Trash cider vs water distiller

Please tell me you're going to give this to your brother to try for our amusement.

Chris Horry

Thanks guys, I honestly had no idea. And yeah, plastic jugs of booze, we don't get those here in Texas lol.

Chris Muncy

A rough estimate going by the wall clock would be a maximum of 1 hour and 45 minutes...

Leak

It has no thermal control other than the boiling liquid. Apparently the more spirit optimised versions just run at a lower power for a more controlled result. If doing water, it relies on the sudden temperature rise at the end to turn the unit off.

Big Clive

It takes a reasonable time. probably around an hour for that quantity.

Big Clive

I remember supermarket brand "beer" sold in plastic bottles back in the 90s, but cider has always available like that as long as I can remember. It started with supermarket brands (around 5% ABV) then about 20 years ago the whole frosty jack / white lightning thing happened. Before then, the tin-chaser's favourite would have been Tennents Super or Special Brew, which are rather malty lagers brewed to between 7 and 9% - the latter immortalized by the two-tone band Bad Manners. Nobody pretends they're anything but an alcohol delivery system.

Mike Page

Latent heat should hold the temperature of the liquid down while the fraction boils off. Just like a pan of water.

Mike Page

How long did ti take to run through the water distillation unit?

Chris Muncy

I think most of the trashy stuff comes in cans here in the US.

RonNona

I wonder if it would be any good for cooking? Maybe flaming dishes. Am I right to assume that your distiller works at a fixed temperature. I would have tested it at 80°C.

Xaksin

I might recommend fermenting a bit of malted barley and then distilling that. Your brother has familiarity with the process and might be willing to offer some guidance. alternately, YouTube's own StillIt channel is a wealth of information on the topic.

Bill Kerr

With strong oak overtones and a finish of forest berries and windswept grass.

Big Clive

Technically speaking, it's a shady area. That's why I mentioned the cider being duty paid. There are quite a few YouTube channels that do brazen large batch distilling in the UK.

Big Clive

Is DIY distillation legal on IOM then? In the UK this would be illegal without a rather hard to obtain licence, though I doubt anyone doing it quietly would have issues.

Jonathan Pearce

Vodka Type Stuff, they should put that on the label 😂 BTW, my music teacher says: Bitter is low-pitched and legato. Salty is staccato. Sour is high pitched dissonant and fast. Sweet is consonant slow and soft.

They have 2L bottles of cider here in Western Canada. I’m quite partial to peach cider on ice in the summer occasionally to break the monotony of beer.

The Griffiths Family

"Bitter note".....????? Are you turning into Ralphy?

Dustin S Cochran

If you can drink the entire bottle at one sitting, you *deserve* your pint of vodka-like substance.

Curtis Hoffmann

my word. alocholic beverage in a big ugly plastic "soda" bottle. thats so trashy im shocked its not done here in the US. Perhaps it is but I've never seen such a thing.

Zac