...... no not the photography kind. So, "hypothetically" anyone know how you'd set one up and what equipment and ingredients you'd need? *cough* -- Donnie "**** the world, it's time to fight back" Lambretta Series 2 186cc "The Shitter" Lambretta LD 175cc "The Chopper" Honda CB500R "Look out, Donnie's about!"
A pressure cooker and a length of copper brake pipe. Then brew anything and boil it up. You can also freeze the water out of your booze, though I don't know how much ethanol you can extract.
There was a long and interesting thread on this subject recently on uk.d-i-y - still on my news server here you go https://groups.google.com/group/rec...?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=ginger+beer#a0619b5ecfc51572
http://homedistiller.org/ resist the £150 water purifier still that are all over eBay/uk home brew shops. if you want a proper go you need a small reflux tower still. The absolute best person to get a ready built one is Mike at http://www.milehidistilling.com/ You have to import them as a water purifier but they make some reet grand gear. Had mine for 8 years and all I can say is hick hick. made gallons of the stuff, works out at £10 a gallon for 40% uk proof,
A bit more than that, actually. Isn't the 'old' system 185 proof = pure alcohol? I remember that spirits were always labelled as 70 proof when they were 40% ABV.
You done the conversion ass about face, its 80% proof US one can get it to 20% in the fermenter with the modern turbo yeast. With copper mesh packing Comes out of the cooker at 94% UK that's 190 ish% US! Out of the still no diluting, a bit of 2 stroke oil, this stuff will run the McCulloch strimmer no probs. lay it down in a demijohn for 12 months with some peppercorns and a few sticks of charred oak it makes a reasonable drink.
Erm, no, I haven't. 40% ABV is 70 proof on the old UK scale. I just got the proof measurement of pure alcohol wrong - 175 proof was pure alcohol, not 185. The US proof system defines pure alcohol as 200 proof. It's misleading to talk about '40% proof' when referring to a UK measurement, because you're basically jumbling up the old 0-175 degrees proof system and the modern 0-100% ABV one.
I'd like to claim a ginge but my clock times your posting and mine at exactly the same moment..... Incidentally, still OK for Friday night, 21 Jan?
Meh. I was approximating - my point, as you've clarified later, is that mixing 40% and the proof scale makes no sense. Your standard top shelf inna pub spirits vary from 37.5% to 43% or thereabouts, but yes, 70% rings a bell. The old farts drinking Lamb's Navy 100 were always accorded due respect.
I seem to recall Glenfarclas 105 being the 1st generally released cask strength malt, so I guess that's 60% abv. Nice stuff.
