Heating your boiler

[Blove88]

How fast should you heat up 10 gal of low wines at 60 proof

[sadie33]

you should not put anything over 40% in your boiler

[sadie33]

oh, and if it's low wines, that means your doing your spirit run, you want to go slow...It usually takes me about an hour to heat on a spirit run. 5 gal pot still on my stove.

[Stonecutter]

you should not put anything over 40% in your boiler

True Sadie33 but 30% is just fine

Heat it up as fast as you can without puking. It’s low wines so your chances of puking are reduced. Once you start producing you’ll want to back off and collect low and slow. Another trick is to back heat off when your still is hot to the touch most the way up the riser. Once you get a feel for it you should be able to learn when to start cranking down the heat input so you don’t smear too much on the front end.

[sadie33]

you should not put anything over 40% in your boiler

True Sadie33 but 30% is just fine

Heat it up as fast as you can without puking. It’s low wines so your chances of puking are reduced. Once you start producing you’ll want to back off and collect low and slow. Another trick is to back heat off when your still is hot to the touch most the way up the riser. Once you get a feel for it you should be able to learn when to start cranking down the heat input so you don’t smear too much on the front end.

LOL, yes, it was 60 proof, not 60%!!

[Sporacle]

How fast should you heat up 10 gal of low wines at 60 proof

Go by sound and touch, the boiler sound will settle just prior to heat getting to your riser, as Stoney said feel the riser and reduce you power to the desired setting for your run.
On my pot I shut the power down totally for ten minutes when I feel the bottom of my riser getting hot (that's hot not warm)

[greggn]

On my pot I shut the power down totally for ten minutes when I feel the bottom of my riser getting hot (that's hot not warm)

Why ?

[Blove88]

you should not put anything over 40% in your boiler
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[Blove88]

you should not put anything over 40% in your boiler

True Sadie33 but 30% is just fine

Heat it up as fast as you can without puking. It’s low wines so your chances of puking are reduced. Once you start producing you’ll want to back off and collect low and slow. Another trick is to back heat off when your still is hot to the touch most the way up the riser. Once you get a feel for it you should be able to learn when to start cranking down the heat input so you don’t smear too much on the front end.

I've been going full blast and backing off at 100 deg and slowly bringing up to temp

[Sporacle]

On my pot I shut the power down totally for ten minutes when I feel the bottom of my riser getting hot (that's hot not warm)

Why ?

Just a habit, do it with my stripping runs and it helps prevent pukes.
Carried over to my spirit runs and the 10 minutes give me a chance to do anything outside the shed for the next 8 hours
Plus I'm heating at about double what I run at

[Stonecutter]

I've been going full blast and backing off at 100 deg and slowly bringing up to temp

Yeah, it’s really up to you when to back that heat off. Running by temperature isn’t recommended but I don’t see anything wrong with using a thermometer to give you a good indication of when your still is going to start producing, it’s what I do along with feeling the rig, I can tell when my rig is getting close to producing and that’s when I back off heat input till I get my desired collection speed. I don’t pay any attention to the thermometer after that.
Slow drip until my heads are gone then adjust to collect hearts a touch faster, then slow drip as tails come on.

Sounds like you’re on the right track Blove88

[jonnys_spirit]

Low wines heats quicker than beer/wash. Once up to temp - mybe 35-40 min w/5k5W on 15g - I dial way way back and pull fores low and slow for an hour.

Cheers!
-j

[greggn]

On my pot I shut the power down totally for ten minutes when I feel the bottom of my riser getting hot (that's hot not warm)

Why ?

Just a habit, do it with my stripping runs and it helps prevent pukes.

Are you running dirty ?

I can understand cutting back the power but I'm not sold on shutting off.

[Blove88]

I've been going full blast and backing off at 100 deg and slowly bringing up to temp

Yeah, it’s really up to you when to back that heat off. Running by temperature isn’t recommended but I don’t see anything wrong with using a thermometer to give you a good indication of when your still is going to start producing, it’s what I do along with feeling the rig, I can tell when my rig is getting close to producing and that’s when I back off heat input till I get my desired collection speed. I don’t pay any attention to the thermometer after that.
Slow drip until my heads are gone then adjust to collect hearts a touch faster, then slow drip as tails come on.

Sounds like you’re on the right track Blove88

Thank you

[Blove88]

Low wines heats quicker than beer/wash. Once up to temp - mybe 35-40 min w/5k5W on 15g - I dial way way back and pull fores low and slow for an hour.

Cheers!
-j

Thank you sir

[Sporacle]

On my pot I shut the power down totally for ten minutes when I feel the bottom of my riser getting hot (that's hot not warm)

Why ?

Just a habit, do it with my stripping runs and it helps prevent pukes.

Are you running dirty ?

I can understand cutting back the power but I'm not sold on shutting off.

Everything is cleared, Mollases is always a bit pukey.
Just what I do

[HDNB]

i always heat up the night before an leave it hot until the next morning. my thoughts are some esterfication happens, the heat hastens the process...plus it makes the spirit run day go faster by shortening heat up time.
dunno if it helps other than a shorter heat time on run day, but it does make some fine whisky.