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Ok so i just started my cook 9 gallons of low wines all 100% and 3 gallons heads and tails!!! I set my still at 85 mills per minute...within an hour its done dropped to like 50 mills??? Can someone please explain this!!

Duckhunter18 wrote:Ok so i just started my cook 9 gallons of low wines all 100% and 3 gallons heads and tails!!! I set my still at 85 mills per minute...within an hour its done dropped to like 50 mills??? Can someone please explain this!!

You can't just set your heat and pull of liquor at the same rate for the whole run. I'm assuming your running a pot still? Proper takeoff speed is a small pencil lead sized stream. You'll need to increase the heat as the run progresses to keep this pace. As the alcohol is removed from the boiler the boiling point decreases, so naturally you'll need more heat to keep the same takeoff rate.

Antler24 wrote:

Duckhunter18 wrote:Ok so i just started my cook 9 gallons of low wines all 100% and 3 gallons heads and tails!!! I set my still at 85 mills per minute...within an hour its done dropped to like 50 mills??? Can someone please explain this!!

You can't just set your heat and pull of liquor at the same rate for the whole run. I'm assuming your running a pot still? Proper takeoff speed is a small pencil lead sized stream. You'll need to increase the heat as the run progresses to keep this pace. As the alcohol is removed from the boiler the boiling point decreases increases, so naturally you'll need more heat to keep the same takeoff rate.

There...I corrected that for you Antler.
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still_stirrin wrote:

Antler24 wrote:

Duckhunter18 wrote:Ok so i just started my cook 9 gallons of low wines all 100% and 3 gallons heads and tails!!! I set my still at 85 mills per minute...within an hour its done dropped to like 50 mills??? Can someone please explain this!!

You can't just set your heat and pull of liquor at the same rate for the whole run. I'm assuming your running a pot still? Proper takeoff speed is a small pencil lead sized stream. You'll need to increase the heat as the run progresses to keep this pace. As the alcohol is removed from the boiler the boiling point decreases increases, so naturally you'll need more heat to keep the same takeoff rate.

There...I corrected that for you Antler.
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Thanks, it was a long day with no whiskey please forgive me lol

Why when i set my mills at 80 it drops down to like 40 within an hour or two....then maybe starts dripping then picks back up

Duck - your post is a bit critic. Can u flesh out the post and give details, u might ever so slightly improve the chance of a reply. There are loads of good helpful people here waiting to help. J

Same question...different day. Answered here: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=70953&p=7526351#p7526352

We’ll see if it gets through this time.
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Agreed. Merged.