The “air” still - distilling as easy as making a pot of coffee 

I bought one of those a little over a year ago. The one without the timer. My opinion the air still works better making rum then brandy or whiskey

Works for me, drinking it now.

Guys, I can speak from experience, these things work very well. I actually used to test mine with a hygrometer, 184 proof That's not bad for not having a fractionating column. I kind of think that the cooling coil works as a fractionating column in this thing because those numbers are just so good. Then for anyone trying to run their lawn mower off the stuff, which is what I was doing, that 184 ain't going to work. You need 200 proof So just by yourself some zeolite, That's what they call a molecular sieve. Alcohol is much larger than water so the water will get absorbed into the zealite You literally just decant it off. So once you have your mash ran through, your still, throw a bunch of zealite into that jar and just give it a few days. And now when you pour that liquid out of the jar all the water stays in those little zealite pellets Don't have to throw the pellets away. You can put them in the oven and dry them out and use them over and over

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i been using this thing for sometime. great for turbo yeast. 3 pass with activated charcoal in the pot on the third pass makes for the most forgiving moonshine ever. no azeotropes will pull through. and can push it to pure with zeolite filtering. the exothermic was scary the first time tho.

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They should flip the daisy chain. Have it plug into the lid instead of the base. This would eliminate any chance to dunk the plug. Interesting appliance!

This insane! No no no not your vid but..... Last night I put in a save for later list 3 diff air stills. Hey thanks for the vid. Makes me more confident to actually get one.

What half of the spirit run do you hypothetically collect?

Heard a lot of people say you'd be better off buying a featureless water distiller and hooking up a voltage controller to it because the temperature controls are not very stable. Any input on this?

Very nice. If say a liquor fairy decided to visit you a few times here and there, maybe they could provide you with some honey shine and you could fortify some meads or wines Two good channels to take a good look at would be Bearded and Bored and Still It.

You might consider adding ceramic boil saddles to the pot. These are designed to reduce puking even when you fill the pot to the fill line. Some washes tend to puke more than others - carbonated washes made with grains (AKA beer), for example. The other thing that folk may want to think about is the ABV of the distillate. The lower the ABV, say beer -( made without hops! and perhaps uncarbonated) the lower the final amount of proofed alcohol. From a gallon of 12% ABV you can obtain about 400 ml at about 65 % ABV (130 proof) if you are not aiming for a stripping run. Use say 6% beer and you cannot collect much more than about 200 ml before you are pulling "tails". I am familiar with the Still Spirits Air Still and although that does not give you any control over temperature, theoretically, it takes about 1 hour and ten minutes before any drops begin to fall, five minutes to produce the heads one would treat as cleaning fluid, and about 40 minutes to produce the 400 ml at 130 p.

3:07 drop a little bit of corn oil or butter, it will keep it from over foaming and puking

What is distilled mead like? Does this work well for distlling mead or is it better for something like rum?

Hi, when I use your link to the air distiller on Vevor's site, it takes me to a water distiller that looks exactly the same. Is that it? I thought water distillers were no good for alcohol? Thanks

Now I want to distill water

So how did it taste?

Welcome to the dark side 🥃 It's definitely the easiest and safest still to get started with

Interesting, I tried the Vevor model but had a lead between the head and the bottom which allowed the steam to escape before condensation. Returned it the next day after thorough inspection to be sure there were no kinks or bends in the gasket or metal.

Stripping runs should go down to the single digit ABV %

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Love your videos but let’s not confuse people. That’s not an air still. It’s just a vevor water distiller unit that is like an air still. Still Spirits makes the real Air still. The real air still does not have temp control.

Temperature is irrelevant because boiling points change with elevation change...

The AirStill IS a pot-still

It is legal to distill in Iowa, hummmm.

Is this real life?

First:: Don’t get the “water” air still. Stillspirits is selling “the” AirStill which is made for alcohol. Second: You don’t have to change any temperature. It is nonsense, that you should change things in a potstill. Sorry - but this is “hobbyist nonsense. Professional Distilleries just run their spirits without any reasonable temperature control (on/off). I love my AirStill. I don’t any “rectification” with it. I am using it, to make gin and other botanical spirits. This also takes a bit the illegality (not that using vodka and redistilling it is totally legal, but it is not straight forward illegal).

There is so much misinformation in this video, I'm almost embarrassed for the producer. To any air still beginners out there, please do your research on how to use an over-powered water distiller as an alcohol still. There is a reason the OG Still Spirits air still is only 320 watts and has no facility to set a temperature.