Essential Oils

Solid still for essential oils

For steam distillation to obtain essential oil

• Water / steam boiler and plant room: 10.5 liters,

• of which plant area: up to 6 liters,

• Counterflow power cooler,

• Lockable with tension locks,

• Hygiene through high-quality 18/10 stainless steel - no risk of verdigris, no risk of rust.

With the DESTILLIERMEISTER ECO-E10506 you get a great introductory offer bargain with a heavy, thick-walled 18/10 stainless steel kettle in gastro quality and a curved countercurrent high-performance cooler that is only available from us. Thanks to a special bending technique, we can manufacture curved counterflow coolers up to 6 m in length using the double-pipe process, as found in a straight Liebig cooler. Our counterflow cooler can be seen as a further development of the Liebig cooler. The cooler of the DESTILLIERMEISTER ECO-E10506 has a full 80 cm cooling length. Distillation bridges with Liebig coolers of this length would be difficult to handle with a total length of 140 cm and are therefore no longer offered. However, a longer cooling length means significantly less cooling water consumption, because the heat can be released into the cooling water at lower flow rates. A good cooler with an optimally set flow rate can be recognized by the fact that the waste water comes out hot at the outlet and the distillate is still well cooled.

DESTILLIERMEISTER FLEXI2-3 - the allrounder
Legal and registration-free 2 liter hobby still made of heavy-duty stainless steel for various applications

The DESTILLIERMEISTER FLEXI2-3 Supreme impresses with its particularly solid material quality.
Private users from Germany can purchase this still legally and without registration. This device may also be used legally for the extraction of essential oils and hydrosols.
In Austria, alcohol can also be legally produced with this still. The DESTILLIERMEISTER FLEXI2-3 Supreme is equally suitable for both applications.
There are variable usage variants for distilling schnapps. In this way, aromatic fruit brandies can be produced or, by increasing the column resistance, they can also be used very well for cleaning alcohol. Because the distillation bridge can be attached to both the still and the column, the still is suitable for pot still and reflux distilling.

Essential oils and hydrolates
With 3 liters of plant space, the FLEXI2-3 Supreme has a decent volume in the hobby area to process larger quantities of plants or drugs. The steam is generated in an extra boiler under the plant container, so that contact with boiling water can be excluded. The best thing is: Since the kettle only has a volume of 2 liters despite the large plant container, the DESTILLIERMEISTER FLEXI2-3 Supreme is also legal in Germany and Austria and can therefore be sold and operated without notification to customs.

Easy to use:

• Pour 1.5 liters into the water / steam boiler,
• Put the seal with the long lip facing inwards over the edge of the boiler,
• Put on cover 2 and close with the latches (1.1).
• Attach 3 liter plant tube (3).
• Insert the aroma basket (8) and fill it with up to 3 liters of herbs or drugs - just compress slightly,
• Put the seal - as described above - over the edge of the plant tube.
• Put on the cover (4) and tension the latches (3.2).
• Insert the distillation bridge 5 into the socket 4.1.
• Screw suitable cooling water hoses to the radiator with 1/2 "hose screw connections, water supply via 5.4, waste water via 5.5.
• Switch on the heat source and at 5.6 collect hydrolates with oil. The distillate line 7 must not be immersed in the distillate.
• With a full tube, distill a maximum of 15 to a maximum of 20 minutes at higher power (e.g. induction plate 1500 to 2000 watts). The heating output must be reduced for smaller quantities.

Stainless steel burning protection 
The safest protection against burning of mash, when distilling, is a water bath still. But with directly heated boilers you must have devices that prevent burning with high security. The first step is to keep the thick components of a mash away from the heated bottom. This is achieved primarily by a mash strainer. But a mash strainer alone is not a 100% burning protection. If the liquid component of a mash still contains starch, the liquid can also burn. To find that out, you should either do an iodine starch test, or cheaper, put a small amount of the liquid mash in a small pot and do a burning test on the stove. If the small amount burns, precautions must be taken.
If you know that you do not use 100% ripe fruit, burn is likely. In this case, it is advisable to use an amylase, which converts residual starch into sugar. This not only reduces the danger of burning, but also increases the yield.
Nevertheless, you should perform the above-mentioned burning test after fermentation. If the sample still tended to burn despite using an amylase, in addition to the mash sieve for instance a mash bag, as we offer it here in different sizes. This can not only keep solid components off the ground, but also filter out residual yeast. The combination of amylase, mash screen and filter bag or filter cloth should prevent burning.

Aroma basket
Is not it just protection against burning, but that either, in Germany only for commercial applications, alcohol vapor flows through fruits or herbs to obtain an aromatized distillate, or steam distillations to produce hydrosol and essential oils to be carried out, which is also in Germany is allowed, one uses a height-adjustable aroma sieve. This is placed in a still above the neutral alcohol or water and filled with fruits, flowers or herbs and will be distilled.