Questions about brewhaus PSII

[astronomical]

8G kettle-12%wash-2" BH pot head

When running a 1500w plate on my rig I can only strip about 2L an hour. Are my stripping runs more like spirit runs? It seems like even with my hot plate maxed (which it always is and its not cycling) I'll always be doing a run that could be a spirit run if I did proper cuts. The flavors seem to support this as well.

From what I've gleaned it seems like 2L may even be a bit slow and I may be sacrificing flavor. If I understand correctly, running too slow compresses the good flavors with the bad flavors too densely and thus makes it hard to make a proper blend.


Thoughts?

Thanks
Astro

[Bayou-Ruler]

8G kettle-12%wash-2" BH pot head

When running a 1500w plate on my rig I can only strip about 2L an hour. Are my stripping runs more like spirit runs? It seems like even with my hot plate maxed (which it always is and its not cycling) I'll always be doing a run that could be a spirit run if I did proper cuts. The flavors seem to support this as well.

From what I've gleaned it seems like 2L may even be a bit slow and I may be sacrificing flavor. If I understand correctly, running too slow compresses the good flavors with the bad flavors too densely and thus makes it hard to make a proper blend.


Thoughts?

Thanks
Astro

You may not have enough heat. The whole point of a strippin run is to run hard and fast, meaning heatin her so hard that if you put much more to her she would spew steam out the condenser. I Have that same head and I use propane I can safely get a little over a half gallon an hour on a strip.

[Prairiepiss]

Are you running it with the reflux condenser? Or without?

[astronomical]

Are you running it with the reflux condenser? Or without?

without. just the head portion and zero packing.

From what Bayou said it seems like I'm right on par with what this condenser can handle (2L/.5G). That still leaves me wondering if the length of this condenser is so short that it restricts me from actually running at speeds faster than a spirit run. I'd imagine that I'll get more vapor when running low wines, but, from wat Bayou said, I'll still be restricted to condensing 2L an hour which seems a tad slow.

I know I could add an additional condenser to it and I will, but, I still want to know. Could I just perform proper cuts on this 2L an hour output and have the same product I'd get from a spirit run?

If I was going to just do a single run spirit run with no stripping than wouldn't I just run this at the max speed of 2L an hour?
Thats the heart of my inquiry

[Bayou-Ruler]

Are you running it with the reflux condenser? Or without?

without. just the head portion and zero packing.

From what Bayou said it seems like I'm right on par with what this condenser can handle (2L/.5G). That still leaves me wondering if the length of this condenser is so short that it restricts me from actually running at speeds faster than a spirit run. I'd imagine that I'll get more vapor when running low wines, but, from wat Bayou said, I'll still be restricted to condensing 2L an hour which seems a tad slow.

I know I could add an additional condenser to it and I will, but, I still want to know. Could I just perform proper cuts on this 2L an hour output and have the same product I'd get from a spirit run?

If I was going to just do a single run spirit run with no stripping than wouldn't I just run this at the max speed of 2L an hour?
Thats the heart of my inquiry

You know you could replace the 12 inch liebig with a 24inch one and you could run her harder. I replaced the 12" standard Liebig on my reflux column with a 24" one.

No you would want to run her slow for a spirit run. But on second thought, i recon it would depend how much congeners you want to carry over.............

[KY1792]

I've ran this exact rig for several years and never questioned the throughput as it is what it is and only went by the end result and never paid any attention to exact time or volume.

At the time I was only making sugar head and never considered a single pot run nor even tried. For a stripping run I would place the boiler with pot head only on my stove top and heated at 2400 watts until about 125F then turned down the heat to about 1800 watts which was the max power that smallish condenser could knock down.

On the spirit run I would only run it at about 1000 watts, also in pot mode but with a packed column of structured copper. You have to experiment with your drip rate to get the best product taste for your recipe, too fast is bad as is too slow, I normally ran a broken stream with sugar wash and a bit faster with UJssm.

When I ran in reflux mode for a neutral I only needed 600 watts with an insulated boiler and column but ran it much slower as in drips and took 12 hours for a 7 gallon run of low wines.

I then bought a 2" copper pot head from HBS that connected to my Brewhaus boiler and it knocked down everything I could throw at it in strip mode, still dropped the power down to about 1000 watts for the spirit run as I went by taste and not volume. I gave up on refluxing because of the time involved when I found that Birdwatchers and Rad's all bran was equally as tasty when double distilled in a simple pot rig.

Do not quote me but me thinks a 6 gallon strip took 3 hours and a 6 gallon 40% spirit took 5 hours for a 70% finished product when double pot distilled. My free time was way too valuable to babysit for an extra 8 hours to reflux that extra ABV percentage that made no difference to me.