How do uou make your activated charcoal ,need clarification

[brewmaster2014]

Hey everyone, im posting here ,since I think it's part of ,or could be part of flavor modification. I ss on the internet,people doing it soo many fifteenth ways! Some use lemon juice, some calcium chloride,se sodium hydroxide, so I decided to reach out to the experts- you,to see what method did you use and how effective was it?

[Expat]

Better question is why are you using charcoal at all

It's a lot easier to make a clean spirit than to try and extract the garbage after distillation. Clean ferment I.e. not overloading the yeast, and good cuts/airing are all that's required.

[brewmaster2014]

Better question is why are you using charcoal at all

It's a lot easier to make a clean spirit than to try and extract the garbage after distillation. Clean ferment I.e. not overloading the yeast, and good cuts/airing are all that's required.

Yes definitely, im not intending to use to make drinkable stuff,I only wanted to use it to clean up bit of heads to use as cleaner so they don't smell too strong around the house,and it has soany other uses as well.cheers.

[Yummyrum]

Its not that expensive . Just buy a bag from a home brew shop . You can reuse it by heating it in an oven to burn out the impurities .

[Demy]

I do not use coal (I agree with Expat) but I believe that coal is able to better filter the queues and not the heads, so it may not work for what you want to do, maybe the good guys use it could correct me if I'm wrong

[StillerBoy]

im not intending to use to make drinkable stuff,I only wanted to use it to clean up bit of heads to use as cleaner so they don't smell too strong around the house,

Best route to is to re-distilled the heads.. dilute the head down to 25% and run them through a reflux cycle again.. making he necessary cuts required.. much faster than the charcoal route..

Making proper charcoal is lots of work involved.. not discounting the right wood required but also the the mess it makes..

Mars

[contrahead]

I ss on the internet,people doing it soo many fifteenth ways!

“I ss on the internet”

What does “ss” mean? Your whole statement is fairly incoherent but people seem to be responding to the title of your thread.

Those people did not explain how to make activated charcoal. The advice though that you do not need charcoal if you make clean spirit - is accurate; as is the statement that activated charcaol is not that expensive. Your unlikely to be able to make as good an activated charcoal as you can readily buy. (You'd need excessive temperatures or rarified chemicals to make the stuff properly).

Charcoal and “activated charcoal” are two very different things. I make my own charcoal. Henry Ford did too; he noticed a bunch of oak chips and chunks going to waste from his Model T production, so he had someone collect the scraps and created a new charcoal company.

Activated charcoal on the other hand is treated in a fashion to cause increased microscopic cracking in the charcoal. The treatment drives off compounds and residues that were originally in the wood, but what is left behind is a skeletal framework of cracks, voids and micro-pores that under a microscope would look like a black sponge or piece of lava with lots of air-pockets.

These pores and cracks act to trap the larger molecules floating around in that soup -called new make spirit. No mater how good the still, no one distills a perfectly pure spirit on the first run. If the riser is dirty or if running too fast in a pot still, the spirit can come out cloudy - full of fatty lipids, bad tasting conigers, ethyl acetate and other junk. Yes, activated charcoal can trap the larger of these undesirable molecules – allowing the cleaner ethanol to be poured off.

I make my own charcoal, which is easy to do; and not with the Lincoln County Process either. But not with the intention of using it as a filter. Mainly I'm interested in aging and coloring my spirit, but I am confident that while my charcoal imparts flavors; it also traps some of the triglycerides and other junk that I do not want in my final bottle.

Follow the links (3rd comment down) to learn more about activated charcoal.
https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtop ... =2&t=12697