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Dear god... Imagine going through this many unnecessary steps to make so little rakija 😂. What a waste of time and effort.

Fascinating! Thank you for the lesson. Viewing in California

Can you use just cornflakes and sugar water

Ty ty sir

The day Dracula made vodka for his Bloodly Mary's.

Do u take the plums pips out

Grind or file some grooves into the edges of the stainless steel stirrer used in the drill, should speed up the process of preparation ;-)

And now for the proper way to do this. 1. Place apples in container, can add more for a few weeks - add some brown bread. Wait till apples start to go soft. Then get a paint mixer or self made steel rod with a T at end with a nad drill and mix the apples to pulp. 2. Leave alone and wait till the top is covered by a crust. [ this depends on the temperature of your barn or cellar ] Keep measuring the sugar level AND alcohol content. 3. Then distill twice. DO NOT add water after the first destilling. First detilling run as long as you can. Second destilling, Cut off / throw away the start, for 15 lt still about a 1 small glass full - that is the poison. Keep destilling - you get up to at maximum around 70°+ alcohol and then it starts going down - yes you need an alcohol meter and the best are those who also have a thermometer inside. AND, you measure the levels from the drip-into a glass continually..... Cut OFF the second distilling when the tail starts to taste sour - if not you get sour brandy. Result should be around 60°+ alcohol. [ if you use cherries - the queen of brandies, at the end you get around 51° alcohol - no need to dilute. 4 when you have your last distilling at 65° alcohol whatever ... dilute with distilled water [ NOT the one for cars ] down to 50° - the temperature must be around 19° TEMPERATURE of the liquid. The final result in ° of alcohol is up to you. Plum brandy is never under 48° alcohol but in some countries people dilute everything down to 43°+ Alcohol . AND by the by, brandy made from apples DOES NOT taste of apples, same as plum does NOT taste of plums. One last thing, be aware of the laws in your country, never mind the size of still you use - it's what you destill that could be illegal and then hence also the still.

why not char bottom and top of barrel?

Hey what r u doing? No need for all addings u did. Nonesence

Mash infection? Never heard of that before

looks very good. Do you use plain salt or curing salt with Nitrite?

No mention of throwing away the methane alcohol??? If that’s a 5 gallon distiller please throw away the first 100 cc.

How much yeast did you use for 5 gallons ??? Winner coming soon I need an indoor hobbie.

sorry mate, all the varients got too confusing, phew😅

What do u mean with buying a barrel without a tap? I think the tap is very handy to remove the liquid, i dont understand why i should by a barrel without a tap, please explain. Thank u.

Hi, nice informatice video, would like to see how to make whisky. Thanks!

Hi, fantastic movies u made, i would like to ask few questions by email about it, can i send u a message by email? Thank u

Can we use almond?

When using overripened fruit (as you should) it is impossible to wash it.

Very good

Do you have to distill a second time? Could you not just bottle what you have in the first distill?

So glad you didn´t consume that. I will ofcourse not take any inspiration or make any slivovitz... :)

What is the packet? in English 3:01

You my favorite distiller of all I mean come on how much people are making actual fruit brandy like this very few

Thank you. I have enjoyed the process.

I love the design which obviously is proven as many very old distilleries still use them. I have never seen anyone use one of these with a flavoring thumper in between the still and condenser. will they not work well? thanks, tom

Good video! Thanks!

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should have shared the information on calculation the required sugar quantity for getting desired alcohol %

Thank you. What is about calvados taste without maturing in oak barrel?

the alcohol will definitely not be drinked **wink2** **nudge2**

Your equipment is amazing! I have never seen schnaps machine with electronic temperature measurement instrument. Keep up doing videos with showing new ideas and share your experience.

Thank you for video. A lot of efforts with an old barrel.

Thanks for making this video Recently upgraded my system and got a royal catering mash tun nearly identical to the one you have and was wanting some reassurance I had set it up right

Let's make simple things into religions in style.

My goal is to make good slivovitz

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OR you add a handful of bentonite clay (kitty litter) and achieve similar result. I recently made peach wine for the first time. It was refined even futher into a very peachy wht. dog brandy . Turned out well beyond my expectations and is VERY drinkable 😋. When I siphoned off fermentation vessels into a clarification vessel I had 6gals of a delightful smelling peach sludge remaining. I had pureed the peaches and the addition of pectin really made fine particles that would either escape or clog a screen bag. 🤔 So , I happen to have some 6" tri-clamp parts, ball valves , & 6" filter plates,etc ... and I built a big ol Buchner funnel . With a 2stage vacuum sucking from beneath the filtration and nitrogen gas pressure pushing it from above the peach material. I know most people don't have these things just laying around to build 1of these but dam if it doesn't work wonderful I was able to salvage another 1.5 gallons of clear wine that was destined for the compost pile if I hadn't come up with this. 1 and a half gallons is a lot of waste if you only make a little batch like me . When I say clear wine even 95+% of the yeast was visibly removed by the filtration in a single pass. Seriously why don't more people do this worked marvelously 👌

Do potatoes lose or gain starch if they are older? Thank You

Total alcohol should be 25-30%

Nice, but... Additional sugar, NO NO and NO. Why? Because, you said 5kg on 100kg of plums, someone could say that is nothing only 5%, but that is not correct. In 100kg of plums you have 10-15% of fruit sugar and you can get about 10-15 l of sljivovica. There yours 5kg of sacharose is 25-33% of all sugar in it. Additional sugar will give alcohol, but not the aromas. Fruit sugar will get alcohol and aromas. Because of adding nonfruit sugar you will get a tasteless sljivovica. Greetings

Did he say I'm farting because my medication?

Good man! Thanks for this. Clear and straight forward.

😱 the view is amazing. Stunning landscape 👍🏻.

Waiting for next info...

been meaning to try some sort of gin.

very nice setup

Alembic is beautiful work of art

Not worth it