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- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1066
Re: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
Regardless of what proof we are running our gins etc. at, most of us are storing and handling high proof liquor before and after distillations and that is when we have to be very careful. I'm not aware of any distillery disasters that have been initiated by ignition inside a still. Indeed. There ha...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1066
Re: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
Pure ethanol vapor ignites at about 400C. No open flame and or red hot burners and good ventilation it seems like there should be minimal danger of ethanol building up to a point it could be explosive or be ignited. + 1 As both the vapors and fluids are confined to the inside of vessels and pipes, ...
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:48 pm
- Forum: Other Stilling Hardware (condensers, flanges, controllers)
- Topic: Copper Vs Stainless steel condeser
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1180
Re: Copper Vs Stainless steel condeser
There is a study where seperate parts of the still were either copper or ss.
Too lazy to search for it now, but the result was: copper in the rising part and ss in the down part. That has both the benefit of copper in the reactive stage and neutral in the cooling stage.
That was: for whisky.
Too lazy to search for it now, but the result was: copper in the rising part and ss in the down part. That has both the benefit of copper in the reactive stage and neutral in the cooling stage.
That was: for whisky.
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:58 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Celebrating our differences
- Replies: 17
- Views: 928
Re: Celebrating our differences
Hear, hear!
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:07 am
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: Air cooled condenser. I'll NEVER go back to water cooling!
- Replies: 214
- Views: 69349
Re: Air cooled condenser. I'll NEVER go back to water coolin
I did not measure it, but placing wet rags on the cooling spiral may double the capacity (or even triple it?). But you have to pay attention all the time, because they of course dry and need rewetting. But it saves you a lot of water, as the vaporizing heat is much greater than the specific heat of...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 1:22 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Best method to clean tools from motor oil, grease etc.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 427
Re: Best method to clean tools from motor oil, grease etc.
I have the two tools (a pipe wrench and a spanner) I need for my still right next to the stillsite. Took them out of my collection of tools just for my still. Just two tools, so that is no big deal. I once cleaned a chain of a chainsaw by soaking in foreshots/heads and it worked quite well. So if I ...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:13 pm
- Forum: What Not To Use/Do
- Topic: Low wines into a thumper keg
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2644
Re: Low wines into a thumper keg
So, how's the project going? People still use thumpers? :lol: Personally, I'd go with an 'inline vertical thumper' A.K.A. a column. a 3-4 inch diameter by 36" long column stuffed with copper or stainless scrubbers should perform at least as well as a thumper, if not, better. Oh, I use thumpers...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Passing of a legend
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1979
Re: Passing of a legend
Oh shiit!
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:21 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Loaded Thumper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 436
Re: Loaded Thumper
Ah, so it seems the boiler and the thumper were depleted of alcohol at almost the same time! I do not know much about taste, so I can not judge that aspect, but as for the alcohol the backset of 40 % can be treated the same as a low wine of 40 %. It is just 40 % alcohol and 60 % water. Just for this...
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:23 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Loaded Thumper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 436
Re: Loaded Thumper
I tried to make a balance, but I am not sure if I understood your story correctly. You started with (11 + 4 ) @ 40 % = 6 aa (absolute alcohol) You ended with 5.8 @ 75 % = 4.35 aa product and 4 @ 40 % = 1.6 aa backset. This is 5.95 aa in total, which means a loss of 0.05 aa. Not bad. A boiler transpo...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:19 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Experiment: 4 different distilling methods with same wash
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2545
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:06 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Cap and lid liners using PTFE transfer sheets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 605
Re: Cap and lid liners using PTFE transfer sheets
Wonderfull stuff, nothing short of that. But polyfluoralkanes are known as PFAS and both the production and the disposal are very bad for the environment. Which the producing company already knew for a long time, but did not care about. So also very bad for human society. The period of using is only...
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: My second double thumper run
- Replies: 6
- Views: 990
Re: My second double thumper run
Boiler - starting gravity of wash 1.020, measured 1.040 as backset??? <--- this is a mystery to me!!! Can't speak to anything else as I've not even run one thumper let alone two, but this seems normal to me. The gravity is a function of "stuff" in water. You've removed both water and alco...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 2:10 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Thumper
- Replies: 4
- Views: 338
Re: Thumper
What Yummyrum says and it also would be nice if you would:
a) use some interpunction so your texts can be understood and
b) tell us what you are trying to distill. Both in input and output.
a) use some interpunction so your texts can be understood and
b) tell us what you are trying to distill. Both in input and output.
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 12:41 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: 10,000 posts
- Replies: 24
- Views: 831
Re: 10,000 posts
You are one of the few whose posts I always read. Thanks!
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:29 pm
- Forum: Safety and Related Issues
- Topic: PFAS, "forever chemicals," PTFE/Teflon
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1532
Re: PFAS, "forever chemicals," PTFE/Teflon
We have had the same problems with asbestos, plastics and silicone: superior in use, but impossible to get rid of and very harmful in the production. In thermodynamics there is a law of conservation of energy, I firmly believe there is a law of conservation of problem. Each of the so called wonder m...
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: The liar's bench
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 487702
Re: The liar's bench
Sounds like a honourable departure.
- Sat Jun 03, 2023 7:47 am
- Forum: What Not To Use/Do
- Topic: Parchment Paper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1221
- Wed May 03, 2023 3:06 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: ? On double thumper build
- Replies: 11
- Views: 947
Re: ? On double thumper build
Oh, and I found this: https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/ask-t ... come-from/
- Wed May 03, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: ? On double thumper build
- Replies: 11
- Views: 947
Re: ? On double thumper build
I see no point in an extra long arm. A long lyne arm is either a kind of high riser, with a lot of passive reflux, or a kind of condensor, with air cooling. Depending on the angle. Between boiler and thumper or between two thumpers it might effect the overall result. Whether you want it, depends on ...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: I'm baaaack
- Replies: 7
- Views: 446
Re: I'm baaaack
Bonjour monsieur!
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: testing some theroies
- Replies: 4
- Views: 509
Re: testing some theroies
I translated your goal as finding out what sugar bite tastes like. That is: sugar seems to cause a sharp taste (so called bite) in the finished product. Your starting point (do tests!) I support, but I do not see how you can derive conclusions from your experiment. For not only the amount of sugar i...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 2:59 pm
- Forum: What Not To Use/Do
- Topic: condenser from bottles
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1749
Re: condenser from bottles
Ah, now I see what you mean with glass condenser.
Ik rust mijn Kees.
Ik rust mijn Kees.
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello from the Netherlands
- Replies: 7
- Views: 257
Re: Hello from the Netherlands
Did you contact the two Dutch fora?
I think support from other countries and especially from across the ocean is hardly of use for you. Even if/when it is well meant and motivated. Especially when you are in a hurry.
And by the way: what is a glass bottle condenser??
I think support from other countries and especially from across the ocean is hardly of use for you. Even if/when it is well meant and motivated. Especially when you are in a hurry.
And by the way: what is a glass bottle condenser??
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:44 am
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: A Quick Way to Find Reflux Ratio
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1858
Re: A Quick Way to Find Reflux Ratio
Interesting!
I suppose you assume the kW are in total delivered to the fluid. I.e. there is no loss from flame to contents of the boiler. And no loss from boiler to surroundings.
I suppose you assume the kW are in total delivered to the fluid. I.e. there is no loss from flame to contents of the boiler. And no loss from boiler to surroundings.
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:36 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Thumper or not
- Replies: 8
- Views: 602
Re: Thumper or not
As you do not bother to use any interpunction I do hardly understand what you are writing, but the best thing I ever did (distillationwise!) was making adjustments to be able to use any of my boilers as thumpers. From that moment on I could do every experiment that I wanted to do.
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Fresh Dutchie on board
- Replies: 3
- Views: 153
Re: Fresh Dutchie on board
Dit is natuurlijk een heel goed forum, maar je zou misschien ook Nederlandse fora kunnen proberen.
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:15 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Heart Stents
- Replies: 16
- Views: 736
Re: Heart Stents
She dishwares you out?
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:11 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: What are higher alcohols anyway? And methanol discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1107
Re: What are higher alcohols anyway? And methanol discussion
Depends on what you call fore shots, but methanol does come through in the heads. At least in the research articles I have seen. Oh and in the formula R-C-O-H methanol has an R with 0 C-atoms, but 3 H-atoms. Apart from that: your explanation is sound and solid. To many of us a bit superfluous, but ...
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 8:54 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: What are higher alcohols anyway? And methanol discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1107
Re: What are higher alcohols anyway? And methanol discussion
Depends on what you call foreshots, but methanol does come through in the heads. At least in the research articles I have seen. Oh and in the formula R-C-O-H methanol has an R with 0 C-atoms, but 3 H-atoms. Apart from that: your explanation is sound and solid. To many of us a bit superfluous, but in...