EZ Filter Cartridges

[Seagull]

The instructions say that one EZ filter cartridge is good for one batch of spirit from a 25 litre wash. So using a T500, I reckon that's about 7 litres of spirit.

Has anybody got any tips on using these carbon filter cartridges for longer than recommended? Or at £4.50 a cartridge, is this just a false economy?

I'm sure I read somewhere that boiling a used cartridge for 20 minutes will clean the cartridge for reuse?

Any tips or experience would be great to hear.

Thanks.

[Mash]

I air dry mine and then put them in a oven at 110c for 1/2 hour.

This is the systemI bought ages ago and don't use often. It came out over christmas to clean up some gin experments after re-running.

[Seagull]

Thanks Mash, I'll give that s try. I'm loathe to bin the cartridge after just one use. Do you reckon that you can only get away with drying and reusing it once before replacing it?

[Mash]

They seem to slow down after 4 or 5 times.

I plug mine in a leave it to dribble.
They seem to run best with spirit at 50%

[Seagull]

Good to know, thanks. I usually run spirit at about 45% to allow for residual water and allow to it trickle slowly.

[hampk]

Essencia

Sorry

#justsaying..

Cheers

Hampk

[Easydrinker]

+1 hampk
Essencia filters are refillable at home, both of them, as I recently discovered.
Very cost efficient.
Very efficient.
Read all about it...
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Robert.

[Phantom]

I was looking at the current Still spirits model last weekend, just to take a guesstimate at the quality of the plastic and molding.

The shop bloke mentioned about gently simmering the carbon "cartridge" to reuse it.

I mentioned about the suggested method in Gert Strands "Carbon Filtration" e-book, which applies to me more closely as I've got the original Z filter.

This is where you just pour freshly boiled water onto the carbon and let it soak for a short while, then gently pour the water away and repeat (about 5 or 6 times, until there's no longer any smell of spirit in the steam coming off a soaking bit of carbon). Once you're happy it's been cleaned enough, you dry it out in a low oven.

It's worked OK for me so far and I just buy a new bag of carbon once a year to keep enough in to refill my filter assembly while cleaning the rest off.......

Dunno how many times the ones that have like a "carbon pipe" type cartridge can be re-used before it starts to break down (as it eventually does).......