First, please bear with me and my ignorance. All I know about distilling anything is what little I can remember from high school chemistry some 45+ years ago.
How practical it is to recover the gain alcohol in a tincture solution by distilling a tincture solution made by soaking a veggie (making homemade medicine from herbs) in Ever Clear until it has extracted the essential oils? Currently we just evaporate off the alcohol into the open atmosphere. This is costly, wasteful, slow and potential dangerous because of the strong alcohol fumes. Is it practical?
If it is practical, what type of still is the simplest (both to build and operate), most efficient, cost effective (both to build and to operate) and relatively the quickest to run? I have access to a couple of different vacuum sources and was considering using a vacuum still with the vacuum source between the evaporator and the condenser because of (a) the lower temperatures involved and the use of a vacuum rather than pressure so ther is virtually no danger of an explosion.
Also, where i am starting with grain alcohol, how much do I have to worry about heads, middle, tails and so on?
Thank you for your advise and patience.
Don Jones
Extracting grain alcohol from tincture
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