by MacStill » Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:11 pm
I'm going to stick my neck out here and diagnose it.
My still gets filthy pretty quick when doing rums, and believe the cause is the vapor isn't crystal clear when leaving the boiler, the first tee ends up filthy progressively getting better up the column as the purifying is happening the tees become cleaner.
If your still was made entirely of copper all these impurities are sucked into the column rather than just creating a film of scum and nasty shit, a solvent like the fores & heads would be removing some of this crap on the next run, and if not refluxing this for a length of time could result in a little color coming through at the start.
I guess it opens some debate as to best materials, but that's not the point here...... run strategies are.
For a sparkly clean bling bit of SS still I like to start out on the most neutral of my runs, low wines, feints etc working my way through the wash's until I get to the manky black rum wash... I'm sure you's get the drift. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
So then (being that rum is my passion) I'll run my most common and filthiest shit through the column until I'm done, then strip down, clean etc. and the cycle begins again :handgestures-thumbupleft:
If I'm just dribbling shit doing a half arsed drunken job of trying to sound intelligent I'm sure you'll all get a laugh at least, but who knows if I'm right I could win an element & ya gotta be innit to winnit :teasing-blah: