StillSmart Home distillation made easy! 2014-08-05T21:38:29+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/feed.php?f=3&t=3089 2014-08-05T21:38:29+00:00 2014-08-05T21:38:29+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20372#p20372 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>
Fil wrote:
so its a myth then, not an advisable practice.. ha, i thought that could be the case due to the total absence of anyone else talking about it..

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I didn't say that ;D I don't know, was just saying there is other dodgy advice on that part of the site, but you are probably right that as no-one else seems to be doing it these days, its probably not a huge advantage (if any).

Also most types of still can remove all of the alcohol from a wash, so I don't really see the point of manipulating the temp slightly with salt, when the end result is the same.
also....

I have done the old calcium carbonate trick mentioned above, although I know it cant pass over in the distillate and is left in the boiler, it changed the flavour and i found it unpalatable - was only slight and was okay to do fruit macerations with, that masked it. but I'm not keen to do it again - (your mileage may differ)

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2014-08-05T20:18:56+00:00 2014-08-05T20:18:56+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20367#p20367 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>
Adding a base will facilitate breaking the ethyl acetate (major component of heads) into ethyl alcohol and sodium acetate (a salt that won't pass over into the distillate). But you need enough to split up all of the molecules. I am not sure this is financially worth it for the amounts that we have and it seems to me to affect the flavour in a way that I don't like). See viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3050

Chuck

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2014-08-05T20:05:00+00:00 2014-08-05T20:05:00+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20366#p20366 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>

so its a myth then, not an advisable practice.. ha, i thought that could be the case due to the total absence of anyone else talking about it..

It was a dodgy batch of beer that got me started thinking about this side of things and once i started reading online i ended up chasing links all over the place.. by the time i realised distilling a hopped beer was more work in post run cleaning than it could be worth i was hooked ;)

Statistics: Posted by Fil — Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:05 pm


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2014-08-05T17:11:06+00:00 2014-08-05T17:11:06+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20363#p20363 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]> http://homedistiller.org/distill/dtw/salt

By HDs own admission, a lot of the info in that section is outdated or anecdotal complied from the old bulletin boards.


Like this for example http://homedistiller.org/distill/polish/methods A product filter made out of upvc anyone. no thanks ;D

Statistics: Posted by Capt-Cudellez — Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:11 pm


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2014-08-05T09:01:23+00:00 2014-08-05T09:01:23+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20360#p20360 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>

Apparently calcium carbonate works almost instantly and can be added in the boiler, where as calcium bicarbonate (baking soda) needs to be added a few days before your spirit run to have the same effect.

It's not something I've tried myself yet but it's on the radar for something to try one day.

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2014-08-05T00:24:11+00:00 2014-08-05T00:24:11+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20357#p20357 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>

AM 8)

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2014-08-04T22:18:03+00:00 2014-08-04T22:18:03+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20351#p20351 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>
late night browsing + late night sampling = ill advised ebay punt..

so i now have a kilo of calcium chloride..

And i cant seem to find the original pages that inspired the purchase ;)

i think it was suggested for use during stripping runs for providing the most hi wine for a spirit run??

Statistics: Posted by Fil — Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:18 pm


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2014-08-03T06:59:59+00:00 2014-08-03T06:59:59+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20341#p20341 <![CDATA[Re: adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>
I'm not sure if a read somewhere that adding salt helps increase the hearts collection by holding back the tails longer, but I might have just made that up.

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2014-08-03T01:10:31+00:00 2014-08-03T01:10:31+00:00 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3089&p=20340#p20340 <![CDATA[adding salt or calcium chloride to a wash..]]>
any point??

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