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One thing I've learned is not to use Volkov. It tastes like crap. Next time, I use everclear - it's not worth the $4. Also, the whole "removing the fruit" thing is a waste of good liqueur. I just throw all the ingredients for a fruit liqueur in a blender and liquefy. After infusing, I remove...

Wow, thanks!

Any chance you know what the cost of these are for Wisconsin?

A friend of mine is an aromatherapist (it doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever) and was wondering if she could try selling some aromatherapy-inspired liqueurs. No distillation would be required - everything would be done using commercial alcohol (bottled everclear, probably) and filters...

Where would I get such a pump at a reasonable price? I'm a reasonably accomplished metalworker, and silver brazing together some copper pipe in the appropriate shape would be easy-peasy. However, I've tried to avoid having to do this because of the cost of said pump. From what I've heard, it...

I'd like to build an activated charcoal filter for purifying vodka for use in liqueurs. However, I've run into the rather snarly problem of not being able to use anything that will leech into the alcohol, which does rather heavily limit the materials I can use for construction. As the alcohol...

I'm thinking about making some gin, but I'm told that to really do it properly, you want to run it through a still. Assuming I buy my booze from the store, is it kosher to do this?

I'd recommend using EaglePCB. It's not too hard to use, you can send the files to any manufacturer (including the extremely cheap Olimex), and best of all, it's free (though you're limited to small PCBs for the free version, modularization is not a bad thing.) http://www.cadsoftusa.com/

I'm probably less experienced than you are, but nothing you're doing would require SPICE. It sounds like it's all digital - just "on and off". Unless you're using some sort of homemade 3-phase generator for the motor, you should be just fine without it. You could probably run the whole thing...

SPICE is for analog circuit design, genuinely for things working over a very wide bandwidth. It's spectacularly useful for audio amplifier or HAM radio design, but not too useful for your purposes. I'd recommend just going with an Arduino. It's a less expensive, more powerful relative of the...

I picked some up from there. It looks okay, but it's not hugely fragrant.

I'd like to try making some orange liqueur. Because oranges are out of season and because I'm a lazy sod, I'm hoping to buy pre-prepared dried zest instead. Can anyone recommend a place to buy some high-quality orange zest, and perhaps, if you've used it in one of your beers, describe the flavor?

Out of curiosity, where did you obtain the bitter orange? I love that flavor. Also, is there a reason you need to sanitize the jar? Vodka is a pretty efficient disinfectant, and everclear - which, I'm told by a chef, allows for much faster dispersal of the essential lemon oils - is good enough...

Pin Grid Array?

Probably pointless trying to build one, then. I'm more of an engineer than anything else. :D

I've been wondering: Does anyone make a really big magnetic stirrer for carboys? And if there isn't, is there a reason why? I've spent some time tinkering with electric motors, and it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to scale one up to carboy-mixing size

All of those are supposed to be really nice. That said, you need not spend $6500 - that's darn close to "new motorcycle" money. You can pick up a secondhand 90s Honda for $1500 or so on Craigslist, and most of the less inexpensive models are supposed to be quite easy to fix.

That's because they were using Brita filters. Activated charcoal is about $1.50 a charge, and I suspect I'll get more than one bottle through it.

I don't know jack about motorcycle riding, but a large-displacement low-horsepower engine has been recommended to me should I ever decide to try it. While the big lumps in many "cruiser"-style motorcycles (Harley Davidsons and their various Japanese imitators, mostly) don't produce a whole lot...

I'd like to ride a motorcycle, but I'm simply not confident enough in my abilities. That said, I'd very much like to assemble a tube-framed street legal racer one of these days - the can come quite close to a motorcycle in terms of performance, but with the added benefit of a big steel cage...