Fermentation is a sweet (as in versatile) process. It delivers ton of opportunity in a modern day world,IMHO. Distallation is cool, but mainly a means of purification. The balence of scale depending on what you are trying to acheive can go from backyard basement for taste bud pleasure to full blown industrial scale for fuel. GH61 offers utility to the latter and not so much for taste buds. Beer is one of my all time favorites. Beer making is ulta cool if you can keep it clean. If you want crank out a sloppy mash then distill that'll work as well. The permutations of all these proceesses recombined in different ways and scales is definitely a fun thing to play with.
I would love to run a more serious homebrew at the 10 or 20 gal brew kettle scale because you can make some fine stuff. Cleaning equiptment is key here and I would have to dump some bucks for a steam clean in line type deal...dunno. I am also thinking of installing some alcohol burners for the big house under the assumtpion that I could in the future vat ferment a bit of grass cuttings, distill, and make some alternative fuel for the winter. Just a notion on the latter and pondering. Fermentation has help to pay the bills here for a long time as has been quite a fun and curious ride.
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