Um, David? Perhaps you should read the group name. This is an
amateur radio newsgroup, not a group for homebrew alcohol (or other
recreational chemicals). We do get the occasional posting here on
those topics, but they're relatively rare.

OTOH, yes, the hotter you run things, the faster they will go, but
you'll also carry over more water. That's an advantage of a
fractional distillation column, but I suppose you don't have that.
You can also make things go faster by increasing the surface area of
the liquid in the vessel you're heating: a bigger still. It would
also go faster if you pulled a vacuum on the output end, but then be
sure to run your condenser cold enough to pull the ethanol out.

"David Lindsay" wrote in message .. .
On my first attempt using a recently purchased alcohol still, it took over
6hrs to make around 4 liters of alcohol. We were running the temp steady at
around 84 degs. When I finally decided to increase the temp to 90 degs is
started flowing faster. Should we have ran it hotter from the start. How
long does it usually take to run off 5ltrs.

Any tips would be appreciated