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help me please

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I have a pot still with a 2"x3' colum ss 15gall.boiler.I have tried several fruit
washes and get no fruit taste. I have run it fast slow and in between.A friend of mine gave me 3 gall of apracott wine 19% .Excuse my spelling.I ran it off
got about a qt. and a pint.I ran it slow around 3hrs.It had no flavor at all.Please some one tell me what I am doing wrong.
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Dont really know what to say . Ive been doing fruit for years and never had a taste problem. Might be what your expecting in taste.Fruit likker will have a after taste of the fruit its made from if your looking for a stronger fruit taste then that liquer might be what ya need to try.How many time ya runnung it and how far into tails will have a lot to do with flavor.
I use a pot still.Sometimes with a thumper
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Post by goose eye »

is aprecot a fuzless peach. peach is a hard scent to hold.
19 percent is high for holdin flaver an scent.
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goose eye wrote:is aprecot a fuzless peach. peach is a hard scent to hold.
19 percent is high for holdin flaver an scent.
nope a necterine is a fuzless peach.
I use a pot still.Sometimes with a thumper
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Post by Aidas »

Apricot is the boring midget peach ;) Fuzzy, small and not as flavorful as the peach...

so I'm tole.

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the column might be a factor

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my first impression is that your still is efficiently seperating the components of the wash. your column is adding many extra theoretical plates. you need a less effective purification to get more flavor. the flavors may have been purified out of the product.

a simple pot still may do the trick for you.
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Post by runingkind »

Thanks guys,I only ran it once and collected till I only had water coming out.
When I seen it didn't have any flavor I put it with my heads from my sugar washes I've been saving.I have enough copper to build a old fashion pot still with a worm out of 3/8 if 20' is enough.When I get time.I have flavored some sugar washes I have run,but I want to do it the right way and I know I can
thanks again.
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