Georgeous

i appreciate that Adam and most likely the avenue we will take with this batch when we redistill it. As for the brewery consultant we have been talking with a consultant distller to come out and familiarize us with the workings of our column. We got the pot distilling down fine, but need to master the column. i have 5 x 18" plates in this beast and yes on a spirit run would probably be over 160 proof. we will take this batch and add 200-300 gallons of water and start with two or three plates and see what we get.

Also, had i had used the column instead of stripping run as 51 gallons out of 600 was potential 100% ethanol i guess that would have been ok to run all five plates?

thats exactly what we should have done, dont know the column yet still researching it. How many plates would you recommend starting with? Also as we come from a thumper world how long to rectify? At a certain point it can only rectify so much and the vapors will pass to the column, right? So lets say i only wanted to use 3 or 2 plates , since it feeds from the bottom up the column i guess we would have to by pass the upper two or three plates?

yep thats what i figured

1. we have 400L recieving tanks but we also weighed it. 2. we have a 600 gallon pot still with whiskey helmet and 5 plate column. did not use the column as this is new to us coming from a moonshine still with a thumper.

This was already a very long run and just the way we were taught at distillery in virginia was to stop running on stripping run at 20%. When we stopped we were running the still at 98°C / 208°F and were getting a trickle out of the still. for you column experts if i had used the column should i have opened all 5 plates and how long would you let it go with dephlegmator? Until it can rectify no more?

so my almost 100 gallons of 37.7% ABV is correct? Also we did not run this through our column only our whiskey helmet. We came from a 50 gallon copper moonshine still with a thumper to a 600 gallon pot still with a whiskey helmet and a 5 plate 18" column. We havent grasped the concept yet of using a column so we bypassed it for our maiden voyage on this monster. Very new to the whole dephlegmator thing. From what i been reading i probably should have but not sure how much that would have stripped out our flavors yet. Life used to be so simple.

Well I have a 600 gallon still with a 5 plate column I also was told by my manufacturer to use a half charge. so now I'm at the Dilemma do I take my hundred gallons and add 200 gallons of water and run it through the refracting columns ?

Ok well this is what i was looking for. i came up short about 38.4 US Gallons providing this calculator is correct. Now my Anton Parr Digital Hydrometer has an accuracy of .1. so if i continued to collect to a 35% collective and not stop at 37.7 i may have hit this target So now i have to redistill to do my cuts. i am now afraid that 100 gallons of stripping run collective is too small for my 600 gallon still, thoughts?

gotcha, but my question in the end is: if starting with a mash of 600 gallons at 8.5% ABV and my target is to stop collecting at 20% ABV in the parrot for a spirit run targeting 35% ABV of the collective. What volume in Gallons not proof gallons should i expect to collect?

so based on this formula i got from ttb Converting U.S. gallons into proof gallons for tax purposes:1. Multiply U.S. gallons by the percent of alcohol by volume.2. Multiply by 2.3. Divide by 100.My calculation:1. 100 U.S. gallons x 37.7% alcohol by volume=37702. 3770 x 2=75403.7540/100= 75.4 proof gallons seems low to me. i was expecting higher volume. i actually collected right at 100 gallons of 37.7 % abv. i use a snap 51 digital alcohol meter to get the final reading. so yes you are correct EUD, but what i am asking is what should i have ended up with? i thought from 600 gallons i would of stripped out a lot more.

Meerkat, i did not have 37.7 proof gallons, after the stripping run i have 100 gallons of 37.7%ABV product

so my 100 gallons of 37.7ABv is = to 38.5 gallons of 100 ABV?

So I used my snap 51 digital hydrometer to take accurate readings out of the parrot. my first runnings came out at about 82% I stopped at 20% and ended up with a hundred gallons of 37.7% collective. I felt this was short in volume

You know when you are making beer there are calculators for everything. Distillers have very few, hell i have yet to find a good mash calculator as corn is not on any of them. So i have a 600 gallon bourbon mash i want to do a stripping run on i plan on collecting all the way down hot and fast no cuts till i got 20%abv out of the parrot. So how do i calculate to determine about how much volume to expect? Now logic tells me i have 600 gallons x 8.5% = 51 gallons of alcohol, but i wont be collecting 100%. My range coming out will start somewhere around 85%ABV and Finishing at 20% ABV. My target is overall of the collection to be about 35%. What would you expect this to yield in volume. Now i have already done this and i know what i ended up with. I want to know: 1. why is there not stripping run calculators 2. What to expect on a stripping run so i have a receiving tank that can accommodate this Your thoughts?

yes

Can you send me a picture of yours so I can see what your traps look like wood blowdown valves

i have a 600 gallon cold liquor tank that i keep at 34°F

50-75 tons of what?

yes my mash pump has 1.5 triclover fittings on it

paul, my outlets on still are 1.5" , this is 2" tube in tube chiller. is there a 1.5"? that is awesome looking system though. i will reach out to susan for quote cheers

so i have no idea what the valves are for either i since removed them and capped them off with triclover covers. on that manifold now are only two things one is the pressure gauge and the other is the pressure/vacuum relief valve

can you send the specs, i dont see the attachment you mentioned. also where is this located?

still available?

Paul, what do these go for? i would like to see pics of what you are talking about. Also what kind of foot print and what else will i need to connect it to my system? thanks George