StillSmart

Hi all Just ran my first Tom Paste wash and was very pleased with it expect I only got half the amount of nuteral that the recipie says it yeilds any ideas would be greatly appreciated.... I ended up with 1 1/2 Litres with ABV of 92%

Also I googled to see how many teaspoons was in 80 grms and it said it was equivilent to 16 teaspoons could someone please verify if this is correct

Thanks again in advance

Whimpy



6kg sugar
200 grm tp
1/4 tsp citric acid
Pinch Epsom salts
80 gm bakers yeast
Make to 25 l water at 30*

OG 1.072
Fg .970

Cleared with 2 tsp of gelatin in 200 ml of water

Yield 200 ml for shots and 2.6@94%

Whimpy,

I am assuming that the OG and FG figures that you are quoting in your post were the figures quoted in the original thread/recipe.

What were your OG/FG figures?

If you were still pulling 92% why did you stop?

Did you choose to stop? or did the still stop producing anything?

Hi Thanks for the reply..... and you assumed correctly on the gravity my final OG
was around 998 and I stopped collecting because my temp rose from 78.5 to 88 Deg within less than 30 sec and it started to smell like I was collecting tails

Thanks again

Whimpy

Something doesn't sound right, but as you stopped collecting you'll never know how much alcohol was in there.
If I'd collected so little, I would have ran out the tails and re run the whole lot again, even if it meant cleaning the condenser to get rid of the tails stink.

I currently have a TPW settling out. I haven't got a clue what the OG & FG figure are because I need to get hydrometer. I followed a slightly different recipe and made 18l up. When it has been distilled as per AM Guidelines I will add the post. I'm only new to this as well so I am learning as I go.

Completed my strip runs.

I had 18 - 20 litres of wash (TPW) and approx 1.2 litres of tails from SS Tripled distilled.

I have just completed 5 strip runs and now have around about 7.5 litres at 35% abv.

This will be cut down to 30% to give 2 spirit runs of 4 litres each.

I will let you know what the final score is when I have completed both spirit runs.

Hi Wimpy64,

I have completed my first 4l spirit run with the following results:

50ml Fores
150ml unusable Heads. (Stored for head run at later date)
100ml usable Heads. 73%
1000ml Hearts. 64%
200ml Tails. Didn't check just stopped collecting when output dropped to 30%. Tails (wet cardboard / musty smell) very prominent on last collection of 75ml.

Hope this gives you some feedback to compare your output.

2nd spirit run.

50ml Fores.
250ml Heads.
800ml Hearts. (65% abv)
400ml Tails. (Collected down to 30%)

I'm still learning the cut's and their aroma's.
I am a lot happier with the spirit quality I got from this run than the previous. But as stated previous here are 2 sets of figures I got from my first TPW for comparison.

I was advised by one of the other (Frank I think) that the TPW gets quite "funky" on the nose when you get into the tails. No kidding, I personally think that the TPW is easier to detect than the Turbo's.