Various still designs

Over the years, the design of distilling stills has improved due to the increased technical knowledge of mankind. As one can learn while surfing over the web, there are many styles.
Each style of still has a different purpose, either producing either clean odor and flavorless alcohol or a more full favored alcohol.

Different still types

An overview of the different styles and their purpose plus some basics design schemes are listed on the following pages:

Pot still
Pot still (Mobile)
Coffey still - Patent Still - Column Still
A continuous still (home coffey type still)
Carterhead Still
Georgia Type Still (steam powered-moonshine still)
Scandinavian designs
Reflux still (High % alcohol content, no flavor)

Low cost, relative low alcohol content and simple designs

Bucket Still
Box still
Solar still

There are also various types of condensors.

Worm condensor, the old fashion set up
Liebigs condensor, the most easy to build and commonly used
Other condensors