StillSmart

Anavrin wrote:
Interesting!

Interesting indeed.

Not that I have been using graphs,yours are an eye opener,but my standard lentil wash is now run on a numbers basis learned from multiple runs and washes,hardly bother to taste many collection vessels.
I might give a graph a try,to see what it shows.

Robert.

@ Anavrin: My thanks for putting the graphs together. I should think they will provide some good help and help others better understand their stills. It demonstrates the end of the run very well. With the same wash, equipment and procedure, they will duplicate every time within a small margin.

I still feel you could start collecting earlier. Do you let your high wine breath after you have run it? On a sugar based wash I get rid of only about 100ml before I start collecting. This on a 45-48L strip. I do the same again on the spirit run. The end result is perfect.

Hi RunJohn

Yeah I let this lot air in the jars got about 5-6 day I think, I went away for 4 nights over new year.

I've got 19 litres at 66% of strip from four 25lt sugar wash's, it's all from turbo yeasts mind, I've been experimenting with keeping the ferment temp low for turbo's to see if it produces a better result, this should give me a still charge of over 40 litres at 30% for the spirit run.

I'll be using a packed section above my plates this time so I won't see as much of a temp / ABV change but I'll will be creating another table to make a graph with, see how it compares to these graphs.

Like Robert said, it an eye opener, it would be good if others could create the same kind of graphs to compare results.