Customer Reviews for VEVOR Moonshine Still 3 Gal 12L Stainless Steel Water Alcohol Distiller Copper Tube Home Brewing Kit Build-in Thermometer for DIY Whisky Wine Brandy, 3Gal, Sliver

I am impressed with this unit. We bought it for our emergency stash, so we can distill saltwater if necessary. It is well made and designed.

Simple, solid and works as expected. Assembly was easy, use was straight forward. I would buy again and recommend purchase.

Bellissimo

Excellent value for money. This kit contains everything that you will need for distilling alcohol or even essential oils. I have purchased many items from this company before and found them their products reliable and well priced.

Am very pleased with the quality and ease of distilling Mead wine to Mead Brandy or just raising the "ABV" (alcohol by volume) of the wine.

What's being 'slept on' here is that this is by far the best value stainless steel fermenter available anywhere. Per gallon, plastic fermenters are about half the price as these stills and any comparable stainless fermenters are 5x the price. Steel thickness and quality is about what you'd expect and need: it's thin but properly sealed, so handle with care. The top has two ports that can be plugged with two bungs and airlocks, or one could be used for a separate tool like a thermometer etc. and I might fit mine with something like a dip tube for transferring. As a still it seems adequate but I'd run it slow since the knockdown/cooling/condensing power looks imprecise, plus the thin steel could warp with a big temp gradient. I'd also avoid the thumper versions because they add an implosion risk and really have no benefits on this scale. I'm sure you can distill with it, I just wouldn't expect anything superb or easily done, but you can't beat the price for an all in one entry to distilling. The thermometer placement is not ideal because it is in the boiler. It'd be better to have it at the point of no return for the vapor path, like right where the worm connects. That being said, with this still I don't think temp readings would really matter since you'd want to run it as hot as possible with as much cooling power as possible to knock down absolutely any vapor hitting the worm. These big stills would be great for stripping runs to create low wines for a more precise still.

Does what it's made for but the lid needs some extra support as it pulses up and down and causes it to have an inconsistent run

Most people have issues because they don't have a large enough cooling water set up to keep the cooling water dissipating the heat. I use a 55 gallon drum of cooling circulation water to the condensing coil pot and that seems to work fine. I am using this for mostly water and Alcohol (Not the drinking kind). It works well and essentially this can run all day long as we use Distilled water for drinking water and our pets (Our water is heavy calcium and Iron content so we distill then add back in essential minerals). Temperature is pretty accurate. Checked it with an external thermometer.

Good product I am satisfied with this product. Better than what I had before. Easy to use, quality alcohol producing.

I have been able to adapt this unit to run on my home wood heater / stove by adding an electric fish tank water pump, large water holder to cool water heated in distillation of steam in copper tubes in top pot, meter long silicon tubing to carry distilled water from the outlet to the collector bottles on the floor, heavy bar stool to hold water cooling container nearer to the height of the wood fire hotplate and of course glass bottles to collect the water and keep it from plastic contamination. I noted that you have the electric pumps in other models and supply silicon tubing in the kit. I should be possible to add these things to an order along with the other things I found I needed to add to make my system work automatically. I also found it difficult to adjust the tap on the input so the water did not overflow from the top condenser pot, but this might be overcome with a second fish tank suction pump to draw the water down to the recycling tank.