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picked up my new filter system today was my fathers day present better late than never
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ive just threw a brew on tonite so she wont be ready for a good week now but will give it a good run when shes brewed and ready for filtering.

Waste of time and money!

Dnderhead wrote:Waste of time and money!

You have that right, but I tend to prefer the acronym W.O.M.B.A.T.=Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time.

We had a thread about this in Related Hardware. http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7890

Interesting acronym. In Australia a Wombat is a bloke who eats, roots and leaves. I'll let ya'll work it out.

Eats, roots, shoots, and leaves.

No roots.

It's "eats, shoots, and leaves". For example..:


A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

'Well, I'm a panda', he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'

But we're talkin' wombats and they are good rooters (as in digging up roots) but then I suppose all young blokes are good at that on a decent saturday night too.



Could be an aussie thing too.
Cheers.

Dnderhead wrote:Waste of time and money!

why give me a reason to make the statement ?
so why does still spirits make them then ?
i use to use the z-filter system but was pain and the lid never sealed propely then i was useing a brita water filter but was too small.

thats ok each to their own on their thoughts about this product well ive purchased it now so ill be useing it.

lawnman 2 wrote: so why does still spirits make them then ?

To take more of your money.
Propper cuts on a non Turbo wash makes a filter system a mute point.

So what are you trying to filter?

Wash?
Time, or cold settling in a fridge/freezer will work wonders for dropping out yeasts & other haze-causing proteins.

Product?
Don't let haze-causing substances get in there in the first place, unless you are aiming at a traditional Scotch Malt. Again, chill-filtering solves all protein-based hazes.

ALL filter screens 'blind' (clog up), rendering them useless in all but the largest of filters (compared to amount of fluid processed).

Wash settling and/or cold gravity filtering (product) are the cheapest and most effective filtration processes available to the hobbyist. Of course you can always play the Big Boys game and rig up a centrifuge (costs power). Maybe a washing-machine spin-dry cycle, using the appropriate screening material, e.g felt matting?

I guess you can gather by other's responses that on a hobby level, filtering is seen as a way for suppliers to part the punters from their wallets.



Slainte!
regards Harry

First off, I wouldn't put spirit through any filters that have plastics that come in contact with the liquid. That's a common subject around here.

I also agree that if you make proper cuts and sometimes do a secondary run, there should be no reason to even filter ... depending on what you're after. i.e. sometimes a real clean vodka may take a second run.

And finally, if you really want to filter it, you can always buy the filtering activated charcoal and use it without the plastics involved.

Most people don't like to drink plasticizers, but to each his own.

~r~