Thanks for that Phantom,
When you say 5 and 10 litres at a time. Is that the total through one batch of carbon or 5 or 6 times that. I\'ve only just bought my filter as the small bottle top filter that came with my Air Still wasn\'t very efficient. The instructions don\'t give any clue as to how much distillate you can put through one pack of carbon.
Each batch of spirit is either 5 to 10 litres. So what I tend to do, is use 1 pack of the carbon, put it into the filter housing (as per instructions), then run water through it until it runs clear and any tiny carbon dust particles have been removed. Then I\'ll run a batch of spirit through it (usually 2 or 3 times).
The actual filter part of the above description, is repeated for 5 or 6 batches. Then I change the carbon, and start the whole process again.
I\'ve not had any problems doing that. It\'s entirely up to you how often you change the carbon. Though the more often you change it, the more expensive the process becomes.
As for boiling it, as Jimmy suggests, well the "distillers carbon" packs, are actually where it\'s obviously been crushed to dust and then "extruded" though a dye, so it\'s in the form of pellets, looking rather like tiny "animal feed nuts/cake". I\'d think that if you did boil it you\'d end up with black sludge. By just hydrating/rinsing it as per the instructions for the filter, it seems to work well.
I can\'t say if you used carbon that looks like it\'s just tiny pieces of broken up twigs. That would probably stand boiling, but I don\'t see the necessity for doing that. Though that\'s not to suggest that Jimmy\'s method is wrong, it\'s just how you\'ve found it to work best!
Hope that helps some (and makes sense of course)Statistics: Posted by Phantom — Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:43 pm
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