Usable alcohol left after spirit run?

[Puk]

Hi all,
I did my first spirit run yesterday in my pot still on my 50l keg boiler, and i took it down to just above 10% (chasing tails pretty deep for running the feints through a reflux still.)

My question is:
What is left in the still is around (or just above) 10% abv. (about 10l of it)

I have about 5-6 l of feints from this run, and the last few i did on my air still before i sold it. (around 70%abv)
do i have to do another TPW to add the feints to, for a run through my mates T500, or can i just use what i have left in the bolier, and add the feints to it, rather than doing another wash.

I mean 10% abv is 10%abv, right?

Or is what is left in the boiler going to be too offensive and not give me anything good?

Puk.

[The Stig]

I prefer to recycle the feints of each run with the next boiler charge.
Some wait till they have enough feints to do an all dents run.
Each to their own

[howard]

Hi all,
I did my first spirit run yesterday in my pot still on my 50l keg boiler, and i took it down to just above 10% (chasing tails pretty deep for running the feints through a reflux still.)

My question is:
What is left in the still is around (or just above) 10% abv. (about 10l of it)
I mean 10% abv is 10%abv, right?

Or is what is left in the boiler going to be too offensive and not give me anything good?

Puk.

it's early and i can't think properly yet :smile:
but i don't think just because it's coming off at 10% means that the remaining 10L is all 10%.
maybe it's all to do with the boiling points of different mixtures.
eg when you are getting 96% abv on a reflux run, it doesn't mean that what's in the boiler is 96% does it?
when you are stripping a 10% wash and you start with around 60% at the spout, it doesn't mean that what's in the boiler is 60%.

ther's probably some scientific graph somewhere which would help us, but i need coffee right now (-|

btw i also use my feints in the next run

[Puk]

Yes, that makes sense.
I have thrown out what was left in the boiler and am making some more TPW to throw the feints in with, in my friend's reflux still.
I will go through all my 300ml bottles this afternoon and make my cuts and start the oaking/ageing process on this MacWhisky run.

Puk

[B-Man]

once you do it for a while you realise its not worth your time collecting under 20%
when it starts getting that low its probably in the 0.05% range for what's left in the boiler.

[RC Al]

20 is fine for neutral
As low as you can be bothered for most other stuff(10 usually for me) there is a bunch of flavour sitting in there

There's also Sweetwater, after wet dog tails finish, what comes off is actually quite nice tasting and great for proofing down.

[harold01]

20 is fine for neutral
As low as you can be bothered for most other stuff(10 usually for me) there is a bunch of flavour sitting in there

There's also Sweetwater, after wet dog tails finish, what comes off is actually quite nice tasting and great for proofing down.

well I just learnt something, thanks for that, I have been shutting down at 30%
Will definitely be looking for the sweet water from now on

[B-Man]

20 is fine for neutral
As low as you can be bothered for most other stuff(10 usually for me) there is a bunch of flavour sitting in there

There's also Sweetwater, after wet dog tails finish, what comes off is actually quite nice tasting and great for proofing down.

I was having some tails issues with my bubbler but with my t500 alembic dome I don't really get any wet dog tails just get what im guessing you call sweet water. I never really used it in the watering down. mainly because its already below 65% and would like to oak at 65% but since I was never using it I just ended up stopping everything at 20% might have to keep it for watering down my bubbler runs and see what it does. I normally do 2 runs in a day when I get a chance to do a still run so sometimes I stop the tails as soon as see any fusel oils starting so I can get another run done in the day