Sure thing. Here's what you can do:
- Fill up the flask to 80% of full, so that if it foams or bubbles, it doesn't go up your column.
- For the first run, use as much heat as your condenser will take and throw out the first 10 ml. It will smell sweet at first, perfume-y, then turn to a more sort of acetone or solvent smell, then transition to more sharp alcohol smell. Toss out everything that smells really sharp. Shouldn't be very much. Second and third run you barely toss anything at all.
- Adjust heat down to the point where there is no steam coming from condenser. Run it fast for the first run into one collection vessel. You don't have a way to measure the alcohol without an alcoholmeter, so run it until you collect about half of the volume you put in to the flask. This should be most of the alcohol available.
- You actually don't need a thermometer running like this, as a basic pot still.
- Repeat until you run out of the peach wine. You should wind up with something like 6 liters of the clear distillate.
For the second run
- Dilute distillate with water to make around 10-12 liters again.
- Repeat again, but this time, run it slower. You should be getting either a very thin stream or very rapid drops, almost like a stream. This time, again discard first 10-15 ml. Should be less solvent-y at first now.
- Now start collecting in pint size jars until you collect about half of the volume again, so 5-6 liters.
- Smell the jars. You will notice they change as you go from beginning to end. The very early stuff and the very late stuff is usually too harsh. You want the middle. But, there's a tradeoff. First stuff has high ABV, usually starts at 80 and then goes down. Bottom stuff will be 20% or less.
- Take that middle and blend together into a container. You now have collected the middle fraction. You can burn or toss or save the head fraction.
- Again dilute with water, this time to make 8-10 liters.
Third run:
- Start again, and run it slowly. Perhaps about the same as the second time, fast drips or thin stream. You can fill it up pretty full second and third runs, it won't boil over any more, no organic bits.
- Collect again in pint jars or smaller.
- Leave jars overnight to air out. Come back in the morning. Blend what smells good to you. It may not smell that great because of the turbo, but try to get the cleanest stuff.
- If it's drinkable, let it air all blended together for a few days, then bottle. If not, toss in a handful or two of charcoal.
- With the final distillate, you can also take a stave or small piece of oak from a barrel and char it with a torch, or cook in the oven and put it in. You will get something sort of like a peach brandy. Without the oak, you're getting a sugared eau-de-vie.
With a lab still and middle blend, you should get a 40-55% final ABV.
Cheers, mate
