thecroweater wrote:Copper in the condenser is not copper in the vapour path, no doubt its doing a bit to help but obviously not enough.
Yeah, I have a bit of a copper riser that I, at some time, stuffed with stripped copper electrical wire. Didn't work either.
The correct answer is build a copper pot still , other than that you can probably loosely pack with copper mesh. Pot stills should be copper and then this problem does not arise in the first place to need fixing.
Sorry but I'm not willing to just accept that, not after all the advice given before didn't make enough of a difference in my situation.
I don't see any drawback to letting wash/low wines sit for a while with a piece of copper in them and I don't have to try to source a copper pot. Had enough of a hard time getting copper tube for my coil where I live.
Someone with much more copper in the upside of their still than I have in mine has already tested it and the results are positive for resting on copper, everyone is free to take that or leave it as well.
Edit copper in the ferment won't help and is not a good idea, it will stress the hell out of the yeast
Do you guys even read threads before you reply to them? I already tried it and it was a major improvement. Didn't slow the yeast down one bit although it needed a little more cleaning afterwards.
EDIT: And by "more cleaning" I don't mean more than my usual batch, it was way better than anything I could ever remember, but there was still a hint of the flaw that was taken care of with a little more time on copper.