expansion chambers?
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:04 pm
Hi there. I read somewhere a while back that brandy stills often have expansion chambers in the column to improve the flavour a bit. any ideas on what sort of minimal setup would be needed to make a noticeable difference?
right now my still has a column that goes up about 10 inches, and then turns 90 degrees for about a foot and a half before going into my "super-gattling-shotgun-of-doom" condenser. I have a whole whack of copper sitting around as well as about 6 feet of 2 inch copper pipe. what kind of volume would I need to introduce to get a decent effect? could I just cut a 3 inch length of pipe and mount it halfway up the column? another idea I had was to hammer out some copper sheeting using a discer blade (flying saucer shaped farm implement) as a mould. if I took two pieces of this and soldered them together I could get something that looked like a flying saucer.... does the shape matter? do I want something like a sphere, or more like I football? I think I have seen all sorts of photos, but very little information on what is actually going on with this...
any ideas or thoughts would be stimulating!!!
skoop
right now my still has a column that goes up about 10 inches, and then turns 90 degrees for about a foot and a half before going into my "super-gattling-shotgun-of-doom" condenser. I have a whole whack of copper sitting around as well as about 6 feet of 2 inch copper pipe. what kind of volume would I need to introduce to get a decent effect? could I just cut a 3 inch length of pipe and mount it halfway up the column? another idea I had was to hammer out some copper sheeting using a discer blade (flying saucer shaped farm implement) as a mould. if I took two pieces of this and soldered them together I could get something that looked like a flying saucer.... does the shape matter? do I want something like a sphere, or more like I football? I think I have seen all sorts of photos, but very little information on what is actually going on with this...
any ideas or thoughts would be stimulating!!!
skoop