Temperature Cuts and Vol of Foreshots

[6 Row Joe]

I threw the thermometer away long ago. I use smell and taste only and always a strip and then a spirit run. I monitor proof with a refeactometer and pay close attention when it gets around 100. It's pretty easy to tell when the heads end and the hearts start.

[dkslopoke]

I think you are misunderstanding thermal equilibrium for chemical composition, but if you say so. Who am I to say that while methanol compound can be changed or mixed it cannot be diluted. Kinda like oil and water theory here when hitting its boiling point, sure it is mixed with the other compounds but at 30 degrees over its boiling point in the vapor chamber there it absolutely no chance it can be in the finished product from the 200 degree wash.

[dkslopoke]

Any contamination is going to be from it cooling in the coil and not being evacuated, that is why it is important to keep your coil disconnected until you achieve the correct temperature.

[bilgriss]

Ahh, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E ... ger_effect

[Saltbush Bill]

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[MooseMan]

Yea, flame test is pointless, there won't be methanol in your spirit if you pitch your foreshore up to 180 degrees, to anyone that says temperature is half as way to do cuts denies the validity of physics.

I'd suggest lots more reading, some of it quite heavy, if you want to fully understand the methanol/ethanol relationship and get into debates over it.

What you've said above regarding methanol, foreshots and temperature is categorically not true.

[NormandieStill]

Ok, so now you think the compounds of each can be diluted? Hmmm. Wait are we trolling?

No trolling I think, but I do think that you might need to forget what you think you remember from high school chemistry. Distillation of a mix of compounds is more complicated than distillation of pure compounds (which would be pointless anyway because they're already pure). Search the forum, do some reading, go read a chemistry textbook.

What are you distilling by the way? Because depending on the source materials the methanol content in your wash may be pretty damn close to zero anyway. Fores are not (just) methanol, and methanol will come over all the way through the run. All of this information is available to verify both here and on the internet if you choose to do the reading. Or you can decide to believe the oft-repeated myths from a few YouTubers. Just don't expect anyone here to take you too seriously!