Complete Essential Extractor PSII On Sale!

This week, our Complete 2" Essential Extractor PSII Still with 8-Gallon Kettle is on sale for only $339.99! This stainless steel column performs both pot and reflux distillation and comes with a hose pack, submersible water pump, water control system, and your choice of column packing.

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Brewhaus Custom Moonshine Stills

Distillation itself is a slow and purposeful process, and we build our moonshine stills carefully and by hand. Find out how we build your still from start to finish.

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Serving the Home Distilling Industry Since 1992

Brewhaus America was founded in 1992 by Rick Morris. Rick is the author of the Joy of Home Distilling and founder of the Hobby Distiller's Association. All Essential Extractor Series moonshine stills are his own unique design. After 25+ years, Brewhaus America still makes the highest quality stainless steel alcohol stills and distillation columns in North America. Each still is hand crafted and tested to make sure that you get the best unit for your distilling needs.

Our stills are widely used as moonshine stills, whiskey stills, or essential oil distillers. If you are a commercial alcohol distiller, we can also custom build a still to meet your needs. We strive to offer the best pricing on distillation columns, home distilling equipment, turbo yeast, and distillers yeast.

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"Moonshine Still" vs "Distilling Equipment"

What's in a name anyway? We call our distillers moonshine stills, but they're made to do a lot more than make moonshine! Our moonshine still kits can also be used to distill water, essential oils, vinegar, and fuel alcohol.

Distillation is simply the process of boiling a substance that is comprised of different components. Each component boils at a different temperature, separating them so you can isolate and collect one component. Alcohol distillation separates ethanol from water. No matter what you're distilling, do it safely. Try using an electric heating element instead of an open flame.

Brewhaus moonshine stills are made from high quality, dairy grade 304L stainless steel tubing. You can be sure that your Brewhaus still is lead free because our on-site welders use TIG welding, not soldering. We build our columns here in our Texas warehouse, but we don't have the equipment to build the kettles here. We have our own unique kettle molds that are exclusive to Brewhaus pots. These are not milk cans, which are not made to withstand the high temperatures that distilling requires. Our kettles are assembled in China and shipped to us for our welder to customize the lids and couplings per order. We hope to be able to make our kettles right in our own warehouse someday, but we're not there yet!

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Why We Prefer Stainless Steel Instead of Copper Moonshine Stills

When you think of distilling, you probably picture the old-time copper moonshine stills. If you're distilling alcohol, then you have some nasty sulfur compounds in your was that formed during fermentation. You'll want copper to help neutralize those sulfur compounds and improve your final product's taste and scent, but you don't need a lot of copper in order to get the benefit. Copper mesh, copper scrubbers, or copper rings in a stainless steel column will give you the same results.

There are other benefits to copper, too. Copper is better at conducting heat than stainless steel, which can save time. Copper is also easier to build with because it's a much softer metal than stainless steel. A copper moonshine still is definitely a thing of beauty!

As pretty as it is, there are some reasons why you an all-copper still may not be for you. Copper is very difficult to clean. If you're not good about cleaning your still, you'll taste it in your product--and it's not good. Copper is also more expensive than and not as versatile as stainless steel. You can distill essential oils in a stainless column by removing the copper column packing, but you can't distill essential oils in a copper moonshine still.

We Make Our Own Turbo Yeast, Too

Brewhaus America is more than just distillation equipment! We are the sole American importer for The Original Prestige turbo yeast and alcohol essence flavors from Sweden. We also make High Spirits turbo yeast and essences right here in our Texas warehouse. We do not private label our turbo yeast or distillers yeast.

Other companies use private labeled turbo yeast, which means that they pay to (legally) put their label on another brand's yeast and resell it as their own. That's fine, but it's not what we do. High Spirits turbo yeast is made in-house from Rick's unique recipes. High Spirits turbo yeast is exclusive to Brewhaus and stores who buy from us.

What sets High Spirits turbo yeast apart from other yeasts is that High Spirits does not contain urea. In fermentation, urea helps produce ethyl carbamate, which has been found to cause cancer. It has even been banned in beverage alcohol production in some countries. If the label doesn't specifically say that there's no urea in it, then your yeast might contain urea.

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Can I Legally Buy a Still?

In the United States, people of legal drinking age can make their own wine or beer at home legally. But producing distilled spirits at home is still illegal according to Federal law. There are distilling permits you can apply for online on the Alcohol &Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau's website. You can also learn more on the TTB's website in their Distilled Spirits FAQs.

It's up to our customers to use their equipment in accordance with their local laws. Brewhaus America is not liable for illegal moonshine distillation or other illegal use. Moonshine distilling is illegal in certain countries, and our stills and yeast are intended for legal home distilling use. We do not wish to promote illegal use of your moonshine still.

Order Online and Pickup at Our Warehouse

Locals can pick up fulfilled orders, but we don't have a retail store for in-person shopping. Order online and request "Pickup" in the order comments, and we'll call you when your order is ready. Most are ready by the next business day except for stills. Columns and moonshine stills are hand-made and built-to-order and typically have a lead time of several weeks.