One of the many hats I wear is doing disaster planning for my company. We've been talking about water storage - adding a few drops of bleach to a gallon of...
Hi Richard, you'll need much higher %ages and preferably acidic. As an analogy, think how easy beer turns to vinegar, and how much more difficult it is to have...
... it is ... sterilant ... reasons ... between ... 16%+ abv is the sterility cutoff point vintners advocate in wines. This prevents most (not all) microbes....
... snip . Alcohol as a sterilant swab is usually ca 50% (higher is actually less effective, for reasons I won't go into). big snip ... In our food business...
Hi TB, By swabs I meant for cleaning surfaces etc, so your point about glyceline/ol is important: you will end up with dermatitis otherwise, if you're not...
Q & A please.. Since, as I understand, diamonds are not porous how will the refinement of vodka be improved? Diamond dust would not seem to work either. I...
Like the title says, its just a marketing ploy. Since diamonds are not porous, it has the same effect as filtering your vodka throught broken glass. Nothing...
LOL, I have one nearly ready: filtered and purified in a totally natural way, producing a smoothe amber liquid at just the right temperature to be fully...
Hi Tyler, I could say I filter my poteen over my gold leprechaun droppings and I now pee champagne and bottle it. But what sort of idiot or as they say here,...
Differences Between Scotch WhiskyProduction and Brewing by Graham G. Stewart International Centre for Brewing and Distilling, Heriot-Watt University The...
ha-ha,.. I reckon its a tax Wright off, "we need 4 billion $$ worth of 'filters' too make this vodka" the filters last one year before I personally dispose of...
Good article on the resistance curve of thermistors http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20020125S0100 should be especially handy for using the different value of ...
When I'm diluting my spirits ready for bottling I always try and achieve 43 > 45 % abv. I usually manage it but it's always a bit hit and miss. Does any one...
Attention: this works for liquids at 20 dg Celcius. ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Distillers/files/homedistiller_calcs_1.html tintin_milou92 ... Découvrez...
... I've asked several people and all agreed that in quantities we are dealing with inaccuracies in measuring volumes will make more difference than...
Actually the differences are a result of calculating a weight vs a volume. Specific Gravity/density/proof are based on the weight relationship of water. You ...
Here is a new recipe for apple flavored spirits. My wife and I were making apple sauce a few weeks ago. We peeled the apples using a mechanical apple peeler....
Hi Link, You wrote:- "What the heck is 'compaction'? Well I've heard of it, I just got back from visiting my 86 year old mother-in-law, in hospital. And the...
When water and alcohol, both distilled , are combined the molecules fit together in a way that results in less volume that the sum of the original two volumes....
Sorry.... Do you mean 'constipation'? This might be a cultural 'verbism' issue. I'm only trying to get clarification here. I'm trying to learn something I...
I did a couple of 1/10 scale test runs this weekend. One with cornmeal and another with cracked corn. I got good extraction out of the cornmeal (1059 OG) but...
... snip... ... concentrate. ... snip... Hi, Michael, hi folks, I will look in the supermarket but don't recall seeing apple juice concentrate; perhaps it is...
Hi Link, You are quite correct the nurse was referring to constipation and you're right, it must be "a cultural 'verbism' issue." But pay no mind to me I'm...
