as in-depth. Great work.

[jeffcox]

On quick aging, I have had some success with putting spirits on heavy toast oak chips for a couple of days to get the color and some flavor and then putting the spirit into a small barrel for 1 to 3 months to finish it out. I start tasting it after the first month to see where it is and then bottle when I feel the flavors have gotten where I was aiming.

[Miata]

good info throughout, but what was new to me wis the condenser/time vapor is in contact with copper. Copper condensers influence flavor? Yes, tell us more.

[jjemery]

Great vid Jesse. Even though I've been doing this hobby for a while you still learn something new.

[lukejosselyn]

Another fantastic video as always. Love learning from you Jesse 🤘🏻

[mattgreening]

I really value your advice regarding vodkas