There are some washes that are notorious "foamers" that can give the same boil over as a hotbreak. Molasses washes for rum are a great (or bad) example....
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RLB
last2blast
Jan 12, 2013 1:14 am
Sorry, I disagree. You need to be able to reach at least 210 F if you intend to strip as much alcohol as possible from your wash. Robert ...
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jeffkimblelv
Jan 12, 2013 1:15 am
Pyrex is hard to find these days. You don't need it though. The advantage is that it can go from hot to cold without exploding/cracking Also, your wash isn't...
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tgfoitwoods
Jan 12, 2013 1:20 am
I'll admit to being confused by the caution over boiling water (or aqueous solutions) in Pyrex (borosilicate) glass. A a chemistry major, I spend hours boiling...
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dhaynes42@...
donhaynes42
Jan 12, 2013 6:48 pm
Guys: I have just finished a mash of black beards rum and I am getting a hydram reading of 60 to get it to 90 do I add water or more brown suger. Don// ... ...
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RLB
last2blast
Jan 13, 2013 4:47 am
Fredrick: That is easy! Shake the bottle vigorously several times a day. 1) leave cap loose to allow CO2 to escape. 2) remove cap to allow fresh air in 3)...
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mikie1856
Jan 13, 2013 4:48 am
I was wondering when making your run with a thump-er do you have to still pitch the head, Because I don't see anything about pitching the head,I was going to...
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covepointrd
Jan 13, 2013 4:48 am
I believe methanol is a product of wood fermentation. If you don't have wood chips in your fermentation vessel, you should have no methanol. Also, someone...
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tgfoitwoods
Jan 13, 2013 6:36 am
Don, If I'm reading this correctly, you read a specific gravity of 1.060 and you want to get a specific gravity of 1.090. You need to add more sugar. Zymurgy...
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tgfoitwoods
Jan 13, 2013 6:51 am
Methanol is one of the compounds liberated from wood in destructive distillation, where the wood is heated until it starts to break down and the vapors are...
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Fredrick Lee
AreoSpike
Jan 13, 2013 7:13 am
"Fresh air" means bacteria filled air. You will have to make sure the co2 is all evacuated as well. Also, the headspace calculations for shaking six-gallon...
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dhaynes42@...
donhaynes42
Jan 13, 2013 1:19 pm
Bob: what i did was 12 lbs of brown suger and one qt of honey heated approx 6 gal water to 120 deg and mixed in the suger and honey. I let it cool to about 80...
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RLB
last2blast
Jan 13, 2013 10:36 pm
Fredrick Good idea. Don't forget that I usually start my experiments with what I have on hand. If my experiments are somewhat successful and not more...
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tgfoitwoods
Jan 14, 2013 2:50 am
Doing a little bit of guessing at the final volume and amount of sugar in the honey, I'm going to say that would be 13 pounds of sugar in 7 gallons of...
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last2blast
Jan 14, 2013 6:35 pm
My new stainless steel pot and copper cap still should arrive today. What is the best way to clean it before using it for the first time?...
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Rick Wrightson
fwrightson3
Jan 14, 2013 6:39 pm
Get this guy out of here...he's polluting the group... ... Slainté Rick Wrightson e: rick@... w: http://www.CapeCodWhisky.com f:...
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tgfoitwoods
Jan 14, 2013 6:50 pm
You're right, of course, Rick, but it's being sent from an old email account of one of the old-time, very valued, members of this list. Because Jim would never...
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mav
mavnkaf
Jan 14, 2013 11:55 pm
Best to use the message search function on this site, search for message 40743 and you will find your answer. Or You could search for "vinegar and bicarb still...
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Bill Rogers
tucciim
Jan 15, 2013 8:05 pm
do a water run through it for an hour, then a 50/50 vinegar/water for an hour. rinse with water. distill....
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Blackhat-Whitedog
blkhatwhtdog
Jan 15, 2013 8:06 pm
usually what happens, someone's email gets hacked, they raid the addresses in all the emails, the addressbook etc. and they send millions of emails combining...
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Harry
gnikomson2000
Jan 15, 2013 8:17 pm
... Done. Slainte! regards Harry...
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regal de silva
silvax321
Jan 16, 2013 1:25 am
Dear All I have filled a 1/2" three meter long copper tube with salt powder to bend and make a coil. Â For nearly two months the salt filled copper tube is...
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crsound
Jan 16, 2013 4:58 pm
Your good, go on and bend it then shake/wash out the salt in the bathtub of hot water....
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crsound
Jan 16, 2013 5:24 pm
Your good, use the tube and then shake the salt out in a bath tube of hot water....
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GGB
girlguidebis...
Jan 16, 2013 5:57 pm
I think it would mainly depend on whether water or water vapour had been able to enter the pipe and moisten the salt. Even then I doubt anything serious would...
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last2blast
Jan 17, 2013 11:44 pm
I did my first water run with a new pot still. Something of great interest was that there was 3 drops at 160 F, and it started to drip stead after 173 F. My...
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damionpseudonym
Jan 17, 2013 11:46 pm
Sorry if these are getting repetitive, but I figure, better to ask the experts before I go mangling things than afterwards, plus, you guys are being INCREDIBLY...
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last2blast
Jan 17, 2013 11:47 pm
I had a 1/2 gal of recovered ice water from my freeze distillation process, so I run it through my new pot still just to see what the results would be. It was...
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Blackhat-Whitedog
blkhatwhtdog
Jan 17, 2013 11:48 pm
Momma loved those copper pots and pans, actually used them (not just hung them on hooks to be pretty. Of course that meant I had to clean the dang...
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Fredrick Lee
AreoSpike
Jan 18, 2013 12:15 am
From sugar water there probably won't be a good heart. Distillation is the extraction half of the process, fermentation is where delicious half is made. Start...
