Off topic warning...Penguin wrote:I understood that stills could only be used to make essential oils in Australia?
tasadam wrote:Off topic warning...
Son of a Beach wrote:However, please keep discussion to be within the law.
google "triple reflux still" and you should get a few sites here in australia.
quite a few are concentrating on WA (remote communities etc) but there is a few in Sydney too.
it pays to compare prices though, when i was checking for my daughter i found about 100 dollars differrence between two suppliers.
you need: 5 litrestainless steel triple reflux still, brewing barrel ( 20-25 l), brewing airlock, Z filter and carbon to go in it, packet of turbo yeast, thermometer (if it isn't included in the reflux still) hydrometer (to measure the alcohol level with) and a storage vessel... i use 15l foodgrade plastic jerrycans.
15 l is a handy size, as you need to filter the essential oil ( via the Z-filter) for one vesel into the other... normally you will get 5 bottles of 750ml at least @75%, so dilute that down to about 38% and you will have about 15L.
you cannot filter if the essential oil is above 50%; the carbon cannot work in that environment.
so, after distilling, the white spirit goes into one vessel, with water to make it about 40%, then the Z filter goes onto that vedssel and it filters into second vessel/barrel.
finsihed filtering, back wash the carbon, hang Z filter on other vessel, start second cycle.
after that, new carbon in the filter, change filter onto first vessel and repeat.
do that as often as needed to get the metho taint out of the essential oil; i generally do four runs, so one change of carbon.
i store my bulk essential oil in the 15l jerry cans: the lavendar essential oil goes on woodshavings, and the flower essential oil stays pure... if i want Rose essential oil, i flavour lavendar essential oil with plain essential oil flavour essences in a very clean bucket and pour it straight into the bottles.
that way my pure essential oil container stays taint free.
Australia where it is legal to own a still under 5 litre capacity as long as it is for either either water purification or essential oil extraction.
corvus wrote:WHEREDAGETEM??
Nuts wrote:There are some crazy laws.
They make *&^%$#@! out of everyone, the law-makers as well as the general public unsure of what they can do, say or Think.....
What possible harm could be done by people distilling oils? for *&^%$# sake
Is the damage once again to govnment coffers?
Heck, you can buy a bong in the main street, what possible other uses could That have!
Surely its not illegal to talk about this stuff though?
Put me down for a pint... (oil, that is...Tassie T )
taswaterfalls.com wrote:THey outlawed the bongs this year. shattered
Son of a Beach wrote:corvus wrote:WHEREDAGETEM??
I think the Home Brew Shops have 'em. I'll have to check,
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