Foreshots the pro's

[Fed]

G'day all,

I watched a doco on how Jack Daniels is made. From what i can see, they use. Continuise still, wash goes in the top, runs over heated copper plates and is collected. How do they separate their foreshots?

Just curious

[DAD300]

you'll laugh and tell me I'm full of it...they don't!

They use every drop, filter and age. Fores are part of what escapes from the barrels.

[MitchyBourbon]

Some continuous stills are capable of making cuts. Not quite as we know them but it achieves a certain level of similarity. Everything, the fores, heads, hearts and tails comes over at the same time and is collected and drawn off separate parrots. Each takeoff is adjustable so you can make "cuts" as tight as you want. That said, I doubt many of the continuous stills in operation today have this capability.

Here's one, take a look.
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[bearriver]

+1 Mitchy

Cruzan rum has a continuous still with draws at each plate, claiming each plate draws a different fraction from the run. The master distiller there says that plate 17 (or whatever one it is) is the one they use to collect the spirits, with plates above to collect the unwanted fractions thus simulating cuts.

Does it actually work? Hell I don't know.

[underdog]

Hi Bear!

I've done the Cruzan tour on St. Croix. It's the best $4 I ever spent.
In the oil refining world, multiple plate (we call them trays) columns are the norm for continuous distillation processes.
They work really well and are capable of putting out extremely pure products.

[MitchyBourbon]

I don't know if it works either, I'm just a simple pot stiller.