I got bored

[Corn Cracker]

While doing a spirit run this morning I gave in and built a reflux column, its 2 inch and only about 40 inches tall right now, I'm out of 2 inch ferruls, i need about 3 or 4 more, ive got more 2 inch for more hight. I think I'm going with lava rock for packing, to get started at least. Yall have got me

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wanting to try my hand at gin

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[MooseMan]

Hahaha, this hobby has bitten you hard now Cracker!
I can identify!

OEG is a great start point for a gin journey.

[Corn Cracker]

Man, I think the bite got infected at some point
I've had all the parts for a while now, the coiled condenser i made about 3 years ago, just to see if I could.
I still have the 3 inch pipe to mess with when I get the ferlux thing figured out, I'll upgrade it

[Corn Cracker]

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She's up and running, i put 6 rolls of 4inch(streched out to 5 inches) x 16 foot long copper mesh rolls in a 42 inch column and produced 190pr (187 corrected) neutral, i think i need to slow the run down or add more mesh, i had a steady, thin stream the whole run. This run was 3 gallons of "high wines" it consisted of a tight cut sugar wash strip and some previous runs I didnt care for thinking it would strip the flavors, not quite there is a hint of the pecan maceration and oak, it has that buttery sweet smell of the UJ that I didnt mean to add to the carboy but, it really came through. This will be reran with another sugar wash stripping run to strip that out more and a slower spirit run

[BigSwede]

Nice one CC! I've never seen a configuration like that, a great use of space, and it keeps the balance on the column within reason, rather than a long leibig trying tp pull a column over.

Some times, flavors come through, and it's not always a bad thing, depends on what you want.

[Corn Cracker]

Nice one CC! I've never seen a configuration like that, a great use of space, and it keeps the balance on the column within reason, rather than a long leibig trying tp pull a column over.

Some times, flavors come through, and it's not always a bad thing, depends on what you want.

Thanks Big, i was all over the road on its test drive but, this run was a lot smoother