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Welcome to the first MoonshineDistiller.com educational series episode. If you are thinking about purchasing a still, you have probably noticed that most stills are stainless steel or copper. This video explains the differences between the two, analyzing the pros and cons to each. Please be sure to check out our stills at https://moonshinedistiller.com

This is the first video of a series of educational distilling videos produced by MoonshineDistiller.com, meant to help beginner and expert distillers learn more about their favorite hobby. Hopefully you find the videos useful!


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Howdy folks, I'm Jeff from Moonshine Distiller. As you're looking around for new still you might two main types stills, copper and stainless steel. Traditionally stills were made out of copper. This because it's a very soft metal used to work with. And you also can solder it rather than welding it.This makes it very easy to assemble in the backwoods.

However, more modern stills are made from stainless steel as much more durable material and easier to keep clean. The main functional difference between stainless steel and copper stills is that the copper actually reacts with sulfides that are in the vapors from your wash. Those sulfides, if they end up in your final distillate, can actually cause bad hangovers and bad tastes.

You can get the same sulfide removing effect in a stainless steel still by packing your column with a little bit a copper mesh. Typically, on a five or ten gallon batch, just one pound of copper mesh inside your still column should be more than enough to remove the sulfides. With a copper stills you won't need this copper mesh, since the still itself will react with the sulfides.