A brewery is unlikely to sell you one you will have to find a company they reconditions kegs or makes them. you should buy your keg, DO NOT go to a pub and ask them for one, buying one from a pub is not legal as the kegs belong to the brewery and not to the pub. I got my keg form Crusader Kegs and Casks here in the UK I got a brand new one for £72 including delivery. Dunder / Backset : this is basically the remaining liquid left in the still after you have run it, sometimes this is used in the next fermentation to add in flavour ABV : alcohol by volume, measured using a alcohol meter, it can be calculated using the SG click here for a calculator Proof : the amount of alcohol in a product is sometimes referred to as Proof, 100% ABV (pure alcohol) is 200 proof, so a drinkable product would be around 40% ABV normally which is 80 proof Distillate : the final product that comes out of the still Stripping run : with a pot still its sometimes best to do what is called a stripping run, this is basically running the wash through the still once with the intention of running it through a second time, the purpose of this is that you end up with a purer cleaner product. SG : Specific gravity, this is measured using a hydrometer using this you can calculator your starting ABV from that you can work out how much you will finally get. Wash or Mash : the mix of sugar / fruit / vegetables / grain, yeast water and nutrients which is fermented to produce your starting alcohol. 1 x 15mm copper 135 degree elbow 1 x 15mm copper 90 degree elbow a stainless steel keg 50L, you must buy this legally a 2 inch tri-clamp also known as a tri clover clamp Equipment For Making the Spirits and Fermenting - Fermentation Vessel, I'm using a 25L tub bought from a local store Hydrometer Test flask Alcoholmeter, make sure it's one for sprits Wine Siphon 18 inch plastic spoon Airlock valve and rubber bungs materials for cleaning the still - 5kg sugar Baker's yeast water 1 x lemon 1 x tomato puree sterilizing compound vinegar dish soap - NOTE: making alcohol is dangerous and can cause serious side effects, you should read up on whats safe and not safe at ok just going to run over some terminology I have learned from the various distiller forums and community's.
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Tools - Hack Saw drill Blow torch heat mat for soldering copper a metal file spanners and grips Gloves (very important) hammer tape measure / ruler Materials for the still - Lead free Solder Flux for pipe work 54mm (2 inch) length of copper pipe, I bought might at a small local independent plumbing store, 1 meter long cost me about £24 54mm copper reducer to 15mm, got on eBay costing about £10 a length of 15mm copper pipe a length of 28mm copper pipe 2 x 28mm copper piper couplers 2 x 28mm to 15mm copper reducers 1 x compression fitting 15mm pipe coupler. you should use as much copper as possible, as the copper removes a lot of the impurity's from the alcohol as its produced. OK so here is your list of materials, I will be following what most of the guys in the distilling community recommend which is a 2 inch column, here in the UK that is 54mm, and its expensive to buy so I didn't want to make too big a column. I have both a pot still column and a reflux column now and they both fit on the same boiler, Now I will be repeating the boiler making process as some people may be reading this and have not seen the original instructable so I have to assume they don't have a boiler yet. Now it is worth having a column for the reflux still as you can use this to make vodka which can be used to make gin in your pot still later on. When you want to make rum and gin and other flavoured spirits you need a Pot Still as a reflux still will just strip out the flavours. ok lets carry on, so why am i making another keg still if I already have one? well its turns out that even in pot still mode the reflux still does not give enough flavour on the spirit, it strips it out due to refluxing too much. I know in New Zealand you can make your own booze and in the UK you can have a still that makes up to 5L if you have a permit. Check the laws in your local area, some places you cant even own a still let alone use it to make a drinkable product, check it out first. Making a pot still using a keg as a base for making flavoured spirits, this is my second instructable on making a keg still the first one was a reflux still and you can see that here Now before I continue lets get the boring legal stuff out of the way.
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