Lincoln Country Process Charcoal Filter

[chemeng]

I'm trying to imitate George Dickel (I like JD too, but Dickel is superior in my taste). I have about 4L of white dog "chill mellowing" in the fridge, and I wan't to charcoal filter it. I've already prepared some sugar maple charcoal, but I'm unsure how to charcoal filter on such a small scale.

I know that the Dickel and JD distilleries run their distillate through big vats packed with ground charcoal at ~140 proof. I was thinking I could buy some 2" copper pipe, cut a 6' long strip, and pack it with my charcoal, and pass my white dog through that. My fear is that the copper will give off flavours.

Failing that, I could just wrap my charcoal in cheesecloth and kind of "steep" it to taste.

Thoughts? Has any one tried this on such a small scale?

Thanks!

[Prairiepiss]

There are a few threads out there. You mite have to dig for them.

[Dnderhead]

a felt hat full of charcoal? how about a "refrigerator jar" one of those with a spigot at the bottom.
remove the spigot (its plastic) if you want you could restrict the hole with a cork or other.
one thing to remember is charcoal will retain a lot of spirits.

[chemeng]

I ended up using cheesecloth as a make-shift "teabag" and it worked nicely. ~5 minutes of dunking imparted a nice "char" flavour to the spirit. Coffee filer paper + whatman #1 filter paper filtration got the particulates out, leaving the spirit looking a little darker looking, but not hazy. Now I've diluted to 115 abv, and into the barrel it goes! 4L of spirit into a 5 L charred oak barrel... I'm thinking of putting it next to my shower to make it humid, and letting it sit for 5 weeks.

[frozenthunderbolt]

4L of spirit into a 5 L charred oak barrel... I'm thinking of putting it next to my shower to make it humid, and letting it sit for 5 weeks.

Where i you, i would taste it after two. little barrels add oak faster.

[chemeng]

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

[RumBrewer]

FWIW, The copper tubes packed with charcoal is the exact process used at DownSlope in Centennial Colorado. They are winning awards with everything they make, so I assume it's working for them!