BennyHiggo wrote:3. PC is a cold finger rather than a Liebig! I didn't notice this until I first set it up. This means I have to throw at least 5L/min at it to keep the distillate cool. (I have no fix for this) Running off the tap as well because I am in a rental with no rainwater or space for an IBC.
hoochlover wrote:I also don't think copper is the best thing to use for a still myself, I know plenty of other people love copper and that some say it reduces sulfides. But try doing a water run through it and tasting the end product. Tastes like copper. Sure if you filter this through carbon I don't doubt it will taste better but that bothers me. I didn't realize it was so able to pass it's smell and taste through to the water like that.
I think the key thing for neutrals is don't use copper and try to limit the possible sources of sulfide in the wash. The best homemade Russian vodka makers that I've seen don't use copper at all, not even mesh, they all say it puts a taste into the vodka they don't like and just going from my experience with the water I know that to be 100% true. Maybe if you do whiskeys or rums or something it masks the copper flavour. Maybe if you filter the end product it doesn't matter. Anyhow my newbie 2 cents worth, not worth much.
tipsy wrote:I disagree,
I made an old nixon stone still out of all copper. My neutral never had a copper taste, it hardly tasted of anything at all.
Sorry for getting OT
hoochlover wrote: I also don't think copper is the best thing to use for a still myself, I know plenty of other people love copper and that some say it reduces sulfides. But try doing a water run through it and tasting the end product. Tastes like copper. Sure if you filter this through carbon I don't doubt it will taste better but that bothers me. I didn't realize it was so able to pass it's smell and taste through to the water like that..
BennyHiggo wrote:I'm just shoving loads of SS scrubbers up its arse for now. Need to get some copper in there really but it's a cost issue at the moment more than anything. I have one copper scrubber in there as a token effort!lol.
Not familiar with SPP
BennyHiggo wrote:Hmm that's very interesting.
It kind of looks like he is just throwing way too much power at it and causing it to puke up the column but I assume I am wrong and something else is happening??
The SPP does look like a great packing option but not sure how you stop it coming out of the column? Do you chuck a scrubber in tight underneath it?
Think you should start a new thread about SPP Hooch. Put the videos up and see what everyone else reckons :think:
BennyHiggo wrote:but not sure how you stop it coming out of the column?
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