A Christmas Joke for Distillers
I believe this is an original from Eric Stroud at Mohawk Spirits (Dec. 2021). Enjoy! Q: What is a Moonshiner’s favorite Christmas hymn? A: Still, Still Still.
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Does Wild Quinine contain Quinine?
Here in the Mohawk Valley, we grow an interesting perennial called Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium). In the late summer to early fall, beautiful small white inflorescenes form, and we harvest these to create an extremely bitter tincture. It is as… Read more ›
The Lonicer Apparatus
Adam Lonicer (1528-1586) was the town physician in Frankfort, Germany. He studied medicine and mathematics and taught at the University of Marburg circa 1553. He authored the works Naturalis historie opus novum (1551), and Herbarium (1555), which contained a special… Read more ›
Saving Water with Glycol Chillers
At our distillery, we decided to forgo using municipal water for cooling because of the cost. Instead, like a true laboratory, we opted for circulating chillers. Our electricity in upstate New York is affordable, so we only pay for instead… Read more ›
“Twins” Circulatorium
Medieval literature provides us with examples of distillation designs based on animals and figures. Alchemists or scientists of the time (notably Porta and Brunschwyck) describe a circulatorium to perform “digestion” of a substance based on a set of twins or… Read more ›
Spinning Band Distillation
“Spinning band” is a distillation process that uses a column with internally moving packing to perform a separation of components, even those with very close boiling points. Spinning band provides a very high degree of separation within a small footprint.… Read more ›
Molecular Falling Film Still
A glass molecular falling film still is an extremely simple apparatus that is useful for cleaning up a distillation run, performing a separation at a precise temperature, or (what we use it for) recovering hearts from the heads fraction. The… Read more ›
Welcome to Nanodistilling.com!
We are a real licensed farm distillery in upstate New York, and we operate our distillery much like a research laboratory! All of our distillation units are GLASS, and we have one-of-a-kind fabricated and rare apparatuses we would like to… Read more ›