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Folks
What would be the ultimate top-ten tips for making pure tasting alcohol from a reflux still?
How to get it ultra pure with no flavour. The stuff that dreams are made of. From cuts to mash. Fire away. ^:)^

Didn't ya know they are hidden randomly around the site,ya just gotta read more.cheers hillzabilly :laughing-rolling: ;-)

hillzabilly wrote:Didn't ya know they are hidden randomly around the site,ya just gotta read more.cheers hillzabilly :laughing-rolling: ;-)

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Ok from another newbie I'll send you down this research rabbit hole: :twisted:

Theoretical plates - you need 40 of them

Because of the max effective height to diameter ratio, ON PAPER you would need to go roughly 4m of 6" with scrubbies @9000w of power & 2:1 reflux ratio (scoria would be a better choice?) Any smaller diameter cant make it @ the recomended max of 30x diameter for a reflux column https://homedistiller.org/calcs/hetp_calc

on a regular hobby system, to achieve that at home i dare say you will need to look at a vacuum set up or something i havent found yet thats equally exotic

Reflux still tight cuts then filter the hearts. is about as good as ya gunna get if your cuts are good you wont even need to filter. If your going for purity do even tighter cuts and stay closer to middle of cut jars when blending..

Rerunning hearts of hearts of hearts is the way to get where you want to be :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Doing cuts on both runs? I have made zero neutral so know zip...

Sam. wrote:Rerunning hearts of hearts of hearts is the way to get where you want to be :handgestures-thumbupleft:

This is how I got the best out of my T500

Start with a good wash

Don't make a turbo wash. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Dont use more than 1kg per 5l water, :handgestures-thumbupleft: i actually go bit less at 4kg per 30 :-B

bluc wrote:Dont use more than 1kg per 5l water, :handgestures-thumbupleft: i actually go bit less at 4kg per 30 :-B

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I use 3 kg per 20 L weetbix wash.

Also, make sure your ferment temperature is in the appropriate range for the yeast you use. Bakers I like to keep at 30 but it can go higher.

The advice stated here is all pretty well on target ...but if there were one tip to make reagent quality ethanol it would be to cut hard... our discard rate is about 57% to achieve ethanol at a quality we are comfortable with. Carbon filtration will help, but does not take the place of good cutting. Also we do not reprocess the discards, they are used in ethanol fireplaces to heat our home and bar .
Doc

All great tips ^:)^

I’ve tried the hearts of hearts of hearts but you’re not left with much. Considering it’s about 20hours on your Jaxsy for such a small morsel of pure...

What about the salt and bicarbonate arguments? Jury seems to be out as to whether it makes a difference.

If you want more end product start with more wash.
There are no magic bullets or little things that you add a capful to your wash or booler and hey presto pure "100%" ethanol.

:text-+1: my advice get a bubbler faster output and bigger boiler more end product per run. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

bluc wrote::text-+1: my advice get a bubbler faster output and bigger boiler more end product per run. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Does the bubbler put out super pure though? (must confess I need to read up on different types of stills I’ve read some posts but don’t have a clear understanding). I’m still rocking a t500. Does anyone sell a bubbler premade?

Going back to the tips. What about salt etc?

if you want the best neutral making machine check this out

Rolls.

Listen to the people here.

No salt is going to make a miracle :laughing-rolling:

Click on the 5 Star Distillery link, they got the best complete out of box stills