January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 37m
English
My Arduino-Equipped Still

Jay Settle
AT CORSAIR ARTISAN DISTILLERY IN Nashville, where I work, we came across a 1920s copper still that escaped Prohibition, and we were dying to put it to good use. Unfortunately, it was missing the crucial piece that allows us to view temperature readings, which reveal everything about the distillation process from beginning to end. In addition, we’ve got a bit of a time pinch when the liquid begins to foam — we have to cut the heat within 10 seconds so it doesn’t boil over into the batch. Foam-over in a still run is catastrophic!
To prevent it, distillers either use a silicon anti-foaming ...