Fishboy wrote:Hey Hawkeye, I managed to increase the stripping rate pretty dramatically by just making a copper cap to the vapour pipe.
All I did was to flatten out a bit of 3/4" pipe that I split lengthways and annealed.
I just bent it up so that it sits supported by the edge of the vapour pipe and creates an angled cover that prevents condensed fluid falling straight back down the vapour pipe without having to sit in the collection area.
I reckon it improved output speed by a good 30%.
With the lieberg on it still kept output under 25 deg even at the improved rate.
xcvator wrote:Do I control the abv by water or t/o speed ( I suspect the later ) ?
tipsy wrote:xcvator wrote:Do I control the abv by water or t/o speed ( I suspect the later ) ?
Take off speed, I used to run my LM as fast as possible without the temperature rising.
Adam007 wrote:Does it come from Mac with copper mesh packing installed?
WTDist wrote:tipsy wrote:xcvator wrote:Do I control the abv by water or t/o speed ( I suspect the later ) ?
Take off speed, I used to run my LM as fast as possible without the temperature rising.
is this the same of ABV? run as fast as you can as long as it stays at 95.6% wondering how to tell how fast i can push my 2". it can get azeo on a single run (1.5m packing) so im thinking maybe i could go faster on low wines? is this the idea?
xcvator wrote:Well I'm not sure atm just where I fucked up :angry-banghead: but I obviously did, copious amounts of 78 % abv :scared-eek: wtf
Did the vinegar run, chucked in 10 litres of tpw for sacrificial run and chucked all that out, emptied the boiler and washed it out. Filled the boiler with 40 litres of tpw and lost the next 1.5 hours of my life ( insulate the boiler next time dumbo ) had take of valve closed, when temp finally stated to rise I turned the water on and left it for 10 minutes at 78c then opened the t/o valve, ran off 600 ml of foreshots, closed the t/o valve for 10 minutes for refluxing then ran off 2x 500 ml jars, then got cheeky and ran into a 2 litre flagon then back to 500ml jars, gradually reducing the amount in each jar until the flow slowed to almost nothing but a few drops at jar 13 then shut down.
So today I did the smell test :o 1st jar :puke-huge: 2nd jar = .5 :puke-huge:, flagon = :smile: jars 4,5,6,7,8,9 :-D jars 10 and 11 = .5 :puke-huge: , 12 and 13 :puke-huge:
So 1,2 10,11,12 & 13 went into feints jar
Now the questions :oops:
Do I control the abv by water or t/o speed ( I suspect the later ) ?
I made up several different drinks with essences ( yeah I'm on training wheels so go easy on me) when testing these for safety reasons ;-) I found a very slight taste of acetone at the finish but after leaving for a few hours and more safety testing, that seems to have disappeared , is this normal ?
Over all I'm pretty happy with the results :o the essence whisky with the addition of a bit of glycerol is as good or better than "Vat 69" or "Black Douglas" but a long way from my ultimate target of "Glenmorangie"and the "Scotch Heather" that got me interested in home distilling in the 1st place is pretty bloody good :handgestures-thumbupleft:
so there you go, my 1st day distilling and tasting my own booze 8-}
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