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So I know that the amount of feints added to a batch is up to the distiller, "Distillers measure", but I am starting my third batch and have no idea what amount of feints to add to this batch from the previous one. Any rule of thumb or % equation to use as a guide to start? Any advice would be great! Thanks!

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I put it all back in the spirit run.

I run an alembic pot, ie, no plates.

I assume you would do the same with a still with plates, but others would know better.

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We do 4 strips and then a spirit run in our pot with a thumper. We take the heads and tails (feints) from our spirit run, combine together and divide this volume by 4 and put each fourth in the pot with our finished mash for that days strip. Every fifth spirit run we dump all of the heads to avoid a build up. Any tails buildup seems to take care of themselves when we dump the pot. Part science, part gut.

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Still kind of developing my method, but recently I've been leaning toward putting them in my stripping run. If there's anything in my feints that doesn't come through by the time I've called the run at 10% ABV at the parrot, I don't want it going into the spirit run charge.

We run a dual tower hybrid still, so I strip using just the pot, and do the spirit run using a single tower and don't begin hearts collection until the dephlegmator output temperature reaches at least 80 deg C (but using sensory as the primary determinant of when to begin hearts collection). I then compress the tails by dropping dephlegmator temperature at the end, so we don't end up with too much feints volume anyways.

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