Distiller is easy and useful.

[@MrJFoster1984]

Thanks Jon. Lots of love and respect ❤👍

[@tamahudson6186]

You are so cool and so talented!!! I wish I were able to come to your self sustainable course, I would love to take it. I live in Puerto Rico and want to start an off grid tiny house community with like minded People. 🙏🌾🌻

[@atulwani8726]

Hello Jon, I would suggest to coat the outside bottom of first pot with wet mud. This will prevent the vessel from getting permanently black due to wood fire.

[@lagoya]

Thank you Jon. I’ve been looking at distillers to buy, but they are either poor quality or way too expensive. Now I feel more confident that I can have one custom made 👍

[@skinmystic4228]

Thank you Jon, would love your take on Dane Wigington’s research.

[@teinu6431]

Many more lucky times brew distilling friend and well done with video Life really is whatever reality you make it good job!

[@jcor6689]

I love it! I love it! We will make one! Life is so good!

[@lisasmith1850]

We all need this course. Thanks Jon.

[@thierrywarot5792]

Thank you. Very interesting and intelligent !

[@Worlds_to_Explore]

I assume you soldered the joints/pipes into the drilled holes you made into the the pots. I love this! I need more practice with soldering. I have only done it once. I will be getting more practice soon even though I do have an new distiller waiting on me to learn how to operate it properly.

[@sirj3487]

Be careful if soldering anything that will be used to cook with. You need to use SILVER solder, not lead-based solder.

[@Worlds_to_Explore]

@@sirj3487 Thank you.

[@TheMississauga333]

great vid. curious question, in the old days i read some distilled spirits would make people blind, what did they do wrong?

[@macks573]

They drank almost pure methanol rather than drinkable ethanol

[@davidthegood]

The government deliberately poisoned alcohol in order to punish home distillers and drinkers.

[@macks573]

@@davidthegood Wow, great meeting you here David. I’m a subscriber to your channel as well. Thanks for the feedback, which I’m not surprised about

[@mohameddoccali7872]

شكرا استعمال الانبيق مهم و مفيد لصنع : ماء الورد ، تركيز و تنقية العكبر ، إسترجاع الكحول المستعمل في استخراج العكبر او غيره ، تقطير زيوت النباتات العطرية (الزعتر .

[@choiceoflife...]

Love from India! 🙏🏿❤️

[@micklbx9125]

Nice System sir to have the best distillation possible need 78ºcelsus temp can do 90º alcohol in 2 distillation ;) cheers

[@macks573]

Jon, need to warn people to remove methanol, which can blind and even kill, if taken in excess. Methanol is the first part that comes out during distillation. It smells like nail polish. It should be removed and can be used as a cleaner or disinfectant

[@dabara]

How to remove the methanol?

[@macks573]

@@dabara collect until it doesn’t smell of nail polish and smells of beautiful vodka. Throw that first part away or use as disinfectant. Rest is drinkable vodka. Suggest you get a hydrometer to check alcohol %. It’s cheap to buy. There is a calculation based on your wash volume. If you don’t understand what that means, just follow the easy first suggestion. Good luck

[@scottjackson458]

@@macks573 This was my worry. Does Methanol sink to the bottom or float to the top?

[@macks573]

@@scottjackson458 As far as I understand, it’s all mixed together. However, methanol evaporates at a lower temperature to ethanol. Hence, when you distill, methanol is the first thing that comes out. It’s a small amount compared to ethanol. Collect the initial portion in small batches and smell it. When it stops smelling like nail polish, it means it’s all out and what comes out is pure ethanol. To get sick from methanol, you need to drink a lot of it. If it’s mixed in a whole batch of alcohol, the effect is not dangerous. People get sick when someone makes a large batch, and that first bottle of high methanol volume is drunk.

[@bernarddeham4787]

@@dabara discard the first 50-100cc

[@amyb2253]

Thank you! ❤

[@MrSpacemoo]

Hello Jon. Thank you for your good video. Is this legal to do it in Thailand ? thank you

[@JonJandaiLifeisEasy]

It is illegal to make alcohol in Thailand but we can distill other thing legally.

[@kimcosmos]

you should seperate out the first 5% or so as a window cleaner. Because it is very high in methyl alcohol which can make you blind or kill you. It is called the wash because it slows down after it comes out and then starts again with the good stuff, That is also why you should heat it slowly as the methyl alcohol comes out at a slightly lower temperature

[@klyong2502]

How do you gauge the first 5%? Please explain a way to quantify this. Eg if you distill for 1 hour, the first 3 minutes (which is 5% of total time) should be discarded? Thanks in advance

[@kimcosmos]

@@klyong2502 you have to know the total that you will end up with. That is not hard if you do the same thing regularly. Otherwise you need a very good temperature regulator - which you won't get in that set up. After the first wash the drip slows. From memory its only a few degrees between methanol and ethanol. You can tolerate a little methanol but sometimes more is produced. So its a gamble

[@SkidMarkSmeller]

How many liters of water can you distill per hour with that distiller?

[@MsCaleb79]

Its banned to do this in sweden, but I shall do it anyway

[@mohameddoccali7872]

the distiller is sold everywhere. just don't make publicity when you use it

[@tamahudson6186]

Yes do it anyway! Who do they think they are to tell US the People what we can & cannot do with our own lives. We All need to stand up to them and Not let them rule or govern us! We have too much government & we need to get rid of them, dismantle them! ✌️

[@pepeespanol3312]

The more they ban,the more we must do it.

[@tjfrost5355]

@@tamahudson6186 AGREED 100% 💯❤💥

[@macks573]

There should not be any law that prevents us from making our own alcohol for our own consumption. Of course, to sell it is a different story. Any such law is put in place to create a monopoly for corporations. How would they make their millions if all of us started making our own alcohol? ... like I have been doing for the past 4 years 😉

[@Mavan0]

Can you use this to distill wood vinegar too? By placing wood or wood chips in the left tank and letting the smoke condense in the second tank?

[@JonJandaiLifeisEasy]

You can do that but not good for the distiller . Make wood vinegar from the normal charcoal kiln is better.

[@Mavan0]

@@JonJandaiLifeisEasy ok cool thanks

[@JustMe-gw3eo]

Wait. I thought I was just mindlessly wasting my Saturday on stupid KZbin videos. You mean I actually learned something? Cool. You have proven that KZbin is actually good for something. Great job. Hope they don't ban or censor you now.

[@Oggiwara1]

Lots of people did this 50 years ago here in Norway. But not that low quality. we kept the liquor that was more than 94% (94-96%) for drinking, and kept the low quality to add next time we made it. Then it became good vodka. And you can not make whiskey that way, since you skip the storage on the right kind of wooden barrel for at least 7 years. Also it is difficult to control the right heat with wooden fire to get a good result. The best is propane gas burner.

[@dogslobbergardens6606]

People have been distilling alcohol over wood fires for 700 years. It works perfectly fine, you just have to pay attention and develop the skill. Yes propane burners are easier to control, but then you're always stuck buying bottles of propane... and if you REALLY want controllability on a small scale, you're better off using electric heating elements anyway. Plus with electric elements there's no danger of fire if alcohol vapor leaks from the still, because there's no open flame. The point is, this channel is all about doing as much as you can without buying stuff from outside your place, and pretty much everyone can gather free firewood. As for whether or not he's making "real" whiskey or even vodka, the answer is definitely "NO." Whiskies have very specific grain recipes for the different types and require very specific aging, and a "true vodka" has to be distilled to almost 100% pure alcohol before being watered down - and you're never going to achieve that kind of purity from a simple pot still like this. But again... that's not really the point of this project. This is about making "moonshine" off-grid for personal use, not trying to compete with Grey Goose or Jim Beam :)

[@DrMandy]

You are correct about the whiskey (I am Scottish!) and it being stored etc. but in Thailand and many other term ‘whiskey’ is used to mean distilled alcohol - I have heard it used in Tibet for Distilled barley wine, and it’s used in Thailand for distilled rice wine. So Jo is not using the term in the way we use it in Europe. We would never put distilled rice wine (Thai whiskey) into oak barrels 😊

[@johntheaccountant5594]

Do you mean centimeters and not inches? What company did you use in Thailand to make this distiller and what is the price?

[@outsidestuff4867]

I think centemeters inch would be huge! Lol

[@rogathesarwatt]

There is no point of buying alcohol

[@rogathesarwatt]

Thank you Jon I will have my alcohol factory

[@rogathesarwatt]

Jon don't you have the online course

[@JonJandaiLifeisEasy]

Not yet. It is not easy for me. I'm so bad about new technology.

[@-whackd]

How about growing poppies

[@jesus.christis.lord.foreve899]

our water is so polluted and toxic I have wished for a distiller for clean water !

[@rheanellangca2442]

Where is the pipe for hot water!? Tia

[@johntheaccountant5594]

How do you make rice wine?

[@outsidestuff4867]

He has videos on it

[@HUNdAntae]

I assume like any other wine, except you have to wash the sugars out of the grains instead of having them in fruit juice. Make a mash, blitz it, agitate it often while heating it with quite a bit of water. Then extract your liquid and inoculate it with winemaking bacteria and start fermenting in a container with a bubbler top (fermenting bacteria don't like oxigen, so you need to seal them from fresh air. At the same time, while they eat the sugars and poop out alcohol, they also breathe out CO2 which need to escape from your container, otherwise the growing pressure will blow up your system). After a few months when it stops bubbling, it means you are at the maximum alcohol percentage, and you can start the tedious work of decanting, filtering, settling and clarifying your alcoholic liquid until you're happy with it.

[@dazd7502]

I don't drink but use it to make fuel for the car.

[@erickmorales4312]

Literally was looking at this two days ago

[@macdc96]

In Serbia we call it rakija

[@sirj3487]

40 x 60 inches? That's a monster.

[@mikanfarmer]

Centimeters !

[@ariusnguyen9136]

Hi Jon, You can talk about Covid vaccine, can't u? how is it effects on health. Thank you so much!

[@WhatDadIsUpTo]

. . . It can turn to career, turn to fun . . . Turn to a stay in PRISON in the U.S.!