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- Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:09 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Can reuse what’s in the slobber box?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9623
Re: Can reuse what’s in the slobber box?
Can someone explain to me why this structure would preferentially condenser lower volatility compounds and not fill with high-volatility compounds especially during initial phases when the device is cold? Trying to learn so I can write up something better for the wiki
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:43 am
- Forum: Wiki Editors
- Topic: Made some updates
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2796
Re: Made some updates
I've only ever thought of slobber boxes as a device to catch pukes. However this thread has me thinking again, since apparently they're being used in poland and maybe the netherlands. https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=76647&start=30 It was the thing that sent me re-resear...
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:29 am
- Forum: Wiki Editors
- Topic: Made some updates
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2796
Re: Made some updates
Glad to help out where I can! It really is the best way to (ahem) distill the wisdom from the forums into a collected set of authoritative information. Just need to keep tweaking it and working on it. Now I have my wiki login I will modify some things where I can see straight away I can improving th...
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:23 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: New Brewer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1351
Re: New Brewer
Sounds like a uni education - 6 years in including post-grad studies, and you're about to step into the real world and put some stuff into practice... all the best! welcome to the club...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 7:07 pm
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: Condenser Controlled Columns
- Replies: 378
- Views: 155856
Re: Condenser Controlled Columns
Also how do you control the water temperature into the condenser, at the top of the column. Dad300 says stay around 130 degrees and mentions something about a hot tub. Do you have to use hot water? I'm not sure where you are from; a USA 'hot tub' is a 'spa pool' elsewhere. And no, you don't run hot...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Vinegar run AND Sacrificial run?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1019
Re: Vinegar run AND Sacrificial run?
Well done on the self-research, you are spot on.
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:20 pm
- Forum: Wiki Editors
- Topic: Made some updates
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2796
Made some updates
I have refined some bits specifically to do with methanol - the definition page for methanol, the safety page section on methanol, and the definition of congeners. There were several things that needed to be made consistent and/or clarified * the safety section suggested that methanol was in the hea...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:17 am
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: DIMROTH CONDENSER
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3534
Re: DIMROTH CONDENSER
You dont have to cut the spear. The valve is held on by spring tension as I described. You will need a "recessless triclamp ferule" to attach the spear to your product pipe. If you search keg spear in the condenser section of the hardware portion of this site you will find DAD's build Oh,...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello from Niagara Falls,NY
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1002
Re: Hello from Niagara Falls,NY
Always nice when the commercial outfits join in!
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 10:03 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: PBW for copper
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1038
Re: PBW for copper
Good work there
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:10 pm
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: DIMROTH CONDENSER
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3534
Re: DIMROTH CONDENSER
Fivey that looks to be it. I read that before also and didn’t understand it’s usage. In your parts list you suggested a shotgun condenser. Is this better, same, equal? The measure of a condenser is "does it get the job done?" The basis for 'better' comes in other qualities - cost, length,...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:00 pm
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: DIMROTH CONDENSER
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3534
Re: DIMROTH CONDENSER
That video shows removal of a keg spear. To use the spear as a product condenser you will need to remove the sanke valve from the spear. Just push and twist like a childproof prescription bottle cap. The spear requires a special 1.5 inch triclamp, I dont recall the term, but it's in DADs postings I...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:33 pm
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: DIMROTH CONDENSER
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3534
Re: DIMROTH CONDENSER
OK, I think when you are talking about DADs condenser with the keg spear, you are talking about this: https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=41579&hilit=controlled&start=30#p7105600 And that is pretty cool for a product condenser. But for a reflux condenser at the top of the...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:14 pm
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: DIMROTH CONDENSER
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3534
Re: DIMROTH CONDENSER
Just to be clear, you would like to use CSST for both condensers?
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:47 pm
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: DIMROTH CONDENSER
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3534
Re: DIMROTH CONDENSER
In my first build I used CSST in a SS spool as a product condenser. I'm not sure I'd call it a dimroth, it was a twist-of-CSST-stuffed-in-a-pipe condenser, and it did the job. It had the advantages of being relatively easy to make and pretty darn cheap. It wasn't pretty, but then neither am I. EDIT ...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 11:45 am
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: 3" or 4" column?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5699
Re: 3" or 4" column?
I am not so sure why we keep seeing an increase of comments regarding VM or CCVM being faster than Boka ( LM) I’d like to know where this idea come from ? Reflux ratio , packing type , hieght of column ... all these things effect purity . How does still head type. alter any of that ? Don't know abo...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 11:39 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: how to make whiskey? Basics.
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6770
Re: how to make whiskey? Basics.
I am considering buying a 53 gallon used canadian whiskey barrel because it costs me only $100. that is insanely cheap. the cooper belongs to our private club and can make anything i need. any size, any charring, any type of used: put around half a gallon into the 53 gallon used canadian whiskey ba...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 3:19 am
- Forum: New distiller reading Lounge
- Topic: reflux ratio:congeners
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11552
Re: reflux ratio:congeners
Eh? Now you are being very confusing with your questions.
I was addressing your querying about some slow technique that would somehow do something special with fores, and was trying to cut you off at the pass because that is a blind canyon. It has nothing to do with plates or vapor speed.
I was addressing your querying about some slow technique that would somehow do something special with fores, and was trying to cut you off at the pass because that is a blind canyon. It has nothing to do with plates or vapor speed.
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:04 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Newbie from Ohio
- Replies: 3
- Views: 866
Re: Newbie from Ohio
Yup, and check out the links at the bottom of the page for some other places to get started on some good info. Remember to do your cleaning runs! Vinegar then a sacrificial alcohol run! This isn't superstition, it is safety!
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:01 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 1037950
Re: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
Distillers yeast, I just followed the calc that was posted for BWs. I stopped at 1/4th qt of tails because it was starting to slow down, and did not want to waste the power. I have now started to strip the runs pot still, and spirit run them in reflux at once. Did not check abv in strip runs but sp...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:50 am
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: 3" or 4" column?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5699
Re: 3" or 4" column?
I think I will also keep with the Boka design. I will do some more reading on the ccvm as others have mentioned before my final decision. I need to research what benefits I would incur. Not sure why it would be an advantage yet. Are they faster? Can I still get the highest % with a ccvm? lots of re...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:44 am
- Forum: Gin
- Topic: Gin Botanical Confusion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3791
Re: Gin Botanical Confusion
I research too much, and apply the same method as you. That being said, I rarely follow the same things everyone else is doing. I am just trying to research the best way to do this within the constraints I want. Just bear in mind that 'what everyone else is doing' is often otherwise described as 't...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:38 am
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: Condenser-to-Dephlegmator
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5905
Re: Condenser-to-Dephlegmator
I have a 25 gal reservoir and a closed 4 gallon worm condenser with water in/out with hose fittings/drain. Yeah 25 gal isn't huge. I have over 200L (50+ US gal) and I often wish it were more/ think about getting another 200L reservoir. Cayars option 4 suggestion is essentially a compromise between ...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:22 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello from ND
- Replies: 2
- Views: 686
Re: Hello from ND
Sweet! Excited to have you here!
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:13 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello from the Colorado Rockies
- Replies: 1
- Views: 672
Re: Hello from the Colorado Rockies
Cool, welcome aboard. Tell us a bit more about you and what you want out of your still maybe?
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:00 am
- Forum: New distiller reading Lounge
- Topic: reflux ratio:congeners
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11552
Re: reflux ratio:congeners
Boiling the wash, getting it in full reflux and then opening to start taking off product, discarding the foreshots is the correct strategy. There is no carefully slowly raising the temp and beginning foreshots process early, that isn't how it works. I suspect you may be thinking you will be taking o...
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 12:52 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 1037950
Re: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
I know it will very depending on a lot of factors, but... On average how much heads are you guys pulling off each run? Why do you ask? When you cut, are you getting a high proportion of product you are ranking as heads, and you want to see if that is normal? Or are you just curious as to how much h...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: First run with new still
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1642
Re: First run with new still
About half way through it went from 93 to 88 and had a tails smell which was weird. kind of like how the temp bounces around during the beginning until it levels out. i guess from sudden drops of liquid onto temp prob or a sudden condensation that upset the equilibrium. what kind of unit? a reflux ...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:50 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: First run with new still
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1642
Re: First run with new still
I was collecting at about 93% and didnt want to start collecting faster because I'm still new to it and didnt want any smearing. About half way through it went from 93 to 88 and had a tails smell which was weird. Then the next jar went back to 93 and smelled good again. Not sure what was happening ...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:47 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Pump placement for cooling system
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1651
Re: Pump placement for cooling system
No point adding additional heat to the coolant water...