Sugar wash to try

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Re: Sugar wash to try

Postby RC Al » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:23 pm

Alrghty

First port of call is to get one of these or similar
https://5stardistilling.com/product/pow ... 00w-10amp/

The temps in the instructions are an guide on when to power down from rapid heat up to production speed and then when most of the recoverable booze will be taken, there are many instances where you want to go either side of that, so its not really a hard and fast thing.

You need a controller to change the rate of take off that suits the size and abv of the wash, power needed will vary somewhat during the course of a spirit run, lots of variables but you generally would go slow for fores/heads, jump up a little for hearts, possibly back off a bit for early tails and then crank it to strip the rest to throw in the next spirit run.

A stripping run is done really fast at full power usually. You may not achieve that with that sized condenser, but it might be just fine too. The power controller will help ballance that out if it is an issue.

I fully recommend ignoring the thermometer and learning to run by feel, the skills/experience gained are more transferable if you change still types vs logging temperatures that are going to change with every different wash that you run.
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Re: Sugar wash to try

Postby Wellsy » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:44 pm

:text-+1:
On the power controller mate, without it you are pissing in the wind. It is a bit like trying to control the speed of a car by having the acceleration flat out and just turning the engine on and off. I can be done but the results are not desirable.
The power controller allows you to control the take off speed and hence the smearing as you go from one section of the run to the next
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Re: Sugar wash to try

Postby Teddysad » Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:11 pm

The Stig wrote:
Royalwulf wrote:
The Stig wrote:Show us a pic of the still :handgestures-thumbupleft:


https://copperheadstill.co.nz/product/c ... pot-still/

WOW. Would have been cheaper buying a T500 boiler and FSD 2” pot
Maybe not , depending on the shipping from NZ



He is here in NZ
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