I made a moonshine apparatus at the age of 15. It worked. Made
moonshine that could burn. It is a trivial project. Especially in a
country where condenser coils are easily available.

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On Mon, 22 May 2006 20:38:51 -0500, gfulton wrote:

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Gas will soon be $3/gal. I live in corn country, its $2/bushel. My car
will run on E85, that's 85% ethanol, 15% gas.

So can I buy/build a high efficiency fermenter and still that does, say 5
gallons a day? I'd run it all winter and use the waste heat to keep the
shop warm. Seen any good proven designs? How about one that uses a corn
burner boiler (readily purchased) as the heat source for the still?

BTW, I may need some quality control help to make sure its really 200
proof VBG





Karl Townsend



Karl,
The Mother Earth News magazine built an alcohol still back in one of
their articles about 20 something years ago. I believe I've still got it in
the basement amongst all the old issues. Do a google search on it and it
should turn up. I remember the guy that designed it was named Dennis
Burkholder and he claimed that burning the corncobs provided all the heat he
needed for distillation. Also found that putting glass marbles in the
cooling column enhanced production by giving the vapors something to
condense on, if I remember that correctly. Good interesting article and he
ran some engines off if it, I believe. Hope this helps.

Garrett Fulton