Alcohol boiling point

E85 · Post by **E85** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:24 am

Hello everyone.

I have a question about the boiling point of ethanol. If the mash was heated to just above the boiling point of alcohol, but lower then water's point, would you get just alcohol vapor? Or would it still be a mixture of the two?

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:36 am

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possum · Post by **possum** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:10 am

You would collect a mixture. This is what happens when you use a doubble boiler.

The Chemist · Post by **The Chemist** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:54 pm

First off, you can't raise the temperature of an ethanol/water mixture above the boiling point of the azeotrope,78 deg. C. Second, you can't distill pure ethanol from water because of the azeotrope.