I've got some bluish-grey particles in my low-wines. I didn't notice them until storing the low wines on my 40f balcony for a couple of weeks. Is this something reacting with the copper? The actual spirit isn't blue, just the particles. Should I filter them out before the spirit run?
The wash was spent grain from beer making plus some sugar (like Jimbo's gumballhead). The OG wasn't more that 1.060. I used bread yeast and about a tsp of DAP to ferment at about 80f. There was some lactic twang but no pellicle. I fermented on the grain and separated before stripping. I didn't have any puking during stripping.
Just copper sulfates. Filter out and run.(maybe dilute little more than normal)
I get that when I run rice, it has to do with the ph of wash going in. You also may have had a puke or was on the verge of a puke while stripping.
Yak
HDNB wrote: The trick here is to learn what leads to a stalled mash....and quit doing that.
Cotron,at the risk of sounding an ass...this HAS been answered countless times. Never by me or for me but a quick check of the HD google search came up with a solution super quick.sorry bro this is NOT how I ever answer a post but this one really is that easy to find the answer.
Remember not to blow yourself up,you only get to forget once!
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After a year and a half, this finally happened to me. I threw some baking soda in a sugar head spent gain low wines. Those came out in the spirit run fine. But the next stripping run a week later had just a few specs come through of blue. I don't rinse my head or broiler..ever...but I knew from general reading that it was the baking soda and copper.
I read it randomly, and when it happened, I knew.
Its perfectly safe, if it were me I wouldn't even bother filtering. Just run it, and rinse the boiler after.
And while its running, read up on something random that you don't need to immediately know. That way you know something more than you need to. Do this every time you get on here, and you'll always be one lesson ahead of yourself.
"Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond."
On pretty much any other issue I'd trust what I found using the search function. But when it comes to this I wanted to have someone look at the picture and tell me I wasn't crazy for not throwing it out. I'm not asking what diameter my liebig should be, I'm asking about something that I'm worried could be dangerous, so I thought I'd make my own post.
