Re: Sugar wash to try
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:23 pmAlrghty
First port of call is to get one of these or similar
https://5stardistilling.com/product/pow ... 00w-10amp/
The temps in the instructions are an guide on when to power down from rapid heat up to production speed and then when most of the recoverable booze will be taken, there are many instances where you want to go either side of that, so its not really a hard and fast thing.
You need a controller to change the rate of take off that suits the size and abv of the wash, power needed will vary somewhat during the course of a spirit run, lots of variables but you generally would go slow for fores/heads, jump up a little for hearts, possibly back off a bit for early tails and then crank it to strip the rest to throw in the next spirit run.
A stripping run is done really fast at full power usually. You may not achieve that with that sized condenser, but it might be just fine too. The power controller will help ballance that out if it is an issue.
I fully recommend ignoring the thermometer and learning to run by feel, the skills/experience gained are more transferable if you change still types vs logging temperatures that are going to change with every different wash that you run.
First port of call is to get one of these or similar
https://5stardistilling.com/product/pow ... 00w-10amp/
The temps in the instructions are an guide on when to power down from rapid heat up to production speed and then when most of the recoverable booze will be taken, there are many instances where you want to go either side of that, so its not really a hard and fast thing.
You need a controller to change the rate of take off that suits the size and abv of the wash, power needed will vary somewhat during the course of a spirit run, lots of variables but you generally would go slow for fores/heads, jump up a little for hearts, possibly back off a bit for early tails and then crank it to strip the rest to throw in the next spirit run.
A stripping run is done really fast at full power usually. You may not achieve that with that sized condenser, but it might be just fine too. The power controller will help ballance that out if it is an issue.
I fully recommend ignoring the thermometer and learning to run by feel, the skills/experience gained are more transferable if you change still types vs logging temperatures that are going to change with every different wash that you run.