StillSmart

I have been distilling for 18 months now, I bought a still off a friend which had been modified to be similier to the T500 I was getting 3 litres at 90% which took 7 hours, but a month ago it got a leak in the condenser and as I have no welding experience I went bought the T500 now as far as I am concerned this is the Roll Royce model of stills, I bought it for $500 New Zealand dollars I think thats 250 pounds...I discovered this forum while surfing the internet about a week and a half ago and I found a wealth of knowledge on here, you guys certainly know your stuff I have learnt so much in the short time I have been reading the prevous posts on here...cheers

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Glad to have you on board.

The Black Knight - looking forward to a good Avatar - "Tis only a scratch"

welcome to stillsmart and enjoy the forums

Welcome! It must be nice to live somewhere that our hobby is legal!

Welcome indeed,the more the merrier.
And as I am a recent newcomer myself,makes me feel slightly less new here!
I never would have guessed YHB to be a Python fan....
You live and learn.

Robert.

There are people who are NOT Python fans?

Yes it legal to make it here but illegal to sell it,when friends come around and taste it they want to buy some I have to say no as I don't want to be fined or have my still taken off me..

Blackknight wrote:Yes it legal to make it here but illegal to sell it,when friends come around and taste it they want to buy some I have to say no as I don't want to be fined or have my still taken off me..

Just a thought, you could keep a jar in your kitchen labelled "Brewing Donations" and they could make an 'appropriate' donation to your coffers. You could then gift them an unrelated bottle of whatever takes their fancy. No selling involved

AM

chill wrote:There are people who are NOT Python fans?

Yes! I too have discovered such cretins

Unbelievable

AM

Blackknight wrote:Yes it legal to make it here but illegal to sell it,when friends come around and taste it they want to buy some I have to say no as I don't want to be fined or have my still taken off me..

Go and buy yourself a box of Bic pens, sell them to your friends for $20 each

Your friends will think they are expensive pens but they won't complain when they find out each one comes with a free bottle of Vodka or Gin or anything else for that matter.

You are not allowed to sell your brew but I don't remember seeing anywhere that states you can't give it away

Just a thought

Welcome mate, the t500 is a good still but.not.the rolls Royce lol. You ave good values not selling it even to friends, we'll done :-). Me and the Mrs are moving to your beautiful country next year, can't wait to distill legally :-). She's from.upper Hutt.

I'm from the Naki she will know where that is....