u/AccomplishedAsk2637

Another Dephlegmator I made about 5 years ago.

Wondering if anyone here has seen these? Built them for an awesome guy. Lost contact with him. Was hoping he may be here!

Enjoy the view!

Built her mostly from scratch. This was about 6 years ago and things were much less expensive. I believe I am the only person who owns a bucketless worm. I built it by bending standard 1/2in around a pony keg then spot soldering the 3/8 to the bottom then back filling with solder. The temp fluctuations pictured are less than a foot apart. My ground water is about 54⁰f in the dog days of summer 37⁰f in the dead of winter. I prefer to only run 30 gallons at a time as the whole process takes about 6 hours with my new 4in x 4 stack bubble plate. It has a 12 inch to 4in clean out on the other side along with a bottom drain. This allows me to run it either on its side or stand it up. I have my ferments on a shelf about 4 ft above my setup. I just use gravity to fill it. I use a hellfire burner that takes about 1 to 1.5 hours to heat up. I mainly run apple being I have year round access. I juiced and froze 500 lbs of apple cider last fall and just processed that a month ago. Huge fan of Lavlan EC1118 as where I ferment gets down to 63⁰. The Temps also help with any of flavors caused by the yeast working too fast. I have a sand point pump that I get all my water from directly in my basement. It's also rigged to a reverse osmosis setup. I use the reverse osmosis water to make my mash. I get it to temp and balance the pH to 7.2 after I reintroduce the natural minerals. This is done with an inline liquid sold by my water company. I usually get a 12% mash to finish out in 2 weeks. I do not do fast ferments. They just don't taste as good.