When I was young and foolish (as opposed to now being old and foolish), I used to make a little "shine". I found that you could set a mash on Sunday afternoon, let it ferment all week, run off a batch in the still on Saturday morning, cut it 50 percent with water, get raging, puking drunk on Saturday night, then start a new batch on Sunday afternoon, after your head had returned to normal size.----I had built a "regular" still, with a copper boiler, a copper coil and a cold water condenser. I had a friend who made small batches on a "stove-top" still. He had a large pot about 13 or 14" in diameter like you would use to cook corn on the cob. He would put his fermented mash in that, on top of the kitchen stove, on low heat. He would float a round cake tin with sides about 1" high on top of the mash. He had an old Dodge wheel-disc that was kind of "pointy" at the center, and about 15" diameter. He would set it on top of the big pot, pointy side down, and fill the wheel disc with crushed ice. As the alcohol in the mash evaporated, it would rise up untill it contacted the cold wheel-disc, then condense and run down to the center where it would drip off into the floating cake tin. It worked good for small batches of shine, and if the cops showed up at the door it could be quickly dismantled and dumped---all you had to tell the officer was that you were cleaning the wheel disc in the sink, and "what funny smell officer??? Gee, I don't smell anything!!!!"