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When I run my reflux my heads, hearts and tails are all the same ABV. Stopping at 110 proof is leaving a lot of good stuff in the boiler. Most run down to 40 proof. Are you doing strip and spirit runs or just single runs? Thanks for the help sorry I asked to many questions for the admin, I will nev...

my runs are taking 8 hrs basically an hr a 200ml jar I may be running to slow..lol

When I run my reflux my heads, hearts and tails are all the same ABV. Stopping at 110 proof is leaving a lot of good stuff in the boiler. Most run down to 40 proof. Are you doing strip and spirit runs or just single runs? Thanks for the conformation on the high abv, I haven't tried a striping run y...

It's hard to tell but it sounds like you are trying to make cuts by temperature and/or ABV. That would be the first problem. Read Kiwis' guide. http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11640 While you're there read everything else in that section as well. That will probably answer th...

I run a CM. That said, running I always run flavored drink at 80% or thereabouts. Running higher will require a lot more blending back of the low heads/high tails and that gets tricky...especially for a new stiller. Above 80% and the hearts won't have a whole lot of flavor/nose. Your hearts will be...

Monkeyman88 wrote:Do you water down to 40% or below when tasting? What % do you stop collecting at?

Yes 1/2 water on a teaspoon and I spit it out..

jar 1-2 was 186
jar 3 was 184
jar 4-5 was 182
jar 6 was 180
jar 7 was 172
Jar 8 was 150
Jar 9 was 110

Then it started to smell like dog hair...

My mash has 7.5 gallons of water 2.5 gallons of back set 14 pound of sugar and it started with 14 pounds of corn. I now just scoop out the floating corn an replace that with new corn and add 14 pounds of sugar for every new wash. And your not being rude. When you guy make your runs do you have a lot...

With 10gal of wash at 5% you have less then 1/2gal of ethanol. So about 1gal at 40%. With very wide cuts, probably around 1/2 gal for keeping. Your correct I get 7-8 jars at 200ml around 2 cups a jar. Like I said before the last jars have less of a bite and a sweeter taste like the should as the ru...

Mile High 3" combo tower limited packing, I also have a 5500 watt heater with a keg as my boiler on a controler. I have run 3 runs of ujsm I seem to be getting more heads then hearts, I start at around 186 proof it will produce 1000 ml of product, it drops to 184-172 for another 1000ml of prod...

Its a 15 gallon keg I've done 10 gallon mash's and 5 gallon mash's I use everything smell,taste and abv and temp. But I concentrate on smell and taste. The first 6 jars all smell and taste the same. Same I can defiantly smell the change and taste for the first jars to the hearts where the bite is a ...

Mile High 3" combo tower limited packing, I also have a 5500 watt heater with a keg as my boiler on a controler. I have run 3 runs of ujsm I seem to be getting more heads then hearts, I start at around 186 proof it will produce 1000 ml of product, it drops to 184-172 for another 1000ml of produ...

Grey if you didn't use the 110 relay where would the switch be wired?

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Hello new to the forum, trying to complete my 5500 watt controller..