Category: Distillation Alembic

In Cobrelis we show you how distillation works with traditional copper stills. Discover how to get the best distillate for spirits such as gin or whisky, essential oils such as lavender or plants such as rosemary. Tips, guides and recommendations.

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Alembics for the decoration

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Copper stills are no longer only used to distill liquors (such as whiskey) or essential oils, at Cobrelis we have verified that in 2021 a new trend has opened: decoration stills.

Decoration or decorative alembics are beginning to be seen on the one hand in certain sectors such as the hotel and catering industry and on the other in the domestic sphere.

Copper, as a decorative element.
Alembics to decorate your premises.
Alembics to Decorate your House.

Copper, as a decorative element, Contrast and Tradition

Copper is a material that gives objects a lot of presence. The copper stills have a very special tonality that, without being very flashy or bulky at all, powerfully draws attention in a subtle and elegant way.

On the other hand, the shape of the alembic is also very decorative, with curved shapes, not rough or straight, they also constitute a very harmonious decorative element, whose shape and material (copper) evokes tradition and enhances the contrast with the rest of more modern objects. around.

This is the key to the success of decorating the stills, the contrast between the modern and the traditional, which plays so much in decoration, both domestic and business.

At Cobrelis, we have a wide variety of stills of various capacities, which may fit what you are looking for.

Alembics to decorate your premises.

There are more and more businesses aimed at customer service such as the hospitality (luxury restaurants), wineries, rural houses, hotels or liquor or plant stores. In these businesses, they usually have either one or 2 very colorful stills or a large number of small stills.

Alembics to Decorate your House.

the success is in the small alembics, small copper stills of 3 to 5 liters, which are not very showy, but they highlight the area where they are placed. In houses, the placement of stills next to the plants is usually a great choice, copper and green combine very well and create a very harmonious, natural and pure space in your home.

At Cobrelis, we have a wide variety of stills of various capacities, which may fit what you are looking for.

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What is the best price for a copper alembic?

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The price of an alembic depends exclusively on its size and capacity. At Cobrelis, we give you a series of guidelines so that you can find your alembic at an affordable price and at the same time guarantee quality in both the material and the distillate.

Prices on both the rational and international markets range, depending on the capacity, between 100 euros (traditional 3-liter still) and 1,900 (traditional 300-liter still).

When the alembic exceeds 50 liters in capacity, the price is 500 euros and reaches 1,000 euros with 100 liters. Do not forget that both 50 and 100 liters in a traditional copper alembic is a large size, intended for large distillations, if what you are looking for are more practical, small or even decorative stills, at Cobrelis we recommend that you look for your alembic between 3 and the 40 liters.

The most common sizes of stills that you will find in the online and physical market are the following, we are based on the traditional stills of our store, Cobrelis, which offers the best quality / price ratio in the alembic market nationally and internationally:

Prices of 3 Liter Alembics

-105, 60 €

Cost of 5 Liter Distillers

-117.98 €

Prices of 10 liter stills

-164.64 €

Cost of 15 Liter Distillers
-208,28 €

20 liter alembic prices
€ 234.06

Cost of 25 Liter Distillers
-261,83 €

30 Liter Still Prices
-302,50 €

Cost of 40 Liter Distillers
-389,22 €

50 Liter Still Prices
-516,99 €

80 Liter Distillers Cost
-833,77 €

100 liter alembic prices
-964,00 €

Cost of 150 Liter Distillers
-1,424.00 €

200 liter alembic prices
-1,436.00 €

Cost of 250 Liter Distillers
-1,624.00 €

300 liter alembic prices
€ 1,904.00

At Cobrelis, our online store specializing in the sale of alembics, we ship anywhere in the world and in any size.

In addition to having traditional stills, we have a lot of variety: column stills (in high demand), water bath stills, whiskey stills, essential oil stills … and many more! Find out what each one is for and their prices at www.cobrelis.com

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Distillation Alembic Special Stills

Moonshine Pot Still

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Moonshine Pot stills are copper stills in high demand today. In Cobrelis you will find a catalog of different capacities to distill this liquor. This type of alembic is an evolution of the traditional alembic manufactured to facilitate the distillation of cereals.

Moonshine History

Ingredients for distillation

Parts of a whiskey alembic

Whiskey Maceration

Moonshine History

The Moonshine Pot Stills have a difficult to identify origin. Since the beginning of history, there have been references in Northern Europe and over the centuries there has been a clear differentiation; the Scotch Whiksy, the American Whiskey and the Irish Whsiky. The strongest being Scotch and the lightest and smoothest American whiskey.

Ingredients for distillation

Moonshine is obtained by distilling fermented malt from cereals. The most used are like barley, wheat, rye and corn. The amount of alcohol in whiskey ranges between 40% and 62%. For this reason, Whiskey is served in small quantities.

Parts of a Moonshine Pot Stills

Pota: lower part of the alembic where the elements for distillation are placed.
Column: It is the part of the alembic where the element to be distilled is placed.
Hood: upper part of the alembic where the steam comes out.
Serpentine Cube: the steam expelled by the hood is mixed with the mixture in the squid and through a tube the extract passes to the serpentine cube, where the final result is.

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At Cobrelis you will find whiskey stills of different capacities (we have from 30 to 150 liters).

Moonshine Maceration

After distillation, to achieve the aged effect in the Whiskey, it is necessary to let it marinate in wooden barrels for a considerable time (for example, American Whiskey needs 3 years of maceration).

Depending on the type of wood in the barrel, the whiskey will be enriched with certain aromas. For example, if you use an American oak barrel, you will make the drink have a certain coconut, vanilla or banana flavor.

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Distillation Alembic Special Stills

Large Capacity Special Drain Still for Distilling Liquids

At Cobrelis we can prepare an alembic of the liters you want. Today we want to show our special copper drainage still with no more and no less than 300 Liters Capacity.

What is a special drain alembic?
Parts of a special drain copper alembic?
What can you distill with a special drain alembic?

What is a special drain still?

A still is a copper instrument used for centuries to distill liqueurs such as whiskey, gin or rum, but also essential oils such as lavender or rosemary essential oil.

Specifically, a special drain still is characterized by having a special inlet to introduce liquids into the mixture to distill that stills of other types lack.

The alembic that we see in the photo is the demonstration of the manufacturing capacity that we have in Cobrelis, and we adapt to the client’s requests.

It is a 300-liter cylindrical alembic, with a rectification lens, designed for the distillation of liquids, with a 3 ”upper inlet and a 3” drain. It is a commission from a client in Bolivia.

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Parts of a special drain copper alembic?

Like all copper stills, the drain alembic has the following parts:

  • Pot: lower part of the still where the elements for distillation are placed.
  • Hood: upper part of the still where the steam comes out.
  • Serpentine Cube: the steam expelled by the hood is mixed with the mixture in the squid and through a tube the extract passes to the serpentine cube, where the final result is.

In the drainage stills there is another part that is the inlet for the liquids

What can you distill with a special drain still?


The idea is that you can introduce liquids into the mixture to distill in the copper pot still. The liquids you want to use depends on the distilled product. You can create your own homemade gin, whiskey or rum.

But in addition to distilling alcoholic beverages with an alembic, you can also obtain essential oils such as lavender oil, rosemary oil, oregano oil or tea tree oil.

In this post of our blog we remind you that they are the main essential oils that you can obtain with a copper alembic and in this other how to prepare essential oils at home.

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Distillation Alembic Essential oils

How to distill essential oils at home?

Destilar Aceites Esenciales

Do you want to distill plants and obtain essential oils with a copper alembic at home? At Cobrelis we give you the instructions to use an essence distiller.

1. What is an alembic?

2. Parts of a copper alembic for distilling plants

3. How a still works: steps to distill essential oils at home with a copper alembic

1. What is an alembic?

An alembic is an instrument for distilling liquor or alcohol and essential oils that has been used for centuries. The material is copper, since it is very malleable and is an excellent conductor of heat, which greatly favors distillation.

Enter Cobrelis and we will show you our entire catalog of special stills for the distillation of plants and essential oils.

2. Parts of an alembic:

The traditional alembic consists of the following parts:

Squid: it is the lower part of the alembic where you put the water and the mixture to distill.

Hood: upper part of the alembic where the steam comes out.

Serpentine cube: the cube where the steam condenses, and we obtain the distilled mixture.

Column: Column stills are widely used in distillation of plants and essential oils, even more than traditional stills. These alembics have a column where the distilled mixture is put that gives more quality to the distillation.

You can see our entire catalog here of column stills in Cobrelis.

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3. How an alembic works: Steps to distill essential oils at home with a copper still:

First step: Prepare the mixture to distill:

To distill an essential oil such as lavender, rosemary or oregano, you must choose the freshest and most tender parts of the plant. It is very important that you choose plants without herbicides and without pesticides, that is, that they are organic plants so that the quality of the distillate is better.

Each plant has a different maceration process, in this blog post we will tell you about the most used essential oils for distillation with an alembic.

Here we leave you a video where they explain the procedure to extract lavender essential oil.

Steps to continue with an alembic:

1. The first thing is to introduce the distilled mixture to obtain our essential oil of lavender, rosemary, tea tree or lemon, for example, in the squid (or in the column in the case of a column alembic).

2. The next step is to put the water in the pot and heat it (the temperature will be measured with a special thermometer that can be supplied with the alembic included).

3. The heat will cause the steam to pass from the squid (where the distilled mixture is) to the hood (the top of the alembic) through a copper grate. With the passage of steam from one part to another, the oils and aromas are extracted.

4. In the serpentine cube we will obtain the liquid result of the distillation of our essential oil.

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Small Homemade Copper Stills

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Benefits of using small copper stills

Types of little homemade and crafted copper stills

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Benefits of using little copper alembics

The 3 or 5 liter stills are very useful for small home distillations of small quantities such as certain spirits or essential oils. If you have never distilled and want to make it at home, at Cobrelis we recommend that you start with a small one.

Small destializers are a great idea to make a personalized gift:

The alambics are manageable stills.
The stills are easy to send.
They don’t take up as much space as other distillers, so their home use is very viable and affordable.

Stills for decoration: its decorative use is very high and very tasteful because of its size and because they are made of copper, very elegant and attractive material.

copper pot still for plants

Types of small homemade and crafted copper stills

At Cobrelis we have a wide variety:

For example, small traditional stills: A small one, always used for life for all types of distillations.

Also, Small Column Copper Stills: Small still ideal for making essential oil distillations. You can see more information on this still type in all of its sizes here.

Small copper bain-marie stills: This type of alembics are very suitable for the distillation of brandy and other spirits due to the slow distillation. They are very decorative additions due to their shape.

Buy small stills

At Cobrelis we have a wide variety of small copper stills from 3 to 5 liters with different prices and different accessories such as breathalyzers and thermometers:

Therefore, a traditional 3-liter still
For example, traditional 3 liter plant still with thermometer
As well as, Alembic with 5 liters traditional
For example, traditional 5 liter plant still with thermometer
As well as, Traditional 5 liter still for plants with thermometer and acoholimeter

For example, 3 liter column still with thermometer
As well as, 3 liter column still for plants with thermometer

For example, 5 liter column still with thermometer
As well as, 5 liter column still for plants with thermometer

Finally, a still of 5 liters of bain-marie with thermometer

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Distillation Alembic Essential oils

Plant Distillation with Copper Stills

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Did you know that you can distill essential oils from plants such as lavender or lemon using a homemade still? We tell you all about the distillation of plants on the Cobrelis blog, your online alembic store.

-Copper Pot Stills for distilling plants

-Plants to be distilled with stills

–Best essential oils and flowers to use with stills

Cobrelis Plant Alembic Still

Copper Pot Stills for distilling plants

The most suitable stills for the distillation of plants are:

Column Stills for Plants:

This type of copper still is undoubtedly the most suitable for the distillation of plants because the water of distillation never comes into contact with the ingredients. The result is a pure and high quality distillation.

You can see our catalog of column stills here.

Copper stills for plants:

These stills are pear shaped and are the oldest type of still. They are also very suitable for the distillation of plants and essential oils to obtain aromas or soaps for example.

Moreover, this type of stills also works very well as a decorative element. Copper can be a very eye-catching and elegant ornament with your plants.

You can see our catalog of our copper stills for plants here

Hydraulic closing alembics for plants:

These stills are an evolution of the traditional ones. Whereas in the first one you have to apply a flour putty on the still to obtain the tightness of the distillate, in these stills this is not necessary. This facilitates the distillation of plants and the obtaining of essential oils.

You can see our catalog of water closing stills here

Copper Pot Stills for Plants and Essential Oils - Cobrelis

Plants to be distilled with stills

Distillation plants with stills - Cobrelis

The above mentioned copper stills are ideal for the distillation of medicinal and aromatic plants. Once distilled, you will obtain essential oils.

Here is a list of plants that you can distill in one of the above stills.

Medicinal plants for distillation with copper stills:

–Rosemary plant to be distilled with stills

–Tarragon for distillation

– Usine de Menthe à distiller avec des alambics

–-Peppermint for distillation

–Dill plant to be distilled with stills

–Basil for use in distillation

And much more!

Aromatic plants to be distilled with copper stills:

–Lavender plant to be distilled with stills

–Laurel for use in distillation

–Salvia plant to be distilled with stills

–Coriander plant to be distilled with stills

–Pulleys for use in distillation

–Oregano plant to be distilled with stills

Best essential oils and flowers to use with stills

Rose for plant distillation with alembic stills - Cobrelis

From all the previous plants, with a correct distillation and using the appropriate artisanal still, you can obtain the final result of the distillate: essential oils, perfumes or soaps.

Here you will see a post we made about the best 8 essential oils to distil with stills.

As for the aromas. We leave you a list of the most used plants for distilling perfumes.

–Rose: the flower most used for the elaboration of perfumes and aromas.

–Lavender: used a lot because of its long-lasting fragrance.

–Violet: used for its delicate aroma.

–Geranium: widely used for men’s fragrances.

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The best alembic to make brandy

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Type of alembic to distill brandy

Ingredients for distilling brandy with a copper alembic

How to distill brandy with an alembic

Distilling brandy is a process that requires knowing the fruits necessary for maceration, the type of alembic necessary and the steps you have to do to make an effective, healthy and tasty distillation.

Type of alembic for distilling brandy

At Cobrelis, your online alembic store, we recommend that you use a traditional copper alembic like the one in our 10 Liter Traditional Alembic With Thermometer and Breathalyzer catalog. It is important that the values ​​that the alembic you choose have the necessary accessories for distillation.

Traditional 10 liter copper alembic with thermometer included

Ingredients for distilling brandy with a copper alembic

You can make the maceration with any of these fruits (they are the most used):

  • Pears
  • Yellow plums
  • Plums
  • Raspberries

It is advisable to leave the fermented liquid for 3 weeks before distillation with the copper alembic.

How to distill brandy with an alembic

The fermentation liquid must be put in the lower part of the alembic and make at least 2 distillations to eliminate the ethyl content that is harmful to health (to see the appropriate levels and achieve a suitable graduation you have the breathalyzer and the thermometer).

At Cobrelis, we have a catalog of accessories for alembics that you may be interested in to achieve the best distillation of brandy.

Thermometer

Breathalyser