Customer Reviews for VEVOR Moonshine Still 5 Gal Water Alcohol Distiller Brewing Kit Stainless Steel

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.

Excellent product! Makes water fresh with .0 particulates and runs on electricity from solar which makes it less costly.

THIS ITEM IS ILLEGAL - SO IT IS USED TO MAKE OIL OF FLOWERS, MY GOAL IS TO HAVE ROSE WATER FOR STATIONARY, FOR THOSE WHO MEAN SOMETHING SPECIAL TO YOU= LOTS OF U-TUBE INFOW/THIS ITEM - THE ITEM IS EXCELLENT AND YOU MY HAVE TO HAVE A LARGER ONE IF YOU LACK CLASS- I WANT QUALITY NOT QUANIiTY

The copper tube out of the pot and into the condenser should be longer (at least 12 inches) The join on the vertical of the pot can be seen as a hairline crack.(This is what my pot has even though there is no leak)

Great setup for a beginner just starting out and doesn't have much knowledge on thumper kegs. Easy to set up and run. Most people will say the condenser is too small and overflows but they just don't know how to properly use it. Just put the setting on low and open the outlet valve fully and the inlet a little less than fully open and it should never overflow at all. It takes a bit of tinkering to figure out the sweet spot of the valves. Instruction booklet also has some pretty good recipes in it as well. Not too good of detail in some pictures beings they are kind of hard to see due to the poor image quality but has detailed instructions written step by step. But for the price it is you can't go wrong with it. Perfect gift for a knew hobbyist starting out the art of distilling.

Bought as a gift. They said it was perfect for its use.