Downslope Distilling (Centennial, Colorado) offers a two day course on Distilling - which covers all aspects of distilling/mashing/permitting. ...
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Tom
tomhawk412
Mar 9, 2013 6:50 pm
Chris, On February 23, 2013, I attended an intensive one-day seminar at Virtuoso Distillieries, LLC in Mishawaka, IN (suburb of Southbend). The course was put...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 7:39 pm
Flash distillation Robert ________________________________ From: joe giffen <joegiffen@...> To: "Distillers@yahoogroups.com"...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 7:47 pm
Check out flash distillation. Its not perfect but for striping it should be super fast. You can set it up as a reflex too. Problem is that most units are...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 7:51 pm
It should work well with you bio-diesel plans as well. Last night it took 6.5 hrs to strip 2.5 gal of wash. You can even turn it into a reflex. Robert ...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 7:52 pm
Flash Distillation Robert ________________________________ From: jsducote <forlorntexan@...> To: Distillers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 7:53 pm
Flash Distillation ________________________________ From: jsducote <forlorntexan@...> To: Distillers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 10:37...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 8:05 pm
Flash Distillation is shit stirring as you call it. I took several day to find the information. Robert ________________________________ From: tgfoitwoods...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 8:10 pm
They are normally huge, so why are there no small ones? They are super fast, and should only add a few hundred to the cost of a still. Does you book cover...
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last2blast
Mar 9, 2013 9:45 pm
If I had known about Flash Distillation months ago, I would have my still built for me rather than wasting these many months on current stone age home...
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Eddie Hoskin
radicaled42
Mar 9, 2013 10:40 pm
The biggest issue with flash distillation is simply dealing with the pressures involved. The concept is extremely similar to many power plant steam cycles;...
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Denis Grace
max_vino
Mar 10, 2013 1:32 am
Hi Rob, Years ago I had a company that manufactured optical fibers. We were involved in many different types of distillation one of them that I experimented...
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chris jude
gordoncity
Mar 10, 2013 1:34 am
Yeah, we did this at the biodiesel plant I worked for to recover methanol. Pumped the biodiesel through a spray nozzle at pressure, into a tank where we...
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girlguidebis...
Mar 10, 2013 1:37 am
A guy I know here, who has been stilling for 10 years and is an engineer, built a continuous fermenter and distiller as one unit. It produced so much 65%...
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last2blast
Mar 10, 2013 4:36 am
Actually, there are many forms of flash distillation and ways of doing flash distillation (pot still like or reflex)Â First and foremost is that it can be...
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Jan Ooms
jkooms
Mar 10, 2013 5:20 am
Hi Robert, As a small hobby distiller I certainly am interested in your flash distillation. It certainly would not make me change my distilling habits at the...
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tgfoitwoods
Mar 10, 2013 8:02 am
Ok, I had to read up on flash distillation to be certain that I understood it, but mostly what I found was flash evaporation of a mixture of a volatile liquid...
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Brendan Keith
bkeith1886
Mar 10, 2013 2:35 pm
It's almost as if...after hundreds of years of inspiration, experimentation and refinement, the process that we use today is the most suited to our goals. Go...
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last2blast
Mar 10, 2013 3:01 pm
Zbob: Ah, I see that you made the same mistakes as me with my first few searches involving flash distillation. After my first few searches, I determined that...
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last2blast
Mar 10, 2013 3:13 pm
Is it really the best way? Robert ________________________________ From: Brendan Keith <bkeith@...> To: Distillers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March...
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Fredrick Lee
AreoSpike
Mar 10, 2013 3:29 pm
... Robert, that's where you are incorrect, alcohol is miscible in water and what you are trying to do is mechanically induce two discrete phase changes. ...
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last2blast
Mar 10, 2013 4:57 pm
My biggest problem is that one group says it can't be done and a second group that has an opposite opinion, so who is correct? Are they both correct in their...
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Fredrick Lee
AreoSpike
Mar 10, 2013 5:25 pm
In our lab when we want to speed up extraction times, we use a rotovap. This is a still with a rotating boiler (increasing the vapor surface area) and a vacuum...
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girlguidebis...
Mar 10, 2013 8:57 pm
Here's another use for flash evaporation :Â removal of dissolved and suspended water from oils, particularly waste vege oil for use as fuel. In these...
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tgfoitwoods
Mar 10, 2013 9:50 pm
Paul, I can agree your example, and because one of the liquids has no appreciable vapor pressure, only the volatile water would evaporate. That also holds true...
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Mike
mikejwoodnz
Mar 10, 2013 11:50 pm
... Exactly ZBob - what these guys are postulating would be better dealt with and explained in the Beginners Forum - their confusion comes from a lack of...
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Fredrick Lee
AreoSpike
Mar 11, 2013 1:00 am
Although I agree with all the science, and I believe that it's a long shot and will lead you down frustration lane. I still suggest that you build your...
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Eugenio D'Annibale
oakvilledood
Mar 11, 2013 1:04 am
Ok being a newbie to the world of distillation and new to this group, i have amassed a massive headache listening to the Robert guy waxing poetic about his...
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Dave
bbmdave
Mar 11, 2013 1:20 am
Thank you, well said. ________________________________ From: Eugenio D'Annibale <edanniba@...> To: "Distillers@yahoogroups.com"...
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Tom Brohamer
bbqnfool
Mar 11, 2013 4:46 am
I agree! I’m tired of hitting the delete key when new mail from this group arrives. From: Distillers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Distillers@yahoogroups.com] On...
