I'm still learning how to make cuts by taste. I tried several ways of tasting while distilling but the easiest one I found was capturing a small amount of distillate in a glass, pull out 2ml distillate with a syringe, put in a tablespoon and add 3ml of water (my reflux produces around 90 ABV).
This way you avoid the fuss with measuring beakers and capturing larger amounts of distillate while keeping a consistent distillate-water ratio.
The problem, of course, is the plastic syringe and the rubber plunger.
So I wondered whether glass syringes still existed and it turns out they are plenty available on the fleebay. They are not expensive.
This keeps everything nice and plastic-free.
Perhaps this is already a known way of doing things but I hadn't read about it yet.
Glass syringe: easy tasting directly from the still
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I applaud your style.
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Re: Glass syringe: easy tasting directly from the still
I use 10ml glass pipettes and a pipette pump. Pretty accurate to a bit more than 1/10th ml and the product only touches glass. Cheap and amazon too. You can get different sizes for different sample amounts and finer accuracy.
Cheers!
-jonny
Cheers!
-jonny
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i prefer my mash shaken, not stirred
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i prefer my mash shaken, not stirred
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