I thought I would post on here again as it has been a while and I feel like a newbie again. A few years back I purchased a 4 inch FSD neutraliser from MacsStill when I was living in WA. Work load meant that I wasn't able to devote as much time to this as I would have liked to this equipment. Fast forward to 2019 I have moved states, I am now in Melbourne, and I have re-set up my brewing space and fingers crossed I have some more spare time.
I have a TPW down at the moment as I plan on playing around with some gin and espresso vodka ideas I have floating around in my head. My last gin experiment had a very strong cinnamon flavour which wasn't to my liking, although a bit more research I have a few new ideas to work through this (one of which is discussed below).
One issue I had previously was an inability to run my still in full reflux. I was running a submersible pump from a tank to supply cooling water to the RC and PC. This only ended up providing a total of 7 l/m to both coolers. Again I am going to use a tank to supply cooling water, something about using mains water for cooling doesn't feel right. After fixing a few plumbing issues I am able to sustain about 10 l/min per cooler. I haven't finish testing this out yet, such as restricting flow to the product cooler to push more to the reflux cooler. However, I am super excited to have found (from this site) a commercial power controller from KegLand if I still have this problem once I get this set up running. I would have loved to have one of these previously.
I guess that is enough for now. I expect to be a little more involved in this forum from now. :wave: