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First time distilling in homemade pressure cooker pot still. Wanted to test it out with wine before I the sugar wash I have been fermenting for 2 weeks now. I was monitoring the tempature very carefully but noting started happening until it got over the 90c mark witch I was told the point to shut it down. Secondly I discarded the first 100ml or so then started collecting, first 400ml look great super clear great aroma. The second and third 400ml jars are cloudy as hell. Is this the tails? Doesn't look or feel oily or anything and burns super clear. I just want to have a better idea before I run my suger wash.

first disregard the temperature when running a pot still,go by how fast your collecting.
as for being cloudy it probably puked (boiled over) dont fill it so full about 1/2-3/4
you need head room,that is room for foam etc on top some washes more than others.

It's a pot still. The temps don't need to be watched that hard. Mater of fact they don't need to be watched at all. There are some good threads in the must read new distiller reading lounge to help you with that. Run it like a lot still should be. Crank the heat up till you start getting product. Turn it down till you get a broken stream.

Now cloudy means either you ran it to hard and smeared tails in early. Or it puked on you. Which both can mean you ran it to hard. Or fast. Or it could just mean you were into the tails. Which is quite possible? Don't know how Mich you started with? But 4 lt of 10% would be 400ml of 100% alcohol. So at 50% that would be 800ml so after tossing 100ml and collecting 400ml that would leave around 300ml but it would also be dropping off in ABV so it could have been another 4 to 500 ml.

You will also need to read up on cuts. Good thread in the yep you guessed it. New distiller reading lounged about making cuts.

This being the first run it should be a sacrificial alcohol cleaning run. And needs to be tossed out. There is a thread in the new distiller reading lounge about that too.

Sounds as if some of the info you have been fed is not the best info. Good thing you found HD. Everything you need to know is here. The best source of info on the net. To get someone started. You just need to take the time to take advantage of it. And read as much as you can. Starting in the new distiller reading lounge. Then the patent site and novices section.

Now many other things could be your problem. As you haven't described how your still is built. How big it actually is? Or how you are heating it. How fast you ran it? How much you put in the boiler. What ABV the boiler charge was.

Was posting while Dnderhead was.