Serving the Home Distilling Industry Since 1992

The oldest hobby distilling company in North America, Brewhaus America was founded in 1992 by Rick Morris. Rick is the author of the book "the Joy of Home Distilling" and founder of the Hobby Distiller's Association. All Essential Extractor series quality moonshine stills are his own unique design. After 25+ years, we still make the highest quality stainless steel alcohol stills in North America.

"Moonshine Still" vs "Essential Oil Distiller"

What's in a name anyway? Our units are made to do a lot more than make moonshine! Our moonshine still kits (also known as "fractionating columns") can also be used to distill water, essential oils, and fuel alcohol. Fractionation is when you separate a mixture into several smaller fractions, or components. This is how you can get such a high proof from doing a run. You're just separating the alcohol part from the rest of your wash (which is mostly water) and collecting the concentrated alcohol from the condenser. So you're not MAKING anything new when you distill; you're just separating and concentrating what's already there.

Brewhaus stills are made from high quality, dairy grade 304L stainless steel tubing. We build our columns here in our Texas warehouse, but we don't have the equipment to build the kettles here. We have our own unique kettle molds that are exclusive to Brewhaus pots. These are not milk cans, which are not made to withstand the high temperatures that distilling requires. Our kettles are assembled in China and shipped to us for our welder to customize the lids and couplings per order. We hope to be able to make our kettles here in our own warehouse someday, but we're not there yet!