Polishing with carbon - ZERO WATER

[RockinRockies]

I distilled a ton of feints I made and received, that were all already refluxed on 5 plate columns. Everything but the kitchen sink in them.

Held 94% on my column and collected, well... Lots. In fact I may have shut it down too early but easily kept 1/3 available alcohol by my calculations. I was surprised, pleasantly. It is a drop that needed refining, but not really that much, so I figured I'd pick up the zero water filter to test filtering for cheap. The results shocked me.

This has only been airing 3 days or so and just one run filtered polished the funk that bled through the entire run. Not nasty, but the similar edgy tails funk that isn't quite astringent, but also not perfectly pleasant. I notice this in my home distilled flavor that cleaner white spirits lack. It's likely my continued silliness of getting to greedy on the back end.

Well, I can't believe how incredible a difference filtering makes! 3 to 4 filtrations and it's such a subtle nose and near flavorless, soft profile on the taste. So ridiculously smooth dare I say it competes with great vodkas. Almost too smooth. The nose, because it's a feintkenshine, is in the arena of gin and rye, with a decent anise profile, but I know there was no gin in the low wines. So it's not vodka, because of legal definitions and the nose, but the taste definitely is. Indistinguishable.

Anyway, I wanted to share my excitement because I'm very sensitive to the headsy lower alcohols and the grungy tails, so much so that I'm having difficulty forcing myself to go wider for my bulk aging. I think this, combined with sodium carbonate for low wines can pull every last drop off of what some may consider a waste product.

I'm very, very impressed. I'll be interested to see if things change in 6 weeks. But, as this has been something that comprises many opinions, I thought I'd share my most recent endeavor.

Additionally, I'm very excited to do this with only all grain wheat vodka that I'll be making this year