Alcohol Distiller Handbook

Fuel Alcohol From Grain

Alcohol Distiller's Handbook, by Herman Willkie and Joseph Prochaska, explains how to turn grain into ethyl alcohol from start to finish. It covers small setups aimed at personal fuel self-sufficiency as well as commercial-scale production. Homesteaders and preparedness readers who want to understand the whole process before buying or building equipment will find it useful, and so will anyone curious about how alcohol fuel is made.

Features

• Milling And Mashing — Covers grinding the grain and cooking it into a mash, the stage where its starches are converted into fermentable sugars.
• Fermentation — Explains how yeast turns those sugars into alcohol and what affects the strength and yield of a batch.
• Distillation — Describes separating and concentrating the alcohol from the fermented mash with a still.
• Distillers' Dried Grain And Solubles — Deals with the spent grain left over after distillation, often shortened to DDGS, so it can be handled as a usable byproduct.
• Laboratory Control — Shows the testing and measurement used to monitor each stage and keep a run consistent.
• Illustrated Diagrams And Charts — Figures lay out equipment arrangements, process flow and the key calculations so the text is easier to follow.
• Personal And Commercial Scope — Addresses both small fuel-for-your-own-use operations and larger production setups.
• Softcover Format — A paperback of roughly 195 pages that is easy to keep on a shop shelf or workbench.

About This Edition

Desert Publications released this handbook in 1980 (ISBN 0879473037). The chapters follow the production sequence in order, so a reader new to distilling can work through it front to back, while someone with experience can go straight to the section or calculation they need. Check federal, state and local regulations before operating any still.