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Beer and FoodSUPPLIES
- Beer keg,
- 2" brass coupling
- 2" automobile exhaust flange
- Couple of sheets of cork
- Mixing bowl
- a saber saw
- Fastener nuts
- Soldering tools.
Overview
For those of you out there who love to sip whiskey, it can be fun to think about making your own still and producing your own homemade brew. You can even impress your friends by brewing up pure batches of whiskeys with different flavors and textures. The fun behind the whiskey, of course, is the fun in building your own whiskey still. For those do it yourself people out there, it can be quite challenging. However, the fun is in the making and you can even make a whiskey still from a beer keg.
Step 1
Find yourself a stainless steel beer keg and cut a 7-10" hole in the top so that you will have a separate cover that can be attached. Once you center the hole, you can use a simple saber saw to cut it out.
Step 2
Drill 4 3/8 inch holes around the rim of the hole to hold threaded fastener nuts. These will allow you to clamp down a "mixing bowl cover" to the top of the still.
Step 3
Build a column adapter. You need to fit the still column to the mixing bowl, so you need to build an adapter for this. Take a 2" automobile exhaust flange and 2" copper coupling, soldered together and bolt the assembly down to the bottom of the mixing bowl. You can then remove the column and mixing bowl cover as a single unit.
Step 4
Make the cork casket. These cork gaskets will go on the bottom and top of the keg cover. This can be made from materials you can buy at any auto part store. You want to cut the cork so that it is a ½" wide circle of cork for the gasket and can lay around the hole you cut in the top of the still.
Step 5
Finishing the keg mixing bowl cover. Cut a 2" hole in the bottom of a bowl and pass the column adapter you made in step 3 down through it. Then you drill 3 cover holes that match the bottom half of the flange coupling and screw the coupling to the bowl.
