Distiling beer

The distillation process itself

Distiling beer

Postby blackmoor » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:43 pm

I have 20 litres of beer which I don\'t like. I\'ve remember reading somewhere that i could distill it to whiskey.
Has anyone done that here? If I pour 4,5 litres of beer into the distller (Beer has 4,5% alcohol) how much hearts can i collect from a one run?
User avatar
blackmoor
Regular
Regular
 
Posts: 25
Joined: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:30 am
Location: Finland

Distiling beer

Postby optic » Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:35 am

Hi blackmoor

using the pot still calculator on the homedistiller site your beer at 4.5% alc should produce around 1.4 ltrs @ 13% alc,this will take around four and a half hours to run including warm up time,so I should think that by the time you have distilled it a second time you will end up with a couple of litres of usable spirit at the most from the 20 litres.As this is all going to take best part of thirty hours distilling,IMO you may be better of tipping the beer down the drain if you really dont like the taste.
Optic
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me-Winston Churchill
User avatar
optic
Senior Distiller
Senior Distiller
 
Posts: 356
Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:37 am
Location: grotty old GB
Stills: Super Reflux


Return to Distillation

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

User Menu

Login Form

Who is online

In total there is 1 user online :: 0 registered, 0 hidden and 1 guest (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 72 on Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:14 pm

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest