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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 29
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 29

by Mark Frauenfelder
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 37m
English
Make: Community
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HOMEBREW

My Arduino-Equipped Still

By Jay Settle

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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 ...

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