On 01Aug2020 0257, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> I've never distilled... though in my early days out of college/uni, I  > did participate in some home made beer brewing which was about 95%+
 > successful (a couple of batches had issues but we realized you have >
to be very careful and thorough with the sterilization of the bottles >
and we may have not been as thorough with the batches that had some >
skunky bottles). Fortunately, the failures could be discerned easily >
and any given skunky bottle was only 1/48th of the batch.
We did that too, though a bad bottle meant we'd lose more because we
used 1.5L plastic coke bottles.Easy to clean, easy to seal, can take a
lot of pressure, and we found that the little moulded 'fingers' on the
bottoms held the sediment well, so you could easily pour from then
without getting too much goop in your drink. A 20L brew barrel's batch
filled a dozen of these nicely, and at the percentage alcohol we were
brewing at each bottle was about equivalent to a half-dozen cans or
stubbies of commercial beer, so taking a couple to a party had your
drinking sorted for the night.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>