Modular hybrid pot still come reflux still
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:17 pm
Hi all, new here so go easy on me...
I have been working on a 4 inch pot still that will run to a to a 500mm 2in shotgun. Standard keg boiler, 2 elements, one controlled. Nothing new there. Shotgun is done, as are the bend sections.
I had been thinking I would do a 2in CCVM head on a column extension as a modular section that I could use for neutrals and was about to just put the pot together and start looking into rum recipes but I had a thought tonight about a possible other way to do this.
So I have come up with the below and would like some feedback on whether I am heading in a suitable direction? I want to produce rum and gin, but will also play with light whiskeys for my Dad. I am thinking a Carter head after the first bend for gin, but that’s a latter addition.
My thought was I could build the column with a reverse easy flange or even just a ring soldered in near the base and when I want to run neutrals I can drop a perforated plate in and fill the column with packing and drop a reflux condensor in between the top of the packed column and the still head...
So after a trip to 5 Star yesterday I have come to seek the opinion of those with more knowledge than me!
Will a 500mm 4inch column packed produce a neutral I can use to make gin? Any other feedback welcome.
I have been working on a 4 inch pot still that will run to a to a 500mm 2in shotgun. Standard keg boiler, 2 elements, one controlled. Nothing new there. Shotgun is done, as are the bend sections.
I had been thinking I would do a 2in CCVM head on a column extension as a modular section that I could use for neutrals and was about to just put the pot together and start looking into rum recipes but I had a thought tonight about a possible other way to do this.
So I have come up with the below and would like some feedback on whether I am heading in a suitable direction? I want to produce rum and gin, but will also play with light whiskeys for my Dad. I am thinking a Carter head after the first bend for gin, but that’s a latter addition.
My thought was I could build the column with a reverse easy flange or even just a ring soldered in near the base and when I want to run neutrals I can drop a perforated plate in and fill the column with packing and drop a reflux condensor in between the top of the packed column and the still head...
So after a trip to 5 Star yesterday I have come to seek the opinion of those with more knowledge than me!
Will a 500mm 4inch column packed produce a neutral I can use to make gin? Any other feedback welcome.