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Greetings people - I was wondering if anyone here has ever seen a table (or reasonable fax) that shows you how much H2O you would have to add to (for example) 500 ml of 40% to make some other amount of 20%. I should know how to do this with equations, but its been awhile since school days and maybe I'm just lazy these days. Anyway, anyone know of any formulas or tables to help cutting different amounts to different strengths, etc ?

The homesite has a calculator program built, you just plug in the variables. I use it all the time when watering down my drinks.

http://homedistiller.org/

It's under Diluting the Distalate>Dilution Calculators

~r~

Parent site - distilling, diluting the distillate, dilution calculators.


To make 1.125L of 40% alcohol using spirit at 75%, you will need to use 1.125 x (40/75) = 0.6L of the 75% spirit, then top it up to 1.125L using water.


Edit - wow, ya gotta be quick around here!

yes, perfect. You gotta like this place. thanks guys.

terryt wrote:Greetings people - I was wondering if anyone here has ever seen a table (or reasonable fax) that shows you how much H2O you would have to add to (for example) 500 ml of 40% to make 750 ml of 20%. I should know how to do this with equations, but its been awhile since school days and maybe I'm just lazy these days. Anyway, anyone know of any formulas or tables to help cutting different amounts to different strengths, etc ?

Simple problem.

500ml of 40% convert to 750ml of 20%

step 1, drink 125 ml of the 40% (to get yourself warmed up)

step 2, mix equal amount of water with what you have left in 40%

NOTE step one should be done in one big gulp

H.