Mike & Jerry Build A Unique 13ft Column Still To Maximise Flavour | Moonshiners 

The ole thickness of the wall. Get ya everytime

Someone who take the time in making sure it fits nicely and looks good he takes pride in his work and loves it

Poor Jerry always being pestered and doubted by Mike. He always finds a solution if you give him the time and support.

I agree with Jerry measure Twice, cut once. The more precise you are with your work the less problems in the future.

Who else be taking late night dumps 🚽 and be watchin these moonshine videos 🤣🤣??

It annoys me so much to see mark act so smug when Jerry’s measurements weren’t correct. Meanwhile, he’s being his usual self standing around, doing nothing and being clueless

I design oil distillation columns. You have to make the trays (or “plates” as they say) smaller in diameter than the inner diameter of the vessel. You then have two ways of making it a snug fit. Either spring rings which are the same inner diameter of the vessel that sits below the trays, or make the trays out of two plates with a graphite rope o-ring type seal. You can then slide either of these in, and either the spring or the tape makes the seal.

That still column is bad ass. I wish I could make this type of stuff to sell. Lol. I would love getting to do these kinds of builds all the time.

That's a fine piece of equipment right there, was really hoping to see it running though

As a thirty year welder pipe fitter that’s a pretty good looking piece of equipment especially for the first one built

The best team on the show. Patient, funny, knowledgeable, genuine and confident. The recipe for victory. Two fellas I'd have a drink with... My family member back in the early 1900's was a major moonshiner in NC, Mack Rigsbee, my mothers great grand father. His home is considered a historical landmark. The Rigsbee rock home in Hillsborough, NC. I Live In the Burlington area, and visited the estate. What an experience. It once had an underground passage from the garage to the pool. And also through nightly prohibition parties. So unfortunately my great, great grandfather was arrested for making alcohol and spent the rest of his life on a chain gang building and rebuilding railroad tracks till the day he died.

Thats a very refined form of art. Beautiful

He really paid attention in chemistry

This is SO not "backwoods moonshine", and I mean that as a compliment. This the setup high-volume and high end rum distillers use. Pretending these entrepreneurs are backwoods county boys when they bring this level of expertise to the table is pure marketing.

13 plates, yeah this show is apart of the 13families who own your mind and entertainment

That's note a backwoods still, that thing is an engineering marvel.

If it don't work...it would make one HELL of a bong!

" Your so damn smart your stupid" my boss didn't find that funny

5:35 why not cut a round piece of wood to the dimension you need, drill four holes for the bubbler pipes. Then hammer the circumference to increase the lip length, hence reducing the diameter. Or cut the column to the height required and solder the plate to the top and bottom.

I'd be shocked is Jerry isn't an engineer. He's got more going on upstairs than he let's on.

Mike and Jerry are the Wario brothers of moonshine, they’re innovative but their schemes usually fall flat due to being over complicated or from Mike’s greed

How are these guys after giving each other covid? That episode was insane lol sharing drinks while talking about having no smell or taste then swigging out of the bottle they later poured for the rest of the bar... What an episode 😆😆😆🤦‍♂️

I keep coming to this ... I'll one day make moonshine at home

a white claw lmao 7:15

When I look at the comments, i picture everyone sounding country

Looks like a funky totem pole 😂

Boiler plates in a reflux column... it does not impart flavor, it is good at making clear flavorless shine of a high proof.

The ad lol 😂 lmao

THIS IS THE TICKET SON.

These guys are like Bert and Ernie

2:45 as someone who works with "numbers" i'd like to triple check all my measurements are right before we waste material.

it is so cool to see how it all works!!!..Better yet would love to be out there giving them a hand, and maybe come home with a jar!! I'm not sure if the limestone water here would work?

I miss this show

you could have taken a little off each bubbler I stead of increasing the housing and getting loads more copper

Literally a steampunk still.

need more bolts holding each section together.. it will let too much pressure out. once the pressure drops, so does the temperature.

not paying attention to the difference between ID and OD will get'cha every time ;)

Jerry is an engineer. He has a PHD in engineering from the University of life! This man is the smartest guy on this show.

Interesting video 🙂

Jerry is a modern engineer.

08:50 I had never heard these idioms til now; “sexy as socks on a rooster or sexy as my next ex-wife”

Damn. Just take the edge of the bubbler plates against a vise tappa tap tapparoo. Engineers make blueprints like that all the time. Line on line with out material thickness taken into account

Heat up the bigger of the fitted pipes. Hammer it, heat and repeat until sealed.

This aint for max flavour, its for minimal flavour, neutral spirit. For max flavour you want something less efficient. I do rum in a stock pot still. Just an inch and a half of pipe width tapering down to 3/4, then a worm. No thumper, but I may add one. That said, these fellas did some beautiful copper work, I am jealous of that. I like the sight glasses, but it'd be a shame to lose such a big run to a burst mason jar.

Me- "what's the most expensive way to probably blow myself up?" These guys-

Instead of buying more copper they coould have made the caps smaller

"Sexy as socks on a rooster" lmao

They could have grounded the base edges some… would save a lot

Good luck cleaning it out 😊 also I hope the realize there at risk for explosion if there pot isn't thick enough 💥💥💥💥

Shit man something that big you know how much those things are worth. Honestly they could make money just build it these things and selling them.

Made a 5 bottle tall Percolated Gatorade bong in high school, worked just like that. Mhm

This is how oil refining works

“That Thing is as sexy as my next Ex-Wife“ 😂😂😂😂

I'd loved to " Taste" that " Shine"!! Country Boy " Genius's"!!. D.

Now that is great Craftsmanship.

Nothing against Daniel but I think Jerry is the better partner. Guy can build anything

I knew these guys weren’t geniuses... but they don’t even know how to use a hammer.

Falcon heavy

Dam I want to see that in operation

I wonder if they coordinated their outfits

There one green shirt away from being the Mario bros

This column still seems exactly like a burner column where crude oil is turned into different grades of gasoline.

I would so love this, working against the law, Engineering, fabrication, and making some booze. I need out of England and live life like this.

Dammit...they showed the making of the bubble plates, but nothing really on the side jars. Can anyone here link me to the info on how those flavour infusion jars are engineered? Thanks.

Norwegian Moonshine is 96%

Theres no down commer on the plate? Hows the water get back down the column

i dont know but that sure looks like a helluva lot of solder in that rig wont that be kinda bad for ya ?

I'm surprised they don't braze the copper instead of soldering it. Would make better seals.

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't there supposed to be a way for the water to fall back down through the plates?

Measure twice, cut once

I'm a tinsmith. I used to put on tin roofs, but now do mostly copper work. Bay windows, and flat porches, copper gutters and such. That is a mistake you will only make once. Could have been worse. Only lost a sheet, and you got a nice big scrap for something else.

Diameter - wall = chamber diameter

My dad always says measure twice cut once

There is trespassing and then there is trespassing

In Chemistry we call it a Reflux still.

I have to turn the captions on to understand what they are saying...

all mike does is complain lmao

Someone put a lot of money I to this

spend a little time now to save a lot of time later

Copper is not only pretty, it has strong antimicrobial properties and most things can’t stick to it even very tacky substances

This equipment does not maximize flavor, instead it maximizes a high percentage alcohol coming off the still in one run. Some flavor gets taken away when you effectively have multiple distillations. You can get a more neutral spirit, and you might like the taste of that more, it might be smoother, but you do take away some good and bad flavors with that process. Maybe they have a special gin basket technique to add flavor as it goes up. Most spirits on the market are at least double distilled, and a lot of big distilleries use plates in large column stills. Many even use a reflux still which pre-condenses vapor so it drops down and gets distilled on the plates again, before making its way out the final condenser. Also called a dephlagmator.

“As sexy as socks on a rooster” ummm what?

Episode and season?

I’m pretty sure that if nether one of them cared about the math and measurements in this build they’d probably end up building a bomb😂

i can't believe these hillbillys could come up with such a thing. but it would work. that would make a legit column still. i know its all fake and for show but these guys know what they are doing

Are the caps oversized and just floating on the exhaust?

Moonshiners is just squidbillies the movie

Am I the only person who sees there’s a lack of down comers

High proof, minimal flavor.

Thats it build expesive still at take it and leave it in the woods.man cant imagine finding something like that. Thats alot of scrap copper thats money.because a poor man finding that its gone

200 proof

These guys have been legit tax payin' booze makers from after the 1st season. Ain't no way they all could keep on keepin' on once they got spilled out on discovery channel. Still love the pre-fabricated drama. Gives you a good idear what the ol days was like.

Itsa me mario

Boomhauer

Since when did Super Mario make moonshine?

Shame columns reduce flavour not enhance it.

Dont mix your metals lads

How many hillbilly’s you know that wear an Apple Watch?

It makes more pure alcohol

Why does that fool keep on calling the other grown man 'son'