Hey I just done a rum spirit run and it is very odd. I ran it till I ran out of bottles, like 10 bottles past where tails usually sets in and has been that way pretty close every run. But this time I cant smell tails at all, I can kinda taste it alittle in the last bottles but nothing distinct. I know its not aired but usually there is a distinct change in smell and taste even fresh.
I also picked up a bottle prob 4+lts into the run which is usually well into my hearts and it smells fine but seems to have a bite of the heads. Could be the odd bottle out (or coz its fresh off the still) as I didnt try any others just picked it to see whats gone on.
Any one came across this? I prob had a extra 2lts of low wines in the boiler but other then that it was all normal. I did get some mollasses from a different place as it was a sunday and I had to get a batch down. It smelt, tasted better then the normal stuff and it was alot thicker in constancy. Could this be why? I cant see it changing the run to that extent as last spirit had 60lts of wash from that batch and this one only 30lts and it was fine :shock:
I dunno maybe tomorrow it will be different but I have never came across a rum run with no distinct tails smell. I cant see there being more then 4lts of heads in a 25lt charge? I ran it to 60% when I stopped collecting in bottles so it well should of been in tails.