?? - not following you, Waljaco. If you let the ice melt, then it remixes with the enriched ethanol and dilutes it all over again. The whole idea is to...
Couldn't you use the PET bottles and freeze them with the cap down. Just talking here as I never tried this. When the alcohol "seperates" from the liquid,...
Am I right in saying that the resulting liquid obtained from this process will contain methanol/fusels, if so how can they be removed ? Can they be filtered...
You are correct. Freezing is not precise like reflux distillation and there isn't any way to separate out the other alcohols. The best plan is to stick with...
 In my opinion, freeze distillation will result in all the alcohols being seperated from the wash. Just as doing a stripping run, you will end up with all...
I've used this freezing technique to make brandy using my homemade apple wine. It is very simple to do. I leave my wine in a primary fermentor on my porch...
Okay, I should have added to my last post that you don't have to chop the ice, it only freezes to a slush. Here is the temperture-alchol information I...
The whole idea is to remove as much alcohol as you can by letting it drip out. You repeat the freezing & thawing several times as water also is a product of...
Here is a description of how to do it in the home. PET bottles would be advisable as glass can shatter and note that sugar washes have no methanol. ...
Here are some notes from a now defunct site ("My freeze concentration method.") - Do not lay the bottles down or the mouth will be blocked. Beverages with high...
So you're saying there would be no fore shots with a sugar wash? ... From: waljaco <waljaco@...> Subject: [new_distillers] Re: home made alcohol To:...
... would be advisable as glass can shatter and note that sugar washes have no methanol. ... Actually, it's a persistent but incorrect myth that foreshots...
Yeah, If I'm not mistaken that's why you catch the fore shots and discard, because of the methanol that comes out first. So if there is no methanol in a sugar...
One more time. Actually, it's a persistent but incorrect myth that foreshots removal is strictly to remove methanol from the collected spirits. Most ...
I don't know about the "methanol is undetectable by taste in ethanol (it tastes like slightly sweetened ethanol)."Â Â I accently got a bit of "HEET" which is...
From The Distillation of Alcohol by J Stone & M Nixon - Compound & Boiling Point (deg. C) Acetone 56.5 Methanol 64.7 Ethyl acetate 77.1 Ethyl alcohol 78.4 ...
Heet is a yellow liquid (methanol is clear), it "prevents rust and corrosion" (methanol does neither) and according to the MSDS contains "proprietary...
Disagreement duly noted. ... clear, the HEEt for diesiel is colored and of a different grade. ... corrosion" (methanol does neither) and according to the MSDS...
Paul, That's what everything I've read says also. Although it may be a leap of faith I'm not willing to test, for most volatile liquids, taste is closely...
... WHITE OAK IS BEST. TRY LIGHTLY TOASTED FIRST THEN YOU CAN ADJUST TO A DARKER TOAST IF YOU WANT FOR TASTE. DO NOT USE ANY WOOD THAT HAS EVER BEEN FINISHED....
Hi I'm having a problem opening up "New Distiller's Recipe File" as have other subscribers. What am I doing wrong? I would relly like to access these files as...
... Yahoo! is constantly fiddling with things, and sometimes links get broken or lost. Try this... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Distillers/files/Recipes.html...
Harry, Thanks for getting the recipe file back in operation. It's great but after working with it, I found that it's significantly different from the file...
Hello everyone. Just received and put together my new Brewhaus reflux still and excited to get started, but it looks like I have a lot of reading to do before...
