RC Al wrote:Mate a 1/6 of your volume is not cuts on a pot still or any still for that matter...
If the dunder is still in the boiler, drop the lot back in the boiler and run it through again and do smaller cuts
If its gone, I would suggest re running it with wash from generation #3
This is not how you cut anything except the double retort setup that some scotch and rum producers use, you could stick the middle two jars on oak maybe... dilute some down with water and see whats there.
You cant shortcut learning cuts. This is the single most important skill in our proccess, how much you dont drink is determined by everything else
How long did the run take?
Small SOS now being initiated :angry-banghead:
The scenario is that i have done a Spirit run using my FSD pot.I used two copper rolls in it and ran it nice and slow after having put my BWKO stripping runs in@40 abv.
The still seemed quite happy and I turned the Volts down on my PC so she just trickled out
So I collected
33 jars in total but...
9 jars of 300ml @ 87 % then jar 9 to jar 16 the abv slowly crept down to 83 %,as I kept going,jar17 started at 82 % then slowly crept down to jar 24 which ended at 76 % then the remainder from jar 24 to 33 which finished at 65 %
So I didnt expect these ABV 'S to hold up for so long as previously they came down really fast for the quantity it produced from the combined low wines ( I had at least 25 liters in at 40 %) and ultimately I ran out of bottles ( hangs his head in shame ) while the ABV was still at 65 %.So I stopped the still run as I had been there for 8 hrs and also had the bottle dilemma altho in the back of my mind I'm thinking I could still be pumping out hearts as each bottle smelt ok.
So moving on I aired them and today had a 'go' at cutting them
My completely novice,newbie,totally confused sensory smell taste is saying ditch the first 8 bottles 1- 8 which all came out at 87% and keep all the rest down to and including bottle 33 which is at 65%
Does this sound right and also is it at all possible to do " to slow a run " using the power controller with my pot still in pot mode
As always many thanks Geoff