Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

scythe wrote:Then you have to mess around with resizing it down, and limited to 5 per post.

Only Five! I knew I wasn't posting to my full potential! :doh:

Tried the whole upload straight to the forum thing but just to hard with the resizing , limitations etc etc .

I just started another photobucket acc with a bogus email address , no problem (perhaps :-B )

Probably try the same thing with youtube .

Hi

Ive been very exitedly reading my alch metre as saying 96%

Do I assume that its actually 95.57 % given this from the glossary ?


AZEOTROPE: a mixture of two or more liquids in such a way that its components cannot be altered by distillation at a given pressure. At atmospheric pressure, ethanol and water form an azeotrope at 95.57%(by weight), higher percentages of ethanol can be obtained through vacuum distillation, adding a material separation agent or through molecular sieving.

Cheers

Assuming you have also temperature-corrected the reading, yes :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Zak Griffin wrote:Assuming you have also temperature-corrected the reading, yes

Temp corrected eh , sigh , more research :-)

Cheers Zak

Your alcometer will be calibrated to 20°c, probably. If your spirit is hotter or colder your alcometer will be inaccurate.

Yep, unless you paid a shitload for your alcometer and have a certified calibration certificate with it then it probably isn't accurate to anywhere near 0.1% :teasing-tease:

Yeh nah , came with the settup 2nd hand so probably not top shelf . And there is the whole meniscus curve to allow for too , but I guess if its showing somewhere over 95 I'm happy to settle for that especially as the best I could get pre extension was about 83%.
Looking at 3 lt of odor less tasteless neutral waiting for staves , pretty good feeling when its from something you built yourself .
Cheers

Sounds like your pulling azeo bud :handgestures-thumbupleft:

prawnz wrote:

Zak Griffin wrote:Assuming you have also temperature-corrected the reading, yes

Temp corrected eh , sigh , more research :-)

Cheers Zak

There is a chart for that in the noob section calculators depends what temp your spirit is coming off at as the guys have said

http://www.mediafire.com/?w0fd90zej2mrfbs