Copper is an adaptable metal with many useful properties that help create quality spirits. It is highly conductive, providing for precise temperature control during distillation processes. Furthermore, copper features natural antimicrobial properties which recent studies have proven can significantly reduce germ spread – this explains why ancient Egypt and Rome copper artifacts remain so well […]

Finding the Perfect Small-Scale Alcohol Distillation Setup Anyone interested in distilling water, fuel alcohol (where applicable) or moonshine/alcohol will have numerous choices of smaller scale distillery equipment that will meet their goals for producing consistent, efficient and safe production processes. Investing in quality equipment ensures your production will run efficiently while meeting all required legal […]

Alcohol distillation has been practiced for millennia. Distillation involves taking liquid samples and extracting specific flavors while dispensing with others, using different boiling points of water and other components in the mix to achieve this task. Distillation can be performed on fruit juice, mash or any other substance; it’s most popularly employed when producing alcohol. […]

Distillation may be best known for producing alcoholic beverages, but it has many other applications on a homestead – from creating herbal tinctures to fuel production and fruit preservation. Alcohol has long been used as an integral component of life. From providing nutrition and calories, trading commodity, medicine, analgesia, social lubricant to religious rituals – […]

Alcohol distillation involves heating liquid until it turns to vapor, and then cooling it so the molecules condense back into liquid form. This simple principle draws inspiration from nature–puddle water transforms into invisible vapor in sunlight before condensing back down at nightfall to form another pool of water. Our ancestors wondered if holding something cold […]