rad14701 wrote:Run into your tails as deep as you feel is worth your time and effort... Because I mainly run my still in LM reflux mode it really isn't worth my time to collect tails, which only amount to a couple ounces from my usual 2 gallon boiler charge... In pot still mode the cuts are smeared so I go deeper and collect more...
now are you talking about the stripping run or a spirit run?
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Mr.Spooky wrote:Run into your tails as deep as you feel is worth your time and effort...
Recon he's talking about a strip run Spook.
Cuz your refluxing on your spirit run, there prolly ain't enough tails to make it worth the wait.
Your gonna hit your tails with a higher abv than with a pot run, but there ain't gonna be much there. Your Bok will do a better job of squeezing. Just gonna take a lot longer.
I thought he was pot stilling.... In any case the advice holds for both. for a stripping run, you are recovering alcohol and saving having to dilute your low wines. In a spirit run, you are wanting to reclaim as much alcohol outside hearts as is convenient / practical / economical to use as feints, which you can add back to future runs or do all feints runs. In both cases 20%abv is a commonly accepted figure (for pot stilling).
yea, im pot stillin. i figure on my stripping runs , i go down to abouut 40%abv,,, or 80 proof. i think thats right,,, and then stop collecting. on my spirit runs, for now i guess that im gonna stop collecting at about 70% or somewhere inbetween 120 or 140 proof.
i gotta quick question. sence i wont be getting near as much product as i was before (doing it the wrong way) i was wandering if i could collect all of my stripping runs and save them up in a spare keg and once that gets close to a full charge just use that. that way ill always have a boiler in rotation. i dont really wanna use glass carboys because #1 its glass and that breaks, and #2 if i could use a keg, well, its one container, and i can just flop it up on the cooker.
thanks
spooky
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Mr.Spooky wrote:yea, im pot stillin. i figure on my stripping runs , i go down to abouut 40%abv,,, or 80 proof. i think thats right,,, and then stop collecting. on my spirit runs, for now i guess that im gonna stop collecting at about 70% or somewhere inbetween 120 or 140 proof.
i gotta quick question. sence i wont be getting near as much product as i was before (doing it the wrong way) i was wandering if i could collect all of my stripping runs and save them up in a spare keg and once that gets close to a full charge just use that. that way ill always have a boiler in rotation. i dont really wanna use glass carboys because #1 its glass and that breaks, and #2 if i could use a keg, well, its one container, and i can just flop it up on the cooker.
thanks
spooky
You've pretty much described my system there mate. It works good. gotta love modular boilers. Only difference is I stop at 20% on stripping, and same on spirit run. plenty of goodness in those feints you can extract later.
yep when stripping take it down to 20% or when you feel that it does not pay for what little your getting, then do the same with spirits run,
stop saving harts by taste or however you want , but keep going the "feints" can be added to your next run or stripping run. this works best if your
doing multiple runs the same, if each batch is different , then save "feints" to run off as a neutral.
Mr.Spooky wrote:yea, thats me too. i aint never put a thumper on it. that seems like the thing to do though. i might look into that. right now im gettin ready to try my hand at my first uncle J's sour mash. all iv ever done is sugar washes. this should be interesting. im gonna be putin it together here in a few minuets, so i guess it might be ready by next weekend.
so im doing my first uj's sour mash and i think that its stuck or something. i put it on yesterday, and about 12 hours later or so, i could here it workin. i got airlocks on my fermenters, but i dont think the lids were silled because they werent bubblin. but now i cant hear it workin. i had the fermenters in the tub, in the xtra bathroom whewre the temp was about 80ish. i just moved them outside where the temp is in the high 90s. i hope that this will set it off. i dont have a problem with the ffmw cause i think that it has so much yeast in it ,,, but the first wash i ever tried (witch was a disaster) turned to vinigar. and now this one isnt seeming to do much better.
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Spooky, you're behaving like a chook with one chicken. Leave it alone! Did you re-hdrate the yeast or make a starter?
Provided you followed the directions carefully, it will work. EveniIf you changed things it will probably still work, unless you didnt add sugar of course.
Twelve hours isn't very long. Give it a chance for heavens sake. This is definately not a craft for the impatient.
blanik
Simple potstiller. Slow, single run.
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lol thats funny.... but i understand your point. thanks for the advice!