Home Distillation of Alcohol (Homemade Alcohol to Drink)

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Distillers Newsgroup

 The best discussion group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Distillers/ - with heaps of heaps of usefull, experienced advice from professionals, engineers, keen ammatures, and hicks alike. It will e-mail you the messages too, so you don't have to go hunting through the site each time (and also means you can get them at work!). If you have ANY questions, post them on this newsgroup. It use to be at eGroups, but its since been taken over by Yahoo
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Description : Dedicated to the exchange of information and experiences relating to the process of producing alcohol at home. Especially suited to spirit distillation. For more information, mailto: topkiwi@ihug.co.nz
Community email addresses: You can change how the posted messages are sent to you by sending a blank eMail to Note that the Daily digest won't have any of the attachments. To get these you will either need the Individual messages, or go to the Web site.

An searchable archive of the messages is also available at http://archive.nnytech.net/ (big thanks to Martin Klingensmith for setting this up !)

New Distillers Newsgroup

 Des thought that Distillers was getting a little too technical for absolute newbies, so he also started a second group at YahooGroups called New_Distillers. The object is to keep the discussion to fundamentals and foster good technique at an early stage.
email address: new_distillers@yahoogroups.com

Dutch Distillers Newsgroup

 There is also a newsgroup specifically for those who speak Dutch.
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/distilleren/

rec.crafts.distilling

 If you have Usenet access, look up rec.crafts.distilling
Their FAQ can be found at http://www.distilling.netfirms.com/.

IRC Chat Room

 There is a #newdistillers channel at irc.freenode.net

If you don't have mIRC or the like installed, simply go to http://distiller.servebeer.com/chat/ and use the Javascript applet there (it will automatically connect you - nothing could be easier)

HomeDistiller.Org Forums

 See http://www.homedistiller.org/forums/ for the forums at HomeDistiller.Org.

Its broken down into the categories of ..
* Research and Theory
* Stills and Appurtenances
* Mash/Ferment/Distill
* Flavouring and Aging
* Alcohol as Fuel
* Resources and Reviews

There is now a new forum also at http://www.diydistilling.org/phpbb/

Biofuels Newsgroup

 If you're into making ethanol as a fuel, try the Biofuels news group at YahooGroups.

Distilled Beverage Digest

 The "Distilled Beverage Digest is an email based digest for the discussion of subjects pertinent to the making (non-US) and enjoyment (worldwide) of distilled beverages." Note that only subscribers can post to it, so sign up.

Subscribe by sending the word "subscribe" to dbd-request@hbd.org
Articles for publication should be sent to dbd@hbd.org

Homebrew Digest

 Homebrew Digest http://hbd.org, which hosts the DBD, is a very active homebrewing discussion digest, with less noise than rec.crafts.brewing. While spirits and distillation are not normally a part of hbd, home brewing is, of course, a first step in the production of whiskies.
Subscribe by sending the word "subscribe" to hbd-request@hbd.org
Articles for publication (by subscribers) should be sent to hbd@hbd.org

American Distiller Newsletter

 Bill Owens (of American Brewer) has just started an (AD) American Distiller newletter. Its aim is to legalize home distilling and promote the industry. Send an e-mail to Ambrew@aol.com if you want to be on the mailing list.
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