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Bad idea, kind of thought as much

Hi all, just wanted to see which way the wind blew on this idea I have, I am really into making beer at the moment and have all stainless mash tun and boiler, after buying beer related items online I see that they actually sell plastic beer boilers :crazy: which really surprised me, has anyone or wo...

Cheers guys will run it and report back

Yes collected from spirit runs but single runs with thumper, I don't think I did any stripping runs, my reflux does get to 93% so there may be some good stuff in there, @copperhead road if it was yours would you run it through your 5 plated flute ?

Hi, I have accumulated around 30 litres of heads, so probably 50 litres if watered down to safe levels to run in a still, my question is is it worth running the heads through a reflux column with Nixon head, would I get much hearts for the cost of electric or should I use it for bbq lighter fluid ?

StillLearning1 wrote:Sounds good!

I hear letting your washes ferment in the greenhouse can be a good thing for the plants too. Do you also do that?

No mate just age in it, plus no room for plants just whiskey

I have been barreling my UJSSM and soured sweetfeed in 3 litre barrels. I have let them sit a few weeks and went to taste it today (just curious) and it was very spicy and finished hot. It didn't have the smoothness of my other batches I've Oaked with charred oak chips. The oak chips have only take...

Just wanted to share my findings with you all, I have been aging a 50 liter barrel of corn whiskey for 1 year and a 30 liter barrel of barley whiskey for 10 months in my green house, during the day it gets mad hot and at night cool to cold, i have also from the same batches kept a few 1 gallon demij...

rad14701 wrote:Is there also a dam between the reflux return and the product take off port...???

No there is no dam the reflux just runs straight back down the column.

InglisHill wrote:Nice boiler

Thanks, it's a Fusti there Italian for storing olive oil, quite cheep really, just cut a hole in the threaded screw lid and welded on a bread bin, made a washer from cardboard and rapped ptfe tape round it works a treat.

I'm curious about how well your reflux return path is currently... Could you redirect it horizontal into the center of the column...??? Your reflux might be managing to run down the column wall, depending on how the internals are constructed... Having the column a bit off plumb can make a big diffe...

Are you allowing the column to equalize for a bit before you start the takeoff? tp Thanks for the heads up on the equilibrium T-Pee, just had a read up and I ain't giving it anywhere near enough time to equalize, I did used to own a t500, only used the packed column a couple of times on that and I ...

Hi, yes i left it for 5 minutes at first till the nixon condenser was red hot just over half way up before opening the output tap, then I only ran it at a few drops a second, the weird thing is as I upped the output to a thin stream the output went to 82%. Should I be running this at 3kw or a lot lo...

Hi everybody, I could really do with some advice, i made this nixon reflux column yesterday to fit my 100lt boiler, the boiler has a 3kw and 4kw element fitted, just tried it with 9 liters of 80% heads I had mixed in with about 60 liters of water this should be about 10%, the thing is I cannot get o...

Hello everyone, been making whiskey for a while now and want to further my knowledge by making neutral spirits and vodka.