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I have a 36"X 3" ss CCVM column. I went with the 1/10th of the column for the diameter of the packing(.300") Sorry, metric guy here. .300" makes 7.62 mm in diameter. That's too large for such a short column. For a 2" column 1 meter long either 3.5x3.5 mm or 4x4 mm is recomm...

Oatmeal wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:15 am Does it also add flavor?

None that I can taste. Sambuca by itself has an overwhelmingly strong flavor.

I've got a pack of Thai blue tea (clitoria ternatea, butterfly pea). So I decided I'd tint my homemade sambuca light blue... The recipe on the pack says, "put 10-20 dried flowers per liter of beverage, infuse for 2 weeks, filter the flowers out". I put 12 flowers per liter (seemed not too ...

It all looks good to me, only thing I can think is that maybe 1.8L per hour is a bit fast for 2 inch still, however your high ABV isnt indicating that your running to fast, to fast it would be lower I would think. I am running at 30 ml per 10 minutes - that is 180 milliliters per hour, not 1800. Lo...

What ABV is your CCVM pulling? is it packed properly with mesh or other packing? is it insulated ? At what speed are you pulling product from the still?...how many Ml in 10 min for arguments sake. what size column...length and diameter. Without knowing those things its very hard to say. It's pullin...

So okay, I've collected about 20 liters of feints at 26% ABV. These were mostly tails, plus some failed experiments to make homemade cognac, plus some low wines I kept aside and forgot about, etc. There were no heads in there - I always dump heads separately to use as sanitizer. Why not put it throu...

Hello from Russia.

I am relatively new to the hobby (done less than 10 runs, mostly sugar wash followed by neutral spirits, followed by gins/liquers).

Angelica, grapefruit, lemon myrtle, lemon aspen, mango, green cardamon, vanilla and black pepper. I use hints on quantities from here, gin always comes out nice: https://www.lovebrewing.co.uk/guides/gin-recipes-using-botanicals/ So I'd use the following quantities per litre for a base: 1 part junip...