Well done Randy; great to see you running it and it performing well👍

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Yes, thanks

Thanks for the great video. The Thumper Jars work like a charm. Congratulations

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Just found your channel, it’s great! Thanks for your hard work.

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Way to go I wondered about the jars I love your work keep it up I’m sold on the jars lol

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!!

Randy, if you want the intense peach flavor that is also lower ABV, filter what’s left in your thumpers, and then bring up your ABV with what you ended with. Gotta be careful at what point you stopped the run as if you went too low you’ll get the bad flavors left in the thumps. If you stop around 48-45 you shouldn’t be in the tails too much and then mix. Really good flavors. Try small amounts first before jumping in with everything. Cheers.

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

thanks for the tips

Great work Randy, it’s running great! All the best wishes for the new year, from Australia

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! Cheers!!

Excellent Randy!

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Love seeing those thumpers going strong!!

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

cheers!!

This setup is awesome!

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

thanks

Glad to see it come together. Cheers

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

thanks Cheers

Randy, I think your design worked perfectly. I can't wait for your suggestions on improvement to the peach flavoring with a corn base. Congrats!

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Impressive Randy! Good job and I love your setup as well! (kinda envious...lol)

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Happy new year, Randy! :) Great contend as ever. please be carefull with glas thumpers. A Vacuum is the worst you can do to a container. with Thumpers you turn an open system into a closed system. The Vacuum wich apperas when the boiler cools down, can let the thumper implode. A Vacuum release valve, or a simple Valve you can open at the inlet tube of the thumper would help a lot. Water increases it's volume 1700 times when it turns into steam. The same happens reverse, when steam turns back into liquid. be safe and take care.

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

thanks for info

that is one hell of an apparatus you got going

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Got the same double thumper set up on a SS beer keg reflux (aka 'MUSTANG').

Congratulations on a successful run with your fancy rig. Wondering what might offer stronger flavors. Nice job!

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks my Friend

are you able to run the thumper jars on a PID controller? where do you put the thermocouple?

🖤🖤🖤

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

cheers

If you can’t get fresh peaches, soak the canned peaches in some 80 proof for about a week and add that to thumper jars…..

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

thanks for info

Where did you get that fitting on top of the viewglass, that's perfect! Love your videos I just made my first batch from alot of your info! Much thanks!

Randy Nice work! How long is your condenser and is it 1" outside 1/2" inside? thanks!

Great work Randy I have a single 1/2 gallon thumper jar, and like watching it work! I want to infuse some kind of flavor into it, but the jar accumulates so much liquid during the run I’m afraid it would fill up before it was finished. Is there anything I can do to stop collecting so much liquid in the thumper?

Randy, you hit a homerun.

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Cheers my Friend

Great video, I'm in need of a little help , what is the purpose of a stripping run and did you do one on this batch of mash. Thank you for your time and teaching.

@stillworksandbrewing

5 ай бұрын

ok a stripping run is lets say i have a still that hold 5 gallons and i have 10 of mash i can run two 5 gallon stripping runs hard and fast then when done add back into still run a slow sprit run me myself i us a 8 gallon still and i make 6 gallon mashes i do 1 and done

One question. When you still corn liquor, you dont make cuts of head, jeart and tails? I coudn't see the cuts during stilling using Thumps. Thanks

@stillworksandbrewing

6 ай бұрын

yes you make cuts

I highly recommend half gal jars. Qrt jars will fill up pretty quick during a run. Never use canned peaches. Canned taste nothing like fresh and impart lil to no flavor.

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

i did use 1/2 gal jars and fresh peaches would be best

That's very dangerous,🤕 if those thumper jars (smh) explodes you have serious issues coming, just keep 911 on standby. Aside from that nice still👊🏾☝🏽

@GoldenAura32

8 ай бұрын

It's fine. That will only happen if there is a blockage in the line, which you will see if it suddenly stops producing.

Randy , I’m new to the scene and was wondering what you thought of a milehi 8 gal with a 3 inch stack. Want to buy a still and not sure which one to go with. By the way. Great videos. Thanks

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Hi Tim, I have a mile high 8 gallon with a 2 inch and i love it i have not had any problems at all i think you would be happy with 2 or 3 column but if i had to choose i would go with 3 inch because it would run faster cheers

How how thick was the copper you used for on the lids of the jar to put your half inch pipe in did a good job keep it up

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

have to check and let you know

This may be a silly qubut instead of running your distant through the peaches. Is there a way just to inflavor the water at the end that you're going to cut your ABV down with? Like I said i'm kind of new and maybe it's a dumb question

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

yes you can do it that way i was tring for a clear drink i think fresh would be better i'll give it a nother shot

I was thinking try using a peach concentrate or another fruit concentrate. Or some cream corn!! Cheers

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Great idea!

Randy- can you do a video showing the hoses, connectors and cold water source? Thanks 🙏

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

noted

why do you add tails?

You'll find you'll run at a higher head temp because the thumpers eat a lot of heat. Peach is always hard to get good flavor. Did run of peach with fresh peach in thumpers. Ran slow (pot still) and barely had any peach flavor

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

thanks

Hello, I was just wondering when you proof your shine down do you end up using some of your tails to bring the proof down and to add more flavor?

@stillworksandbrewing

6 ай бұрын

I always use spring or bottled water to proof down got to be careful useing tails can cloud your distillate

@stephenbonaventure9423

6 ай бұрын

@@stillworksandbrewing thanks for the info

Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like if you somehow got a blockage in the condenser, in a worst case scenario, the vapor could back-feed into thumper #2 when in bypass mode. Am I correct?

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

the idea of the bypass is to bypass foreshots and heads around thumper the cork in the top of column is safety blow off

190 deg f while in the starts still collecting foreshot n heads that dont sound right? you running it too high and fast ,do you dial it back down?

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

my still head temp always runs at 190 and will finish at about 204

@ARCSTREAMS

Жыл бұрын

@@stillworksandbrewing if your head vapor is that hot i can only imagine how hot your liquid is and thus more water making it to your shine and you may also be loosing some hearths in the heads and foreshots going that high while still into the heads

Great work and nice to see your thumpers in action. Did the peach flavour develop over time or did it stay just very subtle? I tried whacking a can of peaches directly into some spirit and even then, is was just ok. Trouble with most fruit like that is that they’re full of water and not have a particularly intense flavour. I’m sure you’ll develop this set-up even more, so keep Shining Randy 😎

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Hey my Friend hope you enjoyed your time off hoping to see your video tomorrow yes the thumper jars worked great but was disappointed with the peach flavor transfer will work on it Cheers!!

@highly-spirited

Жыл бұрын

@@stillworksandbrewing yes I sure did thanks! And hope you had some time off from the hustle and bustle of work life as well. I could see in your face that the peach wasn’t quite on point, but I’m sure you’ll nail it next time.

Glad she worked, Randy. Did your canned peaches have much flavor? Real home processed fully ripened summer peaches from my freezer make the canned peaches I have in my pantry taste almost tasteless in comparison. Very nice rig you built!

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

fresh peached would be a whole lot better but did not have have to wait till summer

Try using peach pie mix in a can. Or apple pie, blueberry pies, in a can

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

thanks for the tips

have you tried taking whole sweet corn and grilling it and then making mash?

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

That sounds interesting maybe this summer

Randy, can you explain how brass is ok to use for fittings? I’ve always been told to never use brass in the path of the output. Thank you! 👍

@widgets76

Жыл бұрын

Modern brass doesn’t contain lead👍

@webcrawler3332

Жыл бұрын

@@widgets76 so it’s safe to use?

@widgets76

Жыл бұрын

@@webcrawler3332 as long as it’s modern then yes you should be. You can pickle the brass if you’re not sure. I pickled mine regardless, rather be save than sorry.

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

I think Widgets got it cheers

@webcrawler3332

Жыл бұрын

@@widgets76 Thank you!

That was sweet! Did you tails or heads of some of the intense flavor you were looking for? LOL I guess FlyinHI and I have the same idea!

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

i did use some tails i think fresh peaches or some peach frozen concentrate?

@rogerwilco59

Жыл бұрын

I have no experience, but is the thumper for extra ABV, and to give aroma? If so then is more of a Rich mash with peaches needed for flavor? Interesting testing ahead for you, I'm sure you'll find the right mix!

I have one question to give it more flavor could I add more jars

@extrazero1593

Жыл бұрын

yes :)

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

yes

Would you say this is a sour mash now because it sat for a couple weeks?

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

No a sour mash is when you reuse some of the corn over again and again up to five times I think. Cheers

hey Randy my name is Kevin and i have been thinking about getting into the hobby and any advice you might have as far as an inexpensive starter still would be great

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin the only thing I can say is it is a fun hobby once you start you will get better and better just learn from your mistakes as far as equipment do your homework

Take a diffuser from a hookah for the kegs. greets

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

cheers

Apple Jack

@stillworksandbrewing

Жыл бұрын

cool idea but if you like apples i have a video coming out in a few weeks you will like Cheers!!