by FatManDancing » Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:51 am
Hi Wellsy
Mate, that is not a silly question, in fact it is the smartest question to ask
The TLDR version is it came with the T500 kit so why not
My thinking at the start was simply to make a neutral spirit to flavour. I think it may be true for many people and it certainly was for me that when they first start researching distilling they come across home brew stores and vids on Youtube where the simple kits they sell are all you need and frankly you can not do any better. Besides I was mostly going to be mixing cocktails so a close enough approximation should be fine
It does not take much research to learn there may be a better way. Research I wish I had done at the beginning. I bought the pot still first to do stripping runs on my neutral and then do spirit runs through the T500 and in the process hopefully learn enough through practical experience to further experiment with the pot to do flavoured spirit runs, something I am really looking forward to
I also plan to slowly upgrade the pot to run plates but clamping that kind of set up on a T500 boiler just isn't gonna happen. In the meantime I will use the equipment I have and continue to learn
Just on the cat thing..... I am the one who put it out there and did so for the purpose of being mocked and teased a bit. It happens at work all the time and it is generally meant to be good natured banter. I have two and absolutely adore them but they can be total ba*tards sometimes. The reason I am typing this at 2.45 is because they were tearing through the house an 1am and woke me up and I could not get back to sleep, something they had no problem doing