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Title: "The Prohibition kit"... This would be handy.
Post by: NeoTech on May 09, 2013, 03:01:35 PM

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/02/11/prohibition-kit-by-francesco-morackini/

Title: Re: "The Prohibition kit"... This would be handy.
Post by: vtsteam on May 09, 2013, 04:55:56 PM

Gives a whole new twist to the concept of Transformers.

In fact you could have it with a twist. Right out of the fruit basket.

Of course for years pre-70's the old plastic dustbin converted into a mash tun, and the spaghetti pot a wort boiler, never thought of the copper coil wort chiller as a fruit basket before -- might be hard to convince anyone of that!

Title: Re: "The Prohibition kit"... This would be handy.
Post by: andyf on May 09, 2013, 05:16:52 PM

Don't think it's a wort chiller, VTS. It's part of the condenser for distilling moonshine liquor. I understand they used to do a lot of that in NeoTech's Sweden, but " hembränt" has rather gone out of fashion now. Still (no pun intended) goes on in rural Norway, I understand.

Andy

Title: Re: "The Prohibition kit"... This would be handy.
Post by: vtsteam on May 09, 2013, 05:30:04 PM

Quote from: andyf on May 09, 2013, 05:16:52 PM

Don't think it's a wort chiller, VTS. It's part of the condenser for distilling moonshine liquor.
Andy

I knew that -- I've distilled ethanol as part of a grant funded alternative fuel research project . And was once a home brewer, way back before it was so easy.   Just joking that the "transformer" idea isn't exactly new.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: "The Prohibition kit"... This would be handy.
Post by: NeoTech on May 10, 2013, 08:11:32 AM

Well moonshine distilling or making "Hembränt" is still quite common.. most of us doing it though is hesitant of reselling it to other people these days because of new laws that can put you in jail for 3 years... Alcohol above 65% is considered a narcotic.. and well a open reflux column produces somewhere near 94% pure alcohol..

This still was just funny though.. minus the cooling coil / fruitbasket i cant see how law enforcement could crackdown on its configuration.. in parts.. ;D

Title: Re: "The Prohibition kit"... This would be handy.
Post by: Pete49 on May 10, 2013, 11:19:32 PM

Funny world we live in huh. In New Zealand its ok to brew as much moonshine as you want with a few brewing large amounts and all legal unless you sell it then big trouble.
Here is Australia its illegal however you can buy all the bits and pieces and even the flavouring ingredients legally. Made as per instructions its cheap to make and quite nice taste wise or so I have been told :beer:d  :palm: oops going now
Pete

Title: Re: "The Prohibition kit"... This would be handy.
Post by: John Hill on May 11, 2013, 05:32:22 AM

In Kabul during the Taleban era you could go to the shop and buy big bottles of grape juice and on the shelf right above were the little packets of yeast! :lol: