I'm starting the build on a 3" bubble plate column today. I've decided to go for 2 sections, one with 4 plates and one with 6 plates, so I can run at a max of 10 plates if I wanted but still run at 4 if I want more flavour for aged spirits.
My question to you lovely people is... is there an ideal distance between the plates for a 3" column? This question has been put in my head by this comment on another thread:
Do I want to be at least 3" apart on a 3" column or do I need more?zapata wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:18 pm Yup, that is called entrainment. It's why commercial plated columns have so much space between each plate, why commercial pot stills have such huge onions on them, and why hobby stills of all sorts taste bad when run too hard even if they don't puke, flood, blow up or run detectably out of spec for expected output.
Cheers,
Copper