First of all - why this stills are called "Alex"? The answer is: we decided that the name will help to distinguish this kind of stills from other kinds of stills, the "Alex"  stands for Alcohol extractor where 25, 30, or 50 is the capacity of the still's boiler.

Second - the still used to be equipped with vinyl tubing and polyethylene ball valve, though this particular materials are considered to be absolutely safe and widely used for water and food handling, spirit bottles stoppers and even human artificial joints replacement, but we decided to move forward and replace all the plastic parts that were used for ethanol control and conduction with stainless steel tubes and ball valve.

From now on all stills of this kind that are intended for food grade ethanol production will be equipped with stainless steel parts. The only plastic parts remaining on the still is the ones that used for cooling water supply and one tiny tube that used to show the ethanol level in the dephlegmator, this small tube just get filled up once during distillation and technically there is no ethanol flow through this tube so no ethanol quality affection.

Third we came up with one extra part that can be fitted to any "Alex 25" or "Alex30" still that was ewer sold, this part is optional and will be sold separately or together with still for extra cost, the part is the herb infusion chamber that makes it possible to make any kinds of herbal infused spirits such us Gin. In controversy to classic Gin production straight out of raw mash while trying to determine the heads and tails wasting the precious herbal goodies that escape together with unusable head fraction - we do it the most safe and economic way, so to achieve the best result we use our stripping column first and extracting the raw spirit out of mash, then we running the fractional distillation with fractional column and separating all the impurities from the raw spirit and collecting the purified free of impurities ethanol, now here is the trick: the purified ethanol has no impurities, no tails or heads to worry about, thus the purified ethanol is added to the boiler and mixed with a fresh water, then the infusion chamber is installed and loaded with the botanic mix, the stripping column is mounted on top of the infusion chamber and distillation run absolutely straight from beginning to the end of the infused spirit extraction and there is no tails or heads to waste the herbals in, plus there is no hangover next morning, moreover the results are 100% professional, no terrible homebrew smell or taste.

"Alex 30" fractional still. Just recently we started production of 30L fractional stills, this still is a bit different from the previous model of "Alex 25" the still has bigger boiler - 30l capacity, and new kind of re designed fractional and stripping columns. Main difference of new fractional and stripping columns is that they require less water for better cooling so water consumption for cooling was decreased plus we re designed the dephlegmator of fractional column - thus now the fractional column is a bit higher but diameter of the columns head was decreased - as a result we achieved a better cooling ability of the column, decreased physical weight, and achieved better water economy - while production ability of the still remains the same as with old bulky dephlegmator. The stripping column of the fractional still was re designed as well the cooler's diameter was decreased while cooling surface area inside the heat exchanger was increased, as a result lighter and more efficient stripping column with decreased water consumption. Yet another positive aspect: the lighter the still the cheaper the shipping.