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Recommend going back to the still. With the vodka, run it again, this is easy, all 24 plates. If the intention for your rum is white, you can redistill as well, but only run through your short column (4). In both cases, your focus is going to be on the tail cut. This is entirely based on your comment of visible clouding, which you should not be seeing. This is making me think that carbon will *not* be efficient here, as you'll quickly overwhelm the adsorption capacity, and waste a lot of carbon to get where you are wanting to go. Chill filtration, there's not a whole lot out there for the craft market, most I've seen have cobbled together their own systems out of jacket tanks, freezer chests, plate and frame filters, etc. As far as something turnkey you can just ring up and order? I've never seen one. I'd love to see something work with a smaller 10" Code-7 style filter housing, as opposed to trying to run a smaller volume of spirit through a gigantic plate and frame, losing 25% of my spirit volume in the process.

I'm going to patent marijuana infused Vodka flavored tortilla chips. Satisfy all the cravings at once. I can also see someone on a tour: "Do you mean it's got weed in it when you say it's pot distilled?"

We are also using a Kason centri-sifter. It is by far the best solution to separating grain from stillage that we have found thus far. Our farmer loves the quality of the grain he is getting off of it!

Mixer should be nearly completely silent. I put a black mark on the shaft in the air gap so that I can visually see it turning (electric brawn mixer). If it's 3ph hooked up to a frequency drive you might get noise if the drive is not configured right. Other than that, you need to post a lot more data other than "noise" because we don't know if it's air or electric powered, if its a grinding, squealing or electrical buzz or what.

It could also be the key coupling the motor to the gear reducer. We just dealt with that on our still. It was kind of a grinding sound with a squeak. We just pulled it apart, repaired the motor shaft, replaced the key and it's all quiet again. Not sure why the motor shaft wallowed the key-way out in the period of a couple of months, but it happened. Cheers!