So the other day I went out and bought a nice bag of peated malt as I always wanted to have a crack at a nice single malt heavy on the peat. Up until this point I have run only AG corn, malted wheat and barley mixes.
Anyway disaster has struck in what seems to me a rather unusual way. A short time into the stripping run I start to get contamination in my collection jar, murky particles like dusty lint from a dryer. I swapped collection jars and eventually it cleared.
The next day after the run I opened my still and the whole internal area above the waterline is caked with this stuff! Looks even more like lint now.
Additional information:
Still size 5lt copper alembic
Charge size 3lt
Malt brand Bairds medium peated
Fermentation size 10lt
I treated this run from mash to still the same as all my many other corn based ones which all went perfect, my wash was clear and had been sitting in the fridge for a week or so.
I'm at a loss to explain where all this "lint" came from. I'm doing another run now and it seems to be happening again, and I really watched my wash as I was adding to to the still and it was very clear.
Any ideas? :think: