"This is what I am using. From what I have read, if you use a simple sugar/water
wash, you will get no Methanol (bad stuff) only a small amount of fussal oils
which can be filtered out with a carbon filter."

"The fore shots are in beer and wine anyway. The tails also. From my experience too much is made of fores being the cause of hangovers.

My thought is hangover is caused by drinking too much! Too simple to be true. It would wonderful if we could drink till we drop with no hangover.

I've tried many prevention and next morning treatments with no real improvement.

Drinking A lot of water while in indulging helps a lot and after. It's just a fantasy to drink too much with no problems, the piper comes reguardless.

Anyway"

"Would also like to add another thought since I was browsing different distilling forums and found one that seems dead set against the use of the Amazing Still and pretty much won't even allow discussions on it or any plastics in distilling. ""We don't know enough about plastics"", I believe was the reason.

Here's a HDPE chemical resistance chart.

http://www.ineos-op.com/jscript...cal_resistance_guide.pdf

Your standard food grade plastic pails and such are marked on the bottom as 2 HDPE. According to the chart, HDPE performs ""Satisfactory"" on any of the alcohols one would be dealing with and within the temperatures listed on the chart when operating an Amazing Still.

I don't yet know the type of plastic the fermenter bucket is made from but it's always cool anyway and made for fermenting so I don't see any possible issue of any plastics in the Amazing Still if one follows directions and doesn't get out of the heat settings and makes sure to use food grade HDPE."

Is it not a submersible heater? How are people getting shocked?

"

So how do you go about getting just the hearts from your Amazing Still? I was thinking maybe sopping up the first bit of condensation drops with a paper towel?"

"I would like to see Brewhaus carry the Better-Bottle.com line of PET carboys. I would buy from them if it available but I don't see them on the site. I think this bottle would make a much better Amazing Still than a fermenter bucket...



So I ordered one from elsewhere to try my idea. Looks like the stopper with the heater wire will fit the hole in top. I plan to cut the carboy at the edge of the taper near the top where it goes from flat to just starting the round so the cut-off top portion will fit into and rest in the bottom portion by that ""shelf"" at the bottom of that flat area. It will have a conical area in the top for condensate to run down the sides. Should be much faster than a fermenter bucket. PET material should also be more widely acceptable to those with fears of using permeable plastics in the distillation process."

"Yes if I'm correct, most of the controversy surrounds the water bottles made in China? I didn't intend to imply your fermenter buckets were not safe. It's just that a whole lot of people are ""unsure"" and bash the Amazing Still because of it. My only gripe about the AS is not being able to get the production rates as the directions say. I think my temps are good but I'm only getting about one pint per 24 hours.

According to the Better Bottle advertising, the plasticisers and such are not present in their PET that is common of other plastics. I would personally know if there were plasticisers present in the Brewhaus fermenter bucket if it were being leached into the distillate since I am hyper sensitive to plasticisers from making soft plastic fishing lures years ago. Just a little and I would know!

The end product I get from the AS using the Prestige Turbo Pure 48 is excellent. I have had alot worse in name brand vodka's. Just wish I could get it faster! I have an acrylic dome on order that I'm going to try and form the fermenter lid over with a heat gun. I would need three AS's to keep up with my personal needs along with a couple of others at the current rate. But I guess that's good for Brewhaus

I like doing business with one place if possible and have gotten great service from Brewhaus. Still think you should give the Better Bottle a look as for offering it, if for nothing else an addition to your already great products."

A little over four hours in. It's very cool to see all the condensate collecting on the lid and running off to the sides and down into the bottom. I've got a suspicion that the thick glass is a better insulator than plastic and is holding in the heat well. Also should note I do not have the bung forced into the bottle neck but just sitting there. If any pressure was to build up it could easily go out around the bung rather than blowing the lid out but I haven't noticed any pressure. I didn't change the heater temp so it's keeping the wash at 113F but the collection is way faster.