Pre-warming the wash?

by **Jimmy** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:08 pm

You should be able to get away with discarding less, some say as little as 5ml but I tend to go around 50ml personally - experiment and see what you think!

by **Ronbo** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:21 pm

Agree with Jimmy here, the 100mL discard quantity usually refers to a 25Litre run by those with column type stills.

With an air-still, you probably only need to dump about 15 to 20 mL down the drain \'the Devil\'s share\'

But you need to do it each time.

Ciao.

by **swill** » Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:19 am

Thanks for those ideas gents,
I discarded about 50mls on the second run. Adding the tails to the next wash was pretty good, distillate came out at 65% this time. There was a very faint sweetish aroma to the distillate that I picked up even after I added the SS classic whiskey essence. Now I\'m gonna strip the rest of the wash (16L) and then double distil it, dilute to 40% and then filter it.

by **swill** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:33 pm

Well I didn\'t end up filtering it, just wasn\'t warranted. Came out at 80% and clean and pure and odourless. So I made vodka, very nice, more scotch, don\'t know yet, and drambuie, oh my goat!! Lovely.
I\'m so happy with my new ss airstill.