Dilute neutral spirits - whats best to use

Paulwhy · Post by **Paulwhy** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:31 pm

Whats the best type of water to use for diluting neutral spirits?
Distilled , purified , demineralised etc?

I was going to distill water in my still to use, but I found you need a pretty powerful condensor to do this.

zeff · Post by **zeff** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:48 pm

The aim when making neutral spirits to have it free from all impurites so i use distilled water, however some people use purified water becuase the prefer the taste. Id just use distilled from the supermarket.....its cheap and much easier than distilling your own

Post by **golden pond** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:06 am

I like pure spring water myself.

Bujapat · Post by **Bujapat** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:54 am

I use spring water. Here is a spring 300 m far from house in the village! Neighbors think I drink a lot of water!!!

PseudoX · Post by **PseudoX** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:14 pm

I just use tap water myself.

Mind you, im in Tasmania where we have the cleanest drinking water in Australia.

For kicks one day I might drive up Mt Wellington, and get a heap of fresh spring water and use that

hornedrhodent · Post by **hornedrhodent** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:27 am

Paulwhy wrote: I was going to distill water in my still to use, but I found you need a pretty powerful condensor to do this.

Water has a higher boiling point so should be easier to condense but has a greater latent heat of evaporation so you may need to remove more heat for a given amount of condensate. Even if you cant cool it well enough to prevent some steam coming out, the water you condense should be pure.

Can you reduce your heat input?

Uncle Remus · Post by **Uncle Remus** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:45 am

EVER TASTE DISTILLED WATER? YEEUCK!

hornedrhodent · Post by **hornedrhodent** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:25 am

Uncle Remus wrote:EVER TASTE DISTILLED WATER? YEEUCK!

Do you prefer boer water - even when the old pig is wallowing in it? (ore/oer/oar)

Post by **golden pond** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:21 am

Uncle Remus wrote:EVER TASTE DISTILLED WATER? YEEUCK!

Only thing I know distilled water is good for, is machines that cannot use water with iron content in it, EDM and such. It sure aint fit to drink

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:18 am

larger quantities of distilled water are not healthy to drink
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Watershed · Post by **Watershed** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:56 am

that's only the case if you're not ingesting anything else so you end up depleting your electrolytes, any form of food along side will give you enough.

I use boiled tap water - boiled just to precipitate all the damned carbonate salts in this area that otherwise drop out as white flakes in the spirit.

maze48 · Post by **maze48** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:02 am

I use reverse osmosis to clean the water. I have well water and use a softener.

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Dilute neutral spirits - whats best to use

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