by Rabbit » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:16 am
I did my first strip run last night and decided to split into 250ml portions in pint glasses, and I ran the the off-take rate kinda slow (just for practice). The middle product is clean and smells sweet - bit floral almost. It tested on the alcometer at 95% - product was still a bit warm so prob not totally accurate but still pretty pure.
Next run I'll try a little quicker as no need to be getting this purity in a strip run I'm sure.
I did a cleaning run with weak vinegar solution, rinsed column with bicarb solution, then did a just water run. After rinsing column after that run I noticed plenty of rust in the scrubbers so pulled them all out and replaced but that's another story! :angry-banghead: .... (I took pics of the dodgy scrubbers). Sure its been covered elsewhere but I would not trust the scrubbers in these shop bought stills! Def a low quality stainless steel if it rusts