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Glass — quality without compromise

Glass — quality without compromise

So you chose quality. I am with you: it is worth aiming at doing a thing properly, though I admit that is my own view, and it belongs to a dying breed.

To the point. If you want the best possible distillate, the still has to be glass. There is plenty to hold against the material — the drawbacks are in the summary — but nothing else is as chemically inert, and nothing else adds so little of itself to what passes through it. Nobody argues with that.

The proof is simple enough: every research laboratory, and anywhere the purity of the sample is what counts, works on glass.

Next question. What matters more to you — the price of the set, or how solidly it is built?

Wizard map — every step and branch. Click any step to jump straight to it.
quality output What matters more? Glass quality above all Metal output and volume Price matters more Build quality matters more Quality matters more Price matters more Little headroom vertically Volume is the point Summary: glass Summary: metal Metal vs glass
A still: the path of the vapour from the boiler, through the dephlegmator and condenser, to the receiver.
heat boiler mash dephlegmator returns heavier fractions condenser cold water warm water receiver distillate vapour