"I much prefer my drink a bit proofy also. I use my mixer to dilute for my personal enjoyment.

Dilute or not. It's your choice. Just be careful with any likker that you gift.

The people don't really understand.

We are not handcuft to an industry definition or standard"

"In almost 3 years I have only had 3 visits, my extremely aged parents, my overly religious brother, and a pair of drunkards from Florida. The closest brick and mortar person I know is 5 hours away. There is no gifting as there is no knowledge. I go to the store once every two months to hone my speaking skills as I usually revert to dog speak by then.

I know what you mean about giving the unsuspecting the shine and they were to drink it at a fast rate, it could give them alcohol poisoning, happened to me once and it was scary. At 250lbs I have more blood then the average person and can pack away more alcohol but a 150lb person could get very ill trying to keep up with me. I guess I could be wrong about the weight, 250lbs is probably the norm in the USA and what was once considered a linebackers size can now comfortably disappear in the crowd at the walmart bakery counter."

"Rum center cut. dilute to 65%. then age with some flavor profile enhancers (chared oak, dried fruit, orange zest, black tea, peper corns and so forth and so on). Ummmm.

Been trying to get my new build dialed in. It's an in-line quad thumping unit that I'll be charging each thumper with Rum dunder. So it'll be proofy as hell and the distillate will get re-charged with flavor at each level."

"Some pics

The 4"" column section is actually a stack of three thumpers with overflow drains.

The pot a top the boiler is my first thumper. All of the thumpers work off a bubble cap principal.

The clam shell/ufo looking condenser at the top acts as a dephlagamator and will allow me to put the unit into 100% reflux and load the thumpers with liberated alcho with out collecting."

"I would love to hear a thumper.I looked on the net to no avail.

Just Me
I plan to live forever. So far, so good."

"Ratflinger,
As you can see, I have a buch of weight hanging off of my keg. As such, I felt like it would be really important to have the strongest, most stable conections. I welded a 2"" SS (schedule 80) nipple to the factory connector.

I don't have any tri clamp parts, but I am a big fan as that solution is very handy. Just not a good fit for my purposes.

This is the flow diagram for the Thump Tower. The larger pot below the tower works on the same principal, but is only a single chamber.

The dephlag at the top is a cooling management device that introduces a cooler vapor path at the top of the tower that will help additional water vapor condense and fall back into the top thump chamber thus allowing a more pure vapor to enter the product condenser.

The thing that makes this unit different from a column is that the reflux does not fall back to the primary boiler. The reflux falls only as far as the top chamber. With this process, the goal is a potstilled flavor profile that has a good crisp alcohol bite.

I have yet to master or become fully intamate with how much flexibility this unit has. For the sake of experiment (as I do not typically shoot for nuetural), on my next run I will collect fores and heads, then put the unit into 100% reflux mode for an hour or so and try to liberate and ""load"" all of the usable alcohol into the thumpers before take off.

An other advantage is that the take off rate is very very fast.

And finally,,, by loading all the chambers with flavored liquid and more judicious use of the dephlag,,,I hope to render a very smooth (proper) rum."

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What a great concept. Twould work fantastic for a continious still.

Perhaps if you had a drain at the bottom, and a refill valve at the top, you could easily recharge that keg and continue to use the charged and flavored chambers? Seems it would take a lot of mash or wash or brandy to recharge those thumpers each raw run? Seems each run would be better in flavor and more of the good stuff coming across. Seems to me, if the boiler were drained, or almost, it could all sit for several days till you are ready to run another batch?

Just thinking without any real knowledge.

Totally different concept of thumpers than I am used to. More like plates, but like a thumper also.

Do they sing? Thumpy, Thumpy, Thumpy????

Thanks for shareing."

The inside of the "Humper" an how the bubble cap sits down over top of the fill tube.

I have the easy still and am anxious to make some rum. I'm new at this and would apreciate any advice or recipes. Thanks!

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I think that should be your signature. It's a great saying, considering the topics on this site. :)"