{"id":7959,"date":"2012-12-14T05:52:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T12:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2013-02-05T23:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T06:43:01","slug":"easystill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/easystill\/","title":{"rendered":"EasyStill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been brewing beer on occasion for over 20 years, starting when I was in college. Always lurking out beyond the homebrew scene was the idea of making spirits. More complicated than making beer or wine and requiring the use of a still, it seemed out of reach. Being officially illegal didn&#8217;t help either. But the idea lingered on in the back of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Then I stumbled upon a device called an Easystill. Basically, it is a water distillation unit that can also be used to distill alcohol as well. The idea of spirit distillation is simple. Alcohol boils at a temperature less than water, so if you get temperature above 78 \u00b0C but below 100 \u00b0C, the alcohol becomes vapor, leaving the water behind. A still captures the vapor, cools it enough to turn it back to liquid, allowing you to capture it.<\/p>\n<p>The EasyStill does all that in a 110-volt tabletop device that you can store in the closet or garage when you are finished. The still handles about a gallon of mash at a time, so if you make a small 5 gallon batch of fermented mash, you are running the thing at least 5 times to produce a liter of alcohol.  The process is slow to start but does work. I&#8217;ve made drinkable moonshine. It&#8217;s not for any serious distilling, but for cooking up a batch on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d recommend EasyStill for someone that wants to see if distilling is for them.  If they like it, they&#8217;ll want to buy a real still with bigger capacity and full features.  If it&#8217;s not for them, they haven&#8217;t spent a lot. Most people getting into &#8216;firewater&#8217; have already tried homebrewing beer and likely already had all the stuff for the initial fermentation. I did.   <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starter home distillery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9844,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions\/9844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}