Normally that's exactly what I'd do, but to comfortably cover the element I'll need to run probably three washes (I need 9.5 litres after stilling). Maybe 2 if I respect the watering down that Buccaneer Bob recommends which would take me to roughly 20L in the pot. Molasses are not that cheap here, and for this test I just paid about 25€ for a 4,5L jug, and since I've not actually drunk much rum at all, I don't know how much of the product we'll end up consuming so I didn't really want to put lots of money into raw materials right now. I've got some possible routes for getting more molasses in the future but I want to test first.Reaverman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:36 pmI mean low winesReaverman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:41 pmCouldn't you just dilute the wash down with water, so that it can cover the elements?NormandieStill wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 12:17 pm So I'm looking at doing a run of this if I can. I'll be making a dunder pit from the backset of a wheat whisky stripping run and I have a litre of the trub from the same in a bottle ready for use. The molasses have been ordered. Just going to have to accept that in order to do the spirit run, I'll probably have to do it on the hob as there's no way I'll have enough liquid to cover the element in my keg.
I could do a scaled down version and run the spirit run in the gin still (~4.5L charge) but I worry that the cuts may start getting complicated and the workload is basically the same for half the product.