stretch69 wrote:I ran a 5th gen bkor today and forgot to open the tap on the parrot and empty the foreshots at the start, i didn't notice til right near the end. Will this matter too much?Apart from that i had a really good run, went nice and slow
Roger wrote:Thanks for the reply woodduck. That's what I thought. What a bugger. Spent the weekend doing 4 runs so feel I have wasted my time and washes. I had 100 litres WBAB (did two runs), 50 litre UJ gen 2 and lastly a run of CFW gen 3 wash with the gen 1 and 2 pot still stripped added. I have actually put the end result on oak in 5 litre demijohns, so not sure how polished this will be. Sounds like I have just done stripping runs.
So, not sure where to go from here. The washes had OG of 1.6 to 1.7 and were generally 0.90 to 1.0, so they had good alcohol content. I think the content was fine. Getting 7 to 8 litres per run before shutting down when I hit 30 to 40% ABV.
I started with RC and PC valves open. Once the bubblers started going I turned the water on (couldn't see why I should waste water while warming up that first hour). Then I turned one heater element off to run at 2,400w with parrot bottom open. I could see all 4 plates bubbling nicely with a drip per second coming out of the parrot. Then I turned down the water flow until the fores dripping out of the parrot increased. Waited 30 minutes to load the plates and turned the RC gate valve down until toothpick size stream came out. This had the gate valve very close to being fully off.
I then closed the bottom of the parrot and product started at low 90's ABV. But every 500ml it would drop a few % ABV.
All I can think of is if I closed the RC valve too much and restricted the water flow. But if I opened it up any more the product flow out of the parrot would reduce to drops.
I have some TPW ready to go plus barrel of feints in the 5 plate copper packed section but don't want to do this until I sort out what I am doing wrong.
So any comments or suggestions or anything else from anyone much appreciated!!!!!
Cheers for your time if you have read this far.
Roger wrote: My runs were at night, so didn't want to bother Allan at the time.
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