new member saying hello

[vicenn92]

hello from southern Ontario.
my background / experience with distillation started using glassware for chemistry. familiar with short path and vacuum distillations, using a rotovap and got really really into steam distillation of essential oils ands isolating the various components using fractioning column. occasionally we would need azeo , or even *pure* alcohols ( sidenote: thank goodness for zeolytes.. i feel bad for people in times before those were a widely known and accessible thing). covid brough shortages and sky high prices , and that led to getting a turbo 500 and copious amounts of sugar. i think fermentation is great, because i can give single cell organisms enough food to live, and in exchange they devote their lives to doing complex chemistry work for me.

fast forward to now, and i hardly ever touch glassware, but ive fallen in love with craft distilling. most of what ive learned has been here, reading over the last few years. I try and focus on one type of liquor at a time, until im satisfied. i've for the most part left the t500 behind , and built a pot still, then a slant plant lm, then found a (barely big enough) ball valve to add a vm takeoff below that. I've played around with cooling and liquid and vapor for reflux management, and have a fairly good grasp on what's going on with each one

finally decided to join since ive reached a point were i have have some questions that i haven't been able to find and answer for in existing posts, at least not explicitly. that being said i dont think the idea i have underlying said questions can be that original of thought, so was hoping to get some help from more people more experienced than me.

cheers