Legal Distilleries for Germany

"CopperGarden®" Arabia 2L table-top still, with spirit lamp, steam-distilling sieve and thermometer

This versatile compact copper pot still, ideal for hobby distilling, comes with a sieve, suitable for the steam distillation of beverages and essential oils. You can flavour your spirits with spices to obtain composed alcohols such as gin (with juniper), ouzo (anise and caraway ) etc.

An economical table still with an Arabic design. The copper pot and its forged iron support rest on a solid wooden base. It is delivered complete, with the pot and condenser with spout, an steam sieve, a small copper cup to receive the distillate.

This Arabia Alembic still is appropriate for beginners.

DESTILLIERMEISTER Hobby-E2
Construction of optimized distilleries for over 17 years A registration-free hobby still made of stainless steel. With this beautiful distillery you can make hydrolates, essential oils and distilled water. Easy to use: • approx. Pour 1.7 liters of distilled water into the kettle, • put on the drug basket • fill with herbs or drugs, do not compress, • insert gasket as described below, • put on cover 3. and tighten tension locks 1.1, • insert the distillation bridge 4 into the socket 3.1, • Screw the water hoses to the radiator, connect one end (4.4) to a submersible pump (eg aquarium pump), and the other end (4.5) into the cooling water reservoir. • switch on the heat source and collect at 4.6 hydrolate and oil, • Distill for a maximum of 30 minutes at medium to high heat. The distilling pot and all distillate pipelines are made of stainless steel. The socket for the distillation bridge is made of gunmetal.
The DILLILLIERMEISTER Hobby-E2 is easy to handle. It is ready to use in a few simple steps. For heating, place the distillery on an induction plate. For cooling you need a pot, bucket or bowl of cold water - 10 liters should be enough. With a simple, low-power pump (such as aquarium pump), you can direct water from the reservoir to port 4.4. The hot water leaves the cooling above 4.5. They redirect it back to their water container. Since the cooler is amply sized for its task, a small water flow is sufficient for the cooling.
 

DESTILLIERMEISTER E2-3 Supreme-Plus

Legal and registration-free stainless steel still in heavy quality for essential oils. This still impresses with its particularly solid material quality. With 3 liters of plant space, you have a decent volume in the hobby area to process larger quantities of plants or drugs. By raising the aroma basket (optionally available as an accessory) you can also experiment with smaller quantities, but you should then work with reduced heating power. The steam is generated in an extra boiler under the plant container, so that contact with boiling water can be excluded.
The best thing is: Since the kettle only has a volume of 2 liters despite the large plant container, the DESTILLIERMEISTER E2-3 Supreme-Plus is also legal in Germany and Austria and can be sold and operated without notification to customs.

DESTILLIERMEISTER E2-3 Supreme-Plus

Legal and registration-free stainless steel still in heavy quality with stainless steel analog thermometer for essential oils
This still impresses with its particularly solid material quality. The temperature is measured exactly in the plant room, where it is of interest. The Alambic brand thermometer is solid, the housing is made of stainless steel. It measures exactly to the degree.
With 3 liters of plant space, you have a decent volume in the hobby area to process larger quantities of plants or drugs. By raising the aroma basket (optionally available as an accessory) you can also experiment with smaller quantities, but you should then work with reduced heating power. The steam is generated in an extra boiler under the plant container, so that contact with boiling water can be excluded.
The best thing is: Since the kettle only has a volume of 2 liters despite the large plant container, the DESTILLIERMEISTER E2-3 Supreme-Plus is also legal in Germany and Austria and can be sold and operated without notification to customs.

DESTILLIERMEISTER E2-4 Supreme

New 2020 model with reduced overall height and longer cooler with reduced water consumption.
Legal, registration-free stainless steel still for essential oils with a full 4 liters of plant space.

20 ml Essenial Oil within 15 Minutes
With over 4 liters of plant space they have plenty of volume to process even larger amounts of plants or drugs. By raising the aroma basket you can also experiment with smaller amounts, but they should then work with reduced heating power. The steam is produced in an extra boiler under the plant container, so that a contact with boiling water can be excluded. The best thing is: Since the kettle is only 2 liters in volume despite the large plant container, the DESTILLIERMEISTER E2-4 Supreme is also legal in Germany and Austria and may be sold and operated without notification.
Simpel handing:

• Pour 1.8 liters of water into the water / steam boiler,
• Place up to 4 liters of plant pipe and close with tension locks,
• Insert aroma basket,
• fill with up to 4 liters of herbs or drugs - do not compress,
• seal as described below
• fit cover 5. and tighten tension locks 4.1,
• insert distillation bridge 6 in socket 5.1,
• screw the coolant hoses to the cooler,
• switch on the heat source and collect oil and Hydrolat at 6.6,
• distill for a maximum of 15 to a maximum of 20 minutes at a higher power (induction plate 2000 watts).

Water / steam tank and plant / drug tube, as well as all distillate leading pipelines are made in high quality stainless steel.

DESTILLIERMEISTER E2-55 Premium Plus - Top Model 2023

Legal and registration-free stainless steel still optimized for the distillation of essential oils with a large capacity for flowers and leaves

30 ml Essential Oil in 16 Minutes

The report-free DESTILLIERMEISTER E2 - 55 Premium Plus Model 2023 has been revised again. The stand is now manufactured in such a way that the kettle can be removed from the system to refill it with plants or water and the cooling system with riser pipe and lid remains standing. Working will therefore become faster and therefore more economical. The next distillation can start within a few minutes.

Everything else had already been improved in the 2022 model. The pre-condenser for the pressure loss-free transition to liquefy the steam into the cooler has been designed to be longer and bent. The distillate cooler is now designed in a winding shape instead of the bulky Liebig cooler and is still longer. This means that the entire system is significantly more compact and the cooling water consumption has been significantly reduced thanks to the overall longer cooling length. The kettle has the legally permitted bubble size of 2 liters, but the plant tube has a total volume of a whopping 5.5 liters. This makes it probably one of the largest legal and registration-free distilleries for essential oils. The riser pipe of the Premium model is insulated to minimize drip losses. This means that the premium model is optimized for the extraction of essential oils and hydrosols.
The steam is liquefied in the pre-condenser, so that the cross-sectional reduction occurs when it passes into the final cooler without any pressure loss. Note: Pressure losses in the piping system act as a pressure increase in the plant pipe, so the steam has to work against a pressure mountain. This leads to hydrosol and oil dripping back, which leads to significant losses. This also increases the temperature in the plant tube because the boiling point increases. This damages the essential oils and reduces their quality.