Hey guys,
Haven't run my still for about a year and now having an issue.
I ran some wine through my 46L 4" unpacked bubble
I have done a few runs like this before with the same wine and not had an issue.
Basically I had my collection jars set from the other runs after tasting rather than collecting into stubbies for all the runs
This gave me plenty of wiggle room for the hearts and tails.
330ml fores + heads
2000ml hearts
2000ml hearts
900ml hearts/ tails
900ml hearts/ tails
2000ml tails
Run the fores and heads out slow
Collect at about 3L/hr @88% for hearts and let it slowly drop speed in the 900ml jars and turn off the rc to collect tails
Basically doing the same thing for this run and I feel I can taste tails in the first 2000ml jar.
Definately taste it in the second 2000ml jar. Collected 500ml in the next jar and it was terrible then pumped out the tails into a 2000ml with no rc and it taste way better than the others but still has a hint of tails.
Why am I getting tails so early?
Why does the non RC portion of the still run taste way better?
Based on the 13.5% abv of the wine I've collected 4.77L of pure alcohol out of the nearly 6L (80%collection) and most taste like tails. Where I normally get about 5.5L (90%) of the available alcohol with a 50/50 split of hearts and tails