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I have mostly done birdwachers and wineos, the one I ran today was a thing I tried with rice to see what i i could do but I don't tnink I got it converted right seems like i got almsot exactly what I would have gotten with the sugar alone. i was in a hutty and didn't check the sg this time so i'm no...

I have been playing with this for a while now. i do a lot of reading but very little posting on here. I have an 8 gal reflux system and I can get pretty good stuff but it seems like it comes off different from what I read others do. when i make a run ( 6 gal) it goes exactly the same every time, I m...

you are correct Rad, the % drops off really fast after the 7th pint so I'm not sure if it is worth the extra effort

thanks

I have been working on my distilling and seem to be getting it down. I use mostly Birdwatchers and when I run a batch it comes out like this. out of a 27 l batch , making pint cuts. I through out the first 250 ml then the first pint is usualy 190 proof and you can slightly smell the heads, the next ...

well, I did a stripping run then ran the results with the feints frome tha first run. it came out really good, I could really tell the differents smells in the heads, hearts and tails. should I just keep the heads and tails and run with the next batch?

well, I have a 2nd gneration batch ready. I'm going to run it then run what I get back through along with the feints from the first run. I'll let you know how it comes out

when you run the feints do you run it in pot still mode? also since I have thrown out the fore shots do you still have to do that on the feints run? I kept the middle 4 jars (2 pints) and put the rest aside to run again when I get enough

thanks for the info guys. how much would you consider the middle or hearts of the run? I'm not a big drinker, just doing this for the education and fun of learning somthing new. I can tell a difference in the smells this morning but I tasted all the jars and they all tasted pretty much the same to m...

I just finished my first run in pot still mode ( I actuay used my top part of my reflux column with copper packing and only the out flow condenser) i got 11 jars (1/2 pint about 2/3 full) the abv was 70,65,58,58,53,45,40,35,30,25,20... threw out 250ml foreshots. all of the jars smell pretty good the...

thanks, i think what I did was add the water to the product on two of the jars. I was mixing with filtered water and used the same water for all 4 jars. I was concentrating on getting the % right and didn't really pay attention to which way I was mixing it.
I'll see whats happens next time

I just made my first run on my reflux still. i suprised myself and it came out very well 90% and smelled good. the problem came when I was diluting it. I mixted it with filtered water cut 2 quarts into 4 quarts of 45%. I was using the same jars and the same jug of filtered water but 2 of my finnishe...

Hello everyone,
I have been lurking on here for a long time and desided I neded to be able to ask some questions.
The people on here seem to be the most knowledgeble on all the forums i have read.
Looking forward to learning more as I keep reading.
Thanks for all the help so far