Eh, I'm working off the last cup of coffee from work anyway.

If you've been following this, there are three parts to a "right way" still. The still itself, the cap arm and the worm. There are four to a "wrong way" still. The still itself (oil tank) cap arm (plastic pipe) a thump barrel (first fifty-five gallon drum and then the worm (old car radiator sitting inside the second barrel).

Right way:

When your beer is ready, pour the first barrel into the still, light the furnace and stir constantly until it comes to a rolling boil, then seal everything well with rye paste. As soon as the still is sealed, wash the empty barrel out well and put it near the worm.

Some steam will make it's way out of the worm. This will be followed by a short gush of liquid. Drink this at your own peril. The dirt is a good place for this stuff. More steam for a bit, then a constant flow of liquid.

You did build a filter into the five gallon bucket from my "must have" list. right? As it comes out of the worm, let it fall through the bucket/filter and out the hole drilled in the bottom. Catch it and put it into the cleaned out barrel the beer came from.

Nope, no whiskey yet. This stuff is called "singles". Needs to be doubled. Once you've run every barrel of beer, wash out the still and put everything you distilled back into the still and repeat the process.

Now you've got whiskey. A whole eight or ten gallons of it. And probably only cost you a thousand bucks in material (you seen copper prices lately?!) and a week or more of your life. And ten years, if you got caught doing something this dumb.

Wrong way:

Fill the oil tank up with beer. Fill your thump barrel about half full of beer. Run as before, but only that first barrel.

Now take the singles from the first run and put them in the thump barrel instead of beer. Your next run of beer, instead of producing more singles, will now produce whiskey. There is an alternation sequence to singles and whiskey, but I'm not overly familiar with it and since it's the easiest method and possibly most tempting, I'll skip it.