further refining a refined sugar wash ...

[Doogie]

OK, I run a 25L still with a Rad concentric pot/reflux still
I have 2 washes of 60L. (120L total) birdwatchers stripped - yielding 30L of low wines at 40%+

I have run this before in reflux mode, gaining fore/heads from about 95 to 92, hearts from 92 to 88, then tails the rest of the way thru. The hearts have a touch of sugar taste in them. Cuts are done in 500ml jars, but may not be full (heads I cut at 250ml, when I am in the middle of the hearts I cut 500mL, when I figure I have a bunch of hearts I start cutting again at 250mL or less until I figure I am into the tails).

Question - is it worth going into a triple distillation? I am thinking I can do a couple of things:
1) Pot still the low wines, making pulling the the fores/early heads, and keeping the mid/late heads, the hearts and early tails, then put it thru a regular reflux
2) Double reflux - run once, and try to compress the hearts further with a second reflux run, pulling a wee bit of heads/tails off the final run
3) Shut up and enjoy a bit of sugar taste and cut tighter in the end stages

Thoughts?

[Kravenhed]

In my opinion, and since I have experience in mostly corn based grain bills, I really put forth a tremendous effort to work for quality over quantity, if that is your angle and you are after the best product you can put out then a single pass would be where I would head.

But if your trying to just get quantity of neutral spirits the two or three runs and you got < 95% ABV EToH, that in my opinion needs to be flavored or aged to regain some sort of character. I am simply suggesting you go with your gut on this, that's what makes us better.

In all regards I hope this was helpful and I hope you get the kind of likker your looking for.

[Prairiepiss]

It's a sugar wash not a whiskey corn wash? So a single run with his still is probably not the route he should take. Most making neutral do at least two runs. Some make as many as 4. Even with bigger reflux stills.

Water is the best filter. So diluting with water and running another time will clean it up even further.

[Doogie]

Cool - all was helpful

Yes, it is a sugar wash (birdwatchers). I will go the "water filter" route (forgot about that) and reflux it some more. I usually start the spirit run at 40% ABV (since I usually run rums and corn types where you want the flavour to push thru). This time I will knock it down to 30% on the first run, and go from there

Thanks all!