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Index to The Compleat Distiller
  • There has never before been a book published on the subject of home distillation that is as detailed as this.
  • Every aspect is covered, from first principles to a clear explanation of the science behind it all.
  • Every type of small still is described in detail, from the simplest to those incorporating the latest advanced techniques.
  • No myths, no guesswork. Just tested and proven facts and designs.

A

Activated carbon
   Activation
   Adsorption
   Cleaning used carbon
   Preparation for use
   Procedures to use
   van der Waals forces

B

Balling scale
Basic electricity
   Ohm's Law
   Heaters in series and parallel
   Voltage (volts)
   Current (amps)
   Power (watts)
   Useful equations
Bakers yeast
Batch distillation
Beer yeasts

C

Calorie
Carbohydrates for fermentation
   AldoHexoses
   Fructomers and glucomers
   Glucboat and gluchair
   Glucyclation
   Pectin
   Polysaccharides (dextrins)
   Starch and cellulose
   Sucrose, maltose and maltriose
Carbon, activated
Carboys
Cellulose (see Carbohydrates)
Channeling and choking (App.7)
Clamps (see Couplings)
Clausius-Clapeyron equation
Cleaning and polishing

D

Airlocks
   Blow-Off
   Standard

Alcohols
   Beers and Whiskeys
   Congeners 
Ethyl alcohol
   Fusel alcohols

Beers
Blow-off tube
Boiler control
   Fully variable
   IEC Regulations
   Multi-level
Boilers
   Boiler control
   Concealed element
   Direct heating
   Hot water coil

Coffey still
Cold finger condenser
Cold infusion
Column
   Column equilibrium
   Fractionating column
Compound distillation
   Designs
   Management techniques
   Operating procedures
   Principles
Compound still
Compound still head
   Liquid management
   Temperature management
   Vapor management
Compounds, chemical
Compression couplings

   Meads
   Root vegetables and Vodka
   Sugar based washes and Rum
   Synthetic alcohol
   Wines and Brandies
Alembic
Annealing
Antoine equation

   Hotplate
   Indirect heating
   Water jacketBoiling
   Boiling chips
   Boiling point, definition
   of mixtures
   Surge boiling
   To extract botanicals
Botanicals and Essences
   Definitions
   Enfleurage

Condensers, general
   Factors affecting efficiency
   Flow direction
   Rule of thumb
   Surface area
   Temperature differential
   Thermal resistance (table)
   Thickness
   Turbulence
Condensers, types
   Cold finger condenser
   Firebox/Shotgun condenser
   Flat sheet condenser
   Gloved cold finger condenser
   Graham condenser
   Hedgehog condenser
   Liebig condenser
   Vigreux condenser

E

Atomic mass units
Atoms and molecules
Avogadro's number
Azeotropism
   Azeotropes
   effects of azeotropism

   Essential oils
   Expression
   Methods of extraction
   Products
   Soxhlet extractor
   Steam distillation
Brandies
Brazing
Brix scale
Butyl alcohol, butanol

Cone protocol
Congeners
Constant load heater controller
Continuous still
Control box (see Power control)
Cooling
Condensers
   Temperature management,
       technique
Couplings
   3-hole flange
   4-hole flange
   Commercial clamps
   Compression couplings
   Couplings, ready made
   Square flange
   Thermometer clamp

Dalton's law for gases
Dew line
Distillation
   Batch distillation
   Compound distillation
   Continuous distillation
   Fractional distillation
   Steam distillation
   Water distillation

Distilling water
Dr. Cone's methods
   Method #1
   Method #2
   Techniques for the Cone protocol
   Temperature management
Dynamic equilibrium
Dyne

Electricity, key relationships
Energy units, summary
Enfleurage, botanicals
Enzymes
Equilibrium
   Equilibrium charts
   Equilibrium curves
   Column equilibrium
   Dynamic equilibrium

Equipment
   Design
   Fermentation
   Materials
Ethanol mol fraction/percentage table
Ethyl alcohol, ethanol
Evaporation
Expression, botanicals

F

Feints
Fermentation
   Basic biochemistry
   Basics of fermentation
   Carbohydrates for fermentation
   Dr. Cone's methods
   Enzymes
   Fermentation equipment

G

       pH
       Properties common to all
       fermentations
   Special fermentation techniques
   Sugars
   Turbo yeast products
   Types of fermentation
   Yeasts

H

Fermentation equipment
   Carboys
   Hydrometers
   Open fermenter
   Standard airlocks
       and blow-off tube
Firebox/Shotgun condenser
Flanges (see Couplings)

I

Flat sheet condenser
Flavors and scents
Florentine collector
Foreshots
Fractional distillation
Fractionating column
Fractionating still
Fusel alcohols

J

Gaskets
Gloved cold finger condenser
Glucose (see Carbohydrates)
Graham condenser
Gram mole (see Avogadro's number)

Heads
Heaters (see Boilers or Power control)
Hedgehog condenser
Hotplate
Hydrometers
   Plato, Brix and Balling scales
   Table of values
Hydrosol
Hot infusion

Induced reflux
Inline liquid management

Joining small tubes to large pipes
Jumper box (see Power control)

L

Latent heat of vaporization (LHV)
Liebig condenser
Liquid management
Logarithms
Low wines
Lyne arm

P

Packing
   Comparison chart
   Cylinders
   Marbles
   Raschig rings
   Scrubbers
Pectin (see Carbohydrates)
pH
Plank table, support
Plates
Plato scale
Polishing
Pot still

S

Safety in the workshop
Saturated vapor pressure
Scales
   Brix, Balling and Plato
Scaling up
Scrubbers
   Extractor tool
Seals
   NitrileŽ
   RTV silicone
   TeflonŽ
   Types of seal
   Home-made

T

M

Marbles
Maturation
Meads
Methyl alcohol, methanol
Mixtures and solutions
Mol fractions
Moles and mols

O

Offset liquid management
Open fermenter
Operating procedures
   Compound distillation (5 stages)
   Fractional distillation (4 stages)
   Pot distillation (3 stages)

Power control
   120V control box
   120V jumper box
   240V control box
   240V jumper box
   Basic electricity
   Building control boxes
   Constant load heater controller
   Dual voltage control
   Fully variable control
   Step-wise control
   Switches
   Truth tables
Product ratio
Propyl alcohol, propanol

R

Raoult's law for liquids
Raschig rings
Ready made couplings
References (App.8)
Reflux
   Reflux ratio
Re-hydration, yeast
Rum
Rumtopf

Sealing large containers
Silver soldering
Soldering, techniques
Solders
Soxhlet extractor, botanicals
Speeding up
   A worry-free speedup
Spirit still
Stability of column, supercooling

V

Starch (see Carbohydrates)
Steam distillation, botanicals
Stills, types of
   Botanicals stills
   Coffey still
   Compound still
   Continuous still
   Fractionating still
   Pot still
   Spirit still
   Survival still

W

   Traditional whiskey still
   Wash still
   Wok-in-pot still
Sublimation
Sucrose (see Carbohydrates)
Super-cooling, column stability
Support, plank table
Surge boiling
Survival still
Swan's neck
Switches

Y

Tails
Table, plank
Thermal resistance (table)
Techniques
   Dr. Cone's methods
   Special fermentation techniques
Temperature
   Management for fermentation
Templates
Thermometer clamp
Tools, basic requirements
Traditional whiskey still
Truth tables
Turbo yeast
Turbo yeasts
   Techniques for Turbo management
   Temperature management
Types of fermentation
   Single stage
   Two stage
 

Vanilla
Vapor line
Vapor pressure
Vapor management
Vigreux condenser
Vodka, root vegetables
Volumes of vapors
 

Wash still
Watt
Weights and Measures (App.1)
Whiskeys
Wine yeasts
Wines
Workshop basic techniques
   Annealing
   Brazing (silver soldering)
   Connecting pipes and tubes
   Cutting large holes
   Home-made seals and gaskets
   Joining small tubes
       to large pipes
   Making flanges
   Measurement
   Sealing large containers
   Soldering
   Templates
 

Yeasts
   Bakers yeast
   Beer yeasts
   Enzymes
   Nutrients, oxygen and yeast
        management
        pH
   Strain selection
   Temperature management
   Turbo yeast products
   Wine yeasts
   Yeast re-hydration
 

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