by Jastiller » Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:19 pm
Hi all, My name is Jason and I live on the Gold Coast. I bought my first still a couple of weeks ago with the soul purpose of cutting costs long term but the more I look into it the more I think that this will be a great long term hobby for me. There is so much more to it than I first thought. So for I've done a couple of sugar washes with another on the go now as well as a TPW which I'm eagerly awaiting the results of. I threw the first 150ml and stopped short at the end of run so I figured I should have half a chance at a decent batch.I ran the first batch through carbon filter 4 times and second batch through new filter 8 times. My first runs weren't the most pleasant tasting as I experience a slight metho after taste and smell. Is this worse in hotter climates? Or is it just a turbo yeast trait? My ferment temps were getting up to 37-38 for the fist couple of days. I was using SS classic 8 yeast. I have been reading a bit on this forum over the last few nights (and much wiser because of it). I will be doing 300ml cuts to see for myself the differences through the run on the next batches but I'm hoping to fix the taste of the first runs. Is there an easy way to remove 'metho' smell/taste or should I just run it through again with my next sugar wash?
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