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Floaties

Postby Doubleuj » Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:43 pm

I have had been building up some stripped wbab for a few months for a eventual spirit run and just found this floating in my Demi. Looks like clouds floating. Has maybe a slight blue tinge. There are smaller particles floating around too.
It was the second half of the strip run so maybe tails molecules collecting together?
Anyone ever seen this and should I be worried about it?
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Re: Floaties

Postby googe » Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:51 pm

yep tails crap, probably come calcium and sulfieds. I get it with rum strips etc.
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Re: Floaties

Postby Zak Griffin » Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:56 pm

I got a few floaties like that in some deep rum tails after a while. Pretty sure there's nothing too nasty.

When they start swimming you can be concerned hahaha
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Re: Floaties

Postby Doubleuj » Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:58 pm

Yeah, finally found an old thread about "white sediment in bwko."
They're called jelly fish according to Mac and others.
As its a strip run should I should be able clean it up with good cuts and a slow run.

Hey, I don't care if they want to have a swim, it's if they bloody piss in it, or worse, drink it
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Re: Floaties

Postby rumsponge » Fri Jul 29, 2016 4:42 pm

slightly blueish ?
possibly some form of copper salt ?
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Re: Floaties

Postby warramungas » Fri Jul 29, 2016 5:10 pm

A new life form?
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Re: Floaties

Postby rumdidlydum » Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:51 pm

That might be how smurfs evolved :teasing-tease: :laughing-rolling:

I had the same stuff in most of my strips when I was running the pot :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Floaties

Postby Doubleuj » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:01 pm

rumdidlydum wrote:That might be how smurfs evolved :teasing-tease: :

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Floaties

Postby dogbreath vodka » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:28 pm

Sea monkeys!
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Re: Floaties

Postby RuddyCrazy » Fri Jul 29, 2016 8:00 pm

I'd more worried about that hippy caterpillar on the bottom sucking in all the good stuff :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Floaties

Postby bluc » Fri Jul 29, 2016 8:25 pm

Looks like copper sulphate/sulphide never sure which is which. How long since you cleaned the still vinegar and sacrificial run or citric bath? The fact its blue leads me to think it has something to do with copper..
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Re: Floaties

Postby Sam. » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:44 pm

If you leave it sit it will more than likely settle out and you can decant it off if it bothers you, otherwise just run it back through the still, it isn't going to make any difference :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Floaties

Postby Doubleuj » Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:54 pm

Nah a bit of smurf juice or sea monkey purée isn't going to worry me, it'll all go in for a spirit run.
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Re: Floaties

Postby coffe addict » Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:09 pm

So I sometimes get this if the still has been sitting neglected for ages... Over a week! Usually clears pretty quickly and I've been discarding if its on a spirit run as cuprous oxide is toxic.
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Re: Floaties

Postby warramungas » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:41 am

coffe addict wrote:So I sometimes get this if the still has been sitting neglected for ages... Over a week! Usually clears pretty quickly and I've been discarding if its on a spirit run as cuprous oxide is toxic.

Copper oxide is brown. Like the tarnish on copper.
Suphides and sulphates are various shades of blue. I always get which way to spell those mixed up.
I would definitely not drink it but its safe to keep to rerun. The salts wont carry.
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Re: Floaties

Postby coffe addict » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:59 am

Yes my bad I obviously got them confused. Copper sulphates and sulphide are also toxic but as warramungas points out they won't carry over and any from the downhill path will all be within the foreshots and these are disposed of anyway.
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Re: Floaties

Postby beardrinkshomebrew » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:46 am

it's the Blue Meanies, soon there will be a Yellow Submarine come along :laughing-rolling:
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