General expected quantities

by **newbiboozer** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:30 pm

I have read enough to know that there are no hard and fast rules to say how much of heads hearts and tail you will collect. I'm just after maybe an example of what total you could expect to collect from a 25 litre wash on single run through a reflux still and after cuts how much of these would end up as heads hearts and tails. once again I know this is not something that is always the same but want to know for say an average run what I can expect to see quantity wise.

by **Sam.** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:27 pm

I shoot for keeping a third as hearts for nuetrel from a 40% low wines charge.

Approx a third each of heads and tails

by **BackyardBrewer** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:40 pm

If you got a 25L pw wash to 10% then there's only a possible total of 2.5L yes? So that's everything including fores, heads, hearts and tails. Less 150-200mls of fores that's 2.3L assuming you can extract every drop (which is unlikely to have a wash after a run with zero alcohol left)

So work for around 1.75 - 2L tops. If you were happy to keep all 2L of 95% neutral I think you'd be doing better than most off a 10% abv 25L wash. I rarely keep a full 2L out of a refluxed TPW. But I tend to be ruthless with heads and tails. Keep less, run more often.