How Low Do You Go--Stripping

[rawdawg1952]

What ABV do you guys run your strip to? Ran my first yesterday down to 28%. should I go lower on the next wash?

[S-Cackalacky]

I usually don't check ABV while doing a stripping run and just run until I see a change in the output stream, or until it's just very watery feeling and stinks. I do pretty much the same with spirit runs and don't check the ABV of each jar until I've aired it out and ready to do the cuts. The last jar from the last spirit run I did was 5% ABV and the jar before it was 28%, so the transitions seem to happen fairly quick when you're into tails.

[rad14701]

I don't go by %ABV or temperature but, rather, by taste, smell, and feel... Another indicator is when heat input and time invested is too great in comparison to the yield...

[ga flatwoods]

I like my strippers to go as low as they can go till I run outa dough .....
Ga Flatwoods

[SoMo]

I like my strippers to go as low as they can go till I run outa dough .....
Ga Flatwoods

Hell yeah, keep the stink away tho.

Starting abv is the parent site standard.

[rawdawg1952]

Hey Ga flatwoods. Have you ever seen the billboards on I-75 south of Cordele that advertise "Strippers-----Need we say more" There used to be one at that same area that said "We Dance Butt Naked" . Thanks Guys for the info. I'll run the piss out of the next wash

[ga flatwoods]

Yep. I have a few friends over that way. Close to the Muckalee Flint merge.
GA Flatwoods

[shadylane]

"How Low Do You Go--Stripping"
Depends on how valuable the wash was.
And what is going to be done with the low-wines.

[SoMo]

Jimbo a well respected member got in my butt one time over stopping at 40% and dumping the rest, turns out there's still up to a gallon of strong flavored stuff you can polish up in a future 1.5 run or as low wines depending on your tastes. 1.5 is adding a past strip or run to a new wash and running it at a moderate pace for a higher abv run, lots of hearts in there. Figure out what you like, that's the best part of our hobby it's all subjective.

[Truckinbutch]

Strip runs I used to run I cooked to 20% abv . Toward the tail end you could actually see fusels streaming down the carboy and writhing around like snakes . Spirit run was where I started trying to eliminate those rascals .

[bearriver]

As Shady Lane stated if I had an expensive fruit wash, then I would collect until I could no longer detected any alcohol present. Then save the feints somewhere so I could add more in the future, until I had another boiler charge full of fruit feints.

For my run of the mill ferment (<pun) I stop somewhere around 20%. This is based off the suggestion of others to use my good ole natural senses of touch, taste, and smell.

[alpine]

I stop around 20%. This gives me about a gallon of 40% low wines per 5 gallons of 8-9% wash, whether malt or molasses. If I had it on propane I'd likely go lower and try to match the Scotch distillery 3:1 reduction, but with my cycling hotplate it just takes too long. By the time the output is in the 20s it's painfully slow.

[oilguy]

I always run it down to 20%, I would like try go lower some time just to see when the oily stuff comes , so far at 20% still comes clear,