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Honest Gabe I see not "beginner" level of entry. You simply build yourself a still and take off after the alcohol purity of your preference.

I guess if there were a beginner level of distilling you might try for a high purity vodka using a reflux still. After all, the vodka production doesn't require the long, and technical storage in used wine or port barrels (costing as much as $1500 a barrel) in a carefully controlled storage facility where you rotate the barrels every six months or so.

At any rate, you simply can not make bourbon or any other whiskey is some places because the water has iron in it and iron in the water will destroy whiskey. So unless you are importing Iron free water from Tennessee you ain't making no Bourbon. Even if you did you''d have to adjust the Ph so very closely and just the right aspect of chaulkiness to the water to get the wash right. Whiskey is the high art of distilling.

Iron is a main reason why most stills you see are made from copper. In the US most the home grown distillers are moonshine or whiskey producers and they need an iron free still. It's also the reason why Whiskey is not made in NJ or NY State etc. Stainless steel is just steel which is alloyed with chromium (among other things) The chrome forms on the surface of the steel in a molar layer and that chromic-oxide layer (called the passive layer) doesn't let the metal oxidize. However, it will let the iron and the mash interact. So you gotta have a copper still for whiskey. But, making whiskey is a whole universe of it's own.

Besides ya need years and years just to let the first batch refine in the barrels.



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