Alembic Distillation - Beginner's guide /// Part 1

This is a beginner's guide - how to distill alcohol in a copper alembic.

In the second part we will seperate alcohol into fractions ( heads, hearts, tails)

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[TheToddFather]

That alembic still looks like art. Very informative video. I, going to watch part 2 now. Thanks 🙏

[tomguitaronline]

I love the design which obviously is proven as many very old distilleries still use them. I have never seen anyone use one of these with a flavoring thumper in between the still and condenser. will they not work well? thanks, tom

[gaylordeshiddik]

Thank you for using american units in all your videos

[zachbartlett]

Great video! How do you know how much bad alcohol to throw away at the beginning?

[ARCSTREAMS]

hope the show moonshiners comes back on for another season this year, i think suppose to start in november if they do

[henririon]

very good and very clear explanations and video. thank you for sharing. I'm not sure what still to chose? Are there better choice than other to start and? pot still vs reflux still vs fractionnating still. what is the "best" choice? thanks

[jlinden]

Did you construct the Copper tube detail with the alcometer yourself?

[platinumare]

Excellent video, may I ask where you got your alembic still?

[arturomateo]

I like it very much! But I like more the metric sistem and the Celsius degrees

[Romualdomgn]

Thank you. But is it really necessary to separate heads during first distillation? If you make two-steps distillation, then during the first process there is no need to separate fractions, this will be done during the second step.

[matteo_av]

Beautiful distiller ! Where can I get one like your and for around how much did you buy it for ?

[matiaslopez]

Hey! Nice vid, where can I buy that machine to destilate??

[badvibesforever]

How can we be sure that what we collected isnt methanol ? Love ur channel btw

[andriyzezyulin]

Does is smell a lot when you are distillng for 4 hours in your kitchen? Great video, by the way. So you have 10 ltr alembic and your input is 9 ltrs of wine - the out put 2 litters of 80% proof alcohol. Right?

[avisheknath]

I have started making mixed malt whisky (barley, corn and sweet sorghum), total 30L of mash. I have some queries regarding distillation. When alcohol starts coming... How much initial alcohol to be discarded. Any thumb rules ???

[ARCSTREAMS]

man that must have been the most expensive shine you ever made with all those wine bottles, what it cost you like 100 buck?

[kaseyjohns]

So I can put and kind of alcohol in it and cook it off

[BoiBoi-tq]

should have shared the information on calculation the required sugar quantity for getting desired alcohol %

[talal.]

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[Blueskies-he]

No mention of throwing away the methane alcohol??? If that’s a 5 gallon distiller please throw away the first 100 cc.