Steam and Reflux
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 11:16 am
Apologies for my ignorance on this, but I haven't seen it discussed much. My situation is:
1) I love the one-and-done part of my flute.
2) I don't love squeezing grains.
I'd love to be able to distill on the grain, but that means steam. And unless I'm mistaken, you can't reflux steam to load plates.
I've been trying to come up with a situation to handle this for a few days now, trying to make things as easy as possible. I've been looking for a big, stainless fermenter of around 40 gallons, like a steam kettle. I may have found one with some local scrap guys. I was thinking of maybe fermenting in this, pumping out the liquid into the boiler for the flute, then basically dropping on a lid onto the fermenter that turns it into a thumper.
I could conceivably then run the flute *into* the thumper, but that could defeat the purpose of pulling the fores/heads and stacking. It might not. I dunno.
Thoughts?
1) I love the one-and-done part of my flute.
2) I don't love squeezing grains.
I'd love to be able to distill on the grain, but that means steam. And unless I'm mistaken, you can't reflux steam to load plates.
I've been trying to come up with a situation to handle this for a few days now, trying to make things as easy as possible. I've been looking for a big, stainless fermenter of around 40 gallons, like a steam kettle. I may have found one with some local scrap guys. I was thinking of maybe fermenting in this, pumping out the liquid into the boiler for the flute, then basically dropping on a lid onto the fermenter that turns it into a thumper.
I could conceivably then run the flute *into* the thumper, but that could defeat the purpose of pulling the fores/heads and stacking. It might not. I dunno.
Thoughts?