by Irritable » Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:57 pm
I think your getting terminology a little confused as well.
If you have a 5 litre wash that is 20% abv, then theory suggest you could get 1 litre of pure 100% alc. which as we know isn't possible, so you might get 1.4 litres at maybe 80% during a normal run.
A stripping run, runs the still hot and fast, so you don't waste time, a strip run will reduce that 5 litres to - maybe 2 litres and the abv will be from the best your still can make right down to maybe 5% but what you have now collected that 2 litres will contain 95% of the available alcohol and that run will take you half the time or less than a "normal run".
If you the do a spirit run nice and slow, of the remaining 2 litres plus 1 litre if water, throw away the foreshots and what is coming out will be the highest abv your still has ever see and a flavour you didnt know existed. As its coming off on the spirit run, collect all of the run in 250ml glasses. If you want to throw them altogether at the end - go for it.
My bet is, you will smell and taste the double stilled hearts and the heads and tails(which there won't be a huge amount) and decide to maybe keep 500mlsof liquid gold and put the rest aside for your next spirit run.
Si.