Banga81 wrote:Welcome Mate,
Newbie here myself. Im just about to run my first wash through the T500. I bought from a HBS before reading this forum. I guess after all the reading on this forum, the thing that annoyed me the most about the T500 is its not recommended to do stripping runs on it as it has plastic parts on it that may melt with the temps required to do a stripping run. Instead i will be running it through the still twice. Alot more time consuming.
Ravvin wrote:I have also found that most mixes need to be left in the bottle for at least 2 weeks for the flavours to even out. I give them a shake each day and open them to check how the smell is changing.
Have your friends start collecting bottles too. Here's another frustration. Most of these flavourings make either a 750 or 1125ml batch. Most spirit bottles in Australia now seem to be 700ml. I was lucky and had 6 of the 1.5L Stones bottles, so I marked a line on the side for 1125ml and use those. I also found a friend who's family is in a wine club and go through loads of it. Standard wine bottles are 750ml so she collects all their clear ones for me. Buy a box of sticky labels and mark them with what you made and when you bottled it. Once in a clear bottle, the Jack Daniels mix looks just like the Southern Comfort mix. They smell very similar for the first week or so. :-D
Greg.
Arismac wrote:Banga81 wrote:Welcome Mate,
Newbie here myself. Im just about to run my first wash through the T500. I bought from a HBS before reading this forum. I guess after all the reading on this forum, the thing that annoyed me the most about the T500 is its not recommended to do stripping runs on it as it has plastic parts on it that may melt with the temps required to do a stripping run. Instead i will be running it through the still twice. Alot more time consuming.
True it is a bit more time consuming but the double stilling produces a very good quality spirit. I work to this time line:
Day Zero. Start two 23 litre fermentors on TPW using Pure Distilling "Premium Spirit Yeast"
Day Seven. (subject to ambient temperature). Run still at 55C. Still first fermentor produces 3.8 litres rough spirit at 92%AbV
Day Eight. Repeat day seven with second fermentor.
Day Nine. Clean/change copper in T500 column. Return both "rough" spirit batches back to still and fill to "maximum" line on T500. AbV reduces to 40%. Take 100mls "heads. Collect 7.5 litres of good quality neutral.
RC Al wrote:a vague hint of a rumour about 5 star doing a boka style still soon (hopefully it will convert to a pot still -nudge, nudge, hint, hint Andrew)
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