Why is that, you ask? What Is a Thumper Keg For? Still confused what it does? A second or even a third distillation. Let me explain. A standard still will heat the wash or fermented solution to a high temperature. This releases the alcohol vapors. These vapors are then captured by the condenser into the solution called low wines. This is where the thumper gets its name. By heating the liquid again, the thumper keg sends highly purified alcohol vapors from your still to the condenser.
This thumper liquid is the high-proof spirit that all moonshine-lovers covet. This is why moonshiners and other distillers prefer to use wood for their keg. The more heat there is inside the barrel, the better it is for your thump keg. You will have several options for doing this.
Then, let it sit for about a week or two to gradually infuse these flavors into the liquid. Add juice or oils directly into your thumper — In case you want a simpler and faster process than the one above, you can also add liquid ingredients like juice apple, lemon, peach, blackberry, etc.
You can choose to add fruit peel, herbs, spices, and mashed ripe fruit directly into your thumper keg. Just remember that in the case of mashed fruit, you will need to add large quantities to impart that flavor.
Also, it can result in quite a mess. Learn how your comment data is processed. Figure 1, Typical backwoods whiskey still. Smaller copper pot in center is thump keg. Figure 3, Diagram showing flow of vapor through still and thump keg While offering obvious advantages over a simple pot still, how does the the thump keg compare to a more sophisticated reflux column still?
Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Also Usge is the second person that I have seen say that a thumper can be a bitch to get to work properly. Well I did 2 vinegar runs leak testing also , a sacrificial run, and the other 2 runs that I just talked about, and I had no problems with it working properly. I think part of the key to that is not over charging it to start with. Because your charge is going to increase in volume during the heat up stage. If you are not living on the "Edge", then you are taking up too much space!!!
Post by Usge » Sat Oct 06, pm Yes I went through hell trying to get mine to work in some kind of reasonable fashion including 3 rounds of mods, cutting copper, shortening lynearm, changing head design, etc, and multiple runs each time. I can only speak from my experience and the results it gave. I never overfilled my thumper so I know at least that this was not the issue. When I ran low-wines Others have had different experiences with them Post by wfw52 » Sat Oct 06, pm Thanks guys for your responce on this topic, that makes me feel a lot better usge about questioning if its realy needed.
I want to run some apple brandy soon and didnt want to blow it with out a thumper. But for now unless other insight enters the picture I think I will run with what I have going for now. I only question my collum I made 3'? I got my dtill from Mile High, and it is what they call the traditional column, it turns basically as soon as it comes out of the boiler, but I did add a 1' copper extension on mine, just because it is all SS and I wanted to get some copper in the system, and also because I wanted a thermometer in it and I was able to add a fitting into the copper section.
As for the 20 gallon copper tank you found Post by wfw52 » Sun Oct 07, am Ya OBX, the copper tank was a score , It is copper with large ends caps soldered on , think I could cut it down take the end cap and re-solder it on make a gal out of it. I just ordered some tri-clamps and flanges so I can modify both my pot and reflex 2" collums to fit the same copper bowl that fits my keg 10" mounting ring.
Prairiepiss was wondering why I wasnt doing that on another tread while back so good Idea Prairiepiss!! I thought about building a reflux collumn for my boiler instead of a thumper.
But the thumper was acctually cheaper to build because none of the plumbing supply, home depot or lowes, carries any copper over 1" around here so I would have to order it on line and pay shipping on yop of the high price of copper, also the coil I used for my worm was given to me for free.
And since I am also new to this I wanted to do it old school. Also when I first started reading this forum, everything I read about the reflux collumns said that they strip the flavor out and turn your product into neuterals.
I like having the flavor in it so I didn't want to go that route. This is a fun and interesting hobby especially if you are mech. I used to make wines several years ago, So since I already had a fairly good grasp on doing ferments, I jumped right into the deep end and started learning to AG right off the bat. I aam still learning on that one because I just don't seem to be getting much SG from the malting process.
Have Fun!!! You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. Post by wfw52 » Mon Oct 08, pm NIce clean looking set up obx!! My dad made blackberry wine many years ago which was interesting , hence this summer I had some free time so I dove into the home spirits hobby. Have bin reading some of the hybrid pot stills very interesting stuff. I think a lot more research is in order before doing any more changes to what I have.
I do like the idea of adding low wines into a thumper that pulls some flavor in to your drink so it will haunt me as to if I can make a better drink!! I cook my 10 gal sweet feed batches to F then let cool. It smells so good I wish that smell would carry over into the taste of my produced!! Recommended Posts. Pepper Posted May 25, Posted May 25, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted June 1, Pepper Posted June 15, Posted June 15, Ned Posted June 15, PeteB Posted June 16, Posted June 16, Posted July 13, Posted August 29, Are you doing a stripping run on a column, pot, or hybrid pot?
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