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After looking at your picture and taking the time to view all the bits and bobs
I can only say MEGA well done thats a thing of beauty I shall take a few mins to myself in a dark room

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Hi Crazy Welcome to the Uk , sorry the UK is shut today due to bad weather but will re open shortly (thats normal here in the UK bit of snow and everything stops hope no bad guys work this out and buy a couple of snow makers they would take over the UK in a week ) but anyway nice set up , i run a t5...

looks good happy stilling

Hi Gents With ref to the molasses it took me an age to find it in the UK in 25kg tubs but find it I did from a catering company BAKO of london and south east look them up was a good price also do loads of other stuff for making a wash not sure if you can buy direct from catering companies in the USA...

Hi JPL
Sorry no the name came from my dog as she looks like a big rat and kills anything that moves

good looking still
enjoy
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do you leave them in when pot stilling or just use the liquil
seems to be going real well the skins are moving up and down bit like a larva lamp
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Hi All Had a bumper crop of grapes this year so pressed them a and made some wine just to see if i could but after pressing I had a large pile of grape skins and plup (grapes are seedless ) had a look on interweb to see what i could do with them and grapper came up so not wanting to waste anything i...

looks good
time for a happy dance

LWTCS just remember the old
I would like be there during its commissioning to check alls well and short any minor issues if any arise

thanks to all lots to think about

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i am going to run the 5 gal i got then do the spirit run
leave it to air for a day or so then go for it the barrels are only small 3lt oak med charr

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Hi Sporacle yer I am a bit of a wimp when it comes to the lower stuff tend to put the stuff below 40% in a jar and put in my next run (so have a jar of real low stuff to put in my next run) will take the next run right down and mix it all together for my spirit run adding backset to the boiler for t...

thank you backset is what I was thinking of sorry for not being clear I have got it in my head that I read somewhere that if you put some backset in with your low wines it can carry over more flavor in your spirit run have checked my notes last night and have done this with a rum i did sometime ago ...

sorry nice jars

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Hi Lloyd I run a t500 in the UK with both the pot still dome and the reflux and have had no issues and got good neutral using both when runing as pot still they are right you need to strip and then spirit run but using the the reflux it comes out sweet as runing at 90 -94 % ABV but always put the fi...

Hi All Just doing a bourbon run , have done one stripping run and about to do the second (split in to 2 barrels ) just wanting to know would it be better to save the spent wash and use it to add in to my spirit run or just use spring water the end result will be going into an oak barrel and being le...

Hi great to see another brit on here , if you are after molasses try bako of london they will post it out to you in 25 kg tubs for about £60 last time i had some in jan 22 try checking out local catering wholesalers on line you can get sugar in 25kg bags and all manor of goodies for brewing and maki...

Brill Story
Lets be honest we have all made some mayor cock upps doing this but thats the fun part , keep stilling

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Hi Bob I have the t500 reflux and dome On a sugar wash spirit run I would get about 3.5 ltrs of clean neutral at about 92% -94% ABV . keep temp around 55-60 c , I put the first 200ml in my cleaning jar and just fill a load of jars untill it ends drop to about 60% AVB and carbon filter it . then test...

thanks to jonnys_spirit have been and look at the posts now i see , everydays a school day . not done many double runs a strip then spirit run as my still gives a good product or so i was thinking . going to double run my next lot of mixed berrys and see what the diferance is i have never ran a AG w...

thanks makes sence

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just a thing i have been doing to polish my product TBH did not think about taking out flavour
used the carbon on nentral spirit just to smooth it out

bad habbit thanks for pointing it out

Sorry was single run on a pot still , the brandy was clear
what i got was like a sedament in it after a few days floating in patches like little clouds it went blue in the coffee filter but looked white/grey in the jar
its not come back

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i've only been doing this since lockdown in the UK started so not that long really but have loved it and still loving it but like above i read everthing and anything about this hobbie and took notes lots of notes found this site and never looked back reflux + sugar wash no issues as such on first ti...

no not really but could post it out if you want it

was thinking more about the brandy to be fair

Hi everyone Got a bit of a odd one . I did a mixed berry mash/wine (black currant and red currant) with the idea to bottle some and distill some to make a brandy ended up with some nice stuff so rack off 10 bottles as wine and distilled the rest . all went well got a good volume at around 65/70% ABV...

never made a coil but i do make things from wood , someone asked me to make a thing for plans to climb up in a spiral using some willow . the jig i made was 2 boards clamped together then drilled holes with the space between i wanted then cut the boards down the centre . set one at base point then s...

yer NZ i do much the same, but you get a lot of mixed information some it does remove falvor others is does not , even got one that said reflux or pot made little differance which i know to be untrue after doing my own tests .the flavor needs to be there at the start to do your cuts justice , i thin...

hi all NZchris think it did remove some flavor but re stilling would have done the same i think, i run a T500 without a power controler and get very clean spirit only done a redistill a couple of times that was to make a real pure neutral and a molasse rum Saltbush Nice link thanks , bit more brain ...