Professor Green wrote:For neutral with a strip/spirit run strategy, you would configure your rig as a pot still and run the wash hard and fast as your stripping run. All you’re doing here is concentrating the alcohol. You can cut fores here too. This gives you what is called “low wines”. You would run further washes way until you have enough low wines to warrant a spirit run. This you would do using all of your plated sections with a packed section on top of those and your RC on top of the lot. You can certainly keep the cuts that don’t make the grade for an all feints run. Some people will evench chuck them into their next run rather than save them for an all feints one.
Note that if you have 5 plates and a packed section, you should be able make good neutral in a single pass. I can only run 4 plates due to a height restriction so I strip my washes first. If I could run my neutraliser with all of the plates I’d do single runs.
As for gin, yes you would dilute your neutral hearts to a safe strength (anything less than 40%). You can run it over plates with the botanical basket in the vapour path or can also run it the same way without plates. I would still do cuts and blend them based on flavour although I have not made a vapour infused gin. Others with more experience here will chime in I’m use.
RC Al wrote:For pot still mode, you just need to get the vapor to the pc, no plates, no packing, keep the defleg if you want to play with small amounts of reflux while running, you could also put a tee above the defleg and use it to swap vapor infusion botanicals mid run
RC Al wrote:For pot still mode, you just need to get the vapor to the pc, no plates, no packing, keep the defleg if you want to play with small amounts of reflux while running, you could also put a tee above the defleg and use it to swap vapor infusion botanicals mid run
Bryan1 wrote:Now that your still is finished time to look at the next project and make your bubbler modular. The carter head is a great design and by making a 4" 90 degree bend with a bought or scored 4" bend. Make some easy flanges on some short 4" pipe then solder them into the bend.
Next make a tee section where the normal site glass has an internal 4-2 reducer where the 2" is branched 90 degrees so it goes out the base of the tee section. This is where a primus glass can be used as a sight glass and also serves as bubble plate.
Then a new 4" blockhead that can use your PC and make a basket to go in the blockhead.
So to do an infusion run use 2 plate sections and put the RC ontop, then put the 4" bend with the rest of the carter head on that. Then the RC can be used to change the botanicals as stated before.
Now is the plan I'm using for my carter head project but as I don't like gin :puke-huge: the project has gone on the back burner.
Cheers Bryan
P3T3rPan wrote:Or you can do this
scythe wrote:Hey chocko, its all in there for you.
Scale is 1:10.
4" pipe.
Lookes like a 2.5" or 3" bubble cap.
1/2" drain line.
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