whiskeytango

What size filtration do most of you use for your aged whiskeys. Not talking about chill filtering just filtering for sediment removal and spirit polishing. We where thinking of doing a 5 micron out of the barrel to remove sediment then a 1 micron pre bottling.

I'd guess about 135.52 days.

I don't think the tank/still size should count as anything. Unless your fire people are just assuming that if you have that capacity your most likely to use it and thus put yourself out of compliance.

The messed up thing is its all so subject to the local officials that if you get one with a bad attitude or just a very strict understanding of the regs your in for a fight,

If you end up with over 60 gallons per stripping run your out of compliance. Do you have projections on how much output you will have each run?

How large is your larges still?

Anyone out there using these new Alcohol meters?

http://www.anton-paar.com/us-en/products/group/alcohol-meter/

Can someone just give me a run down on how to account for obscuration?

I get that you take an exact amount, Distill this collect the distillate adjust the temp so that its the same as when you started and add water to reach the exact amount you started with. Then take the true proof reading.

So for example you start with 1000 ml of 100 proof (before you distill it and ad water)

After you distill it and ad water I'm assuming your proof will go down. Is this correct?

Also assuming the obscuration number is the difference between your starting proof and your end proof?

Once you have this number can you just adjust your proof readings by this or do you have to re distill a small amount every time you step down getting closer to proof?

Here is another little blurb i saw this morning http://www.chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2014/08/is-montana-about-to-become-whiskey.html

looks like they are going to be cranking out some good whiskey pretty soon.

Pete

I know he is a real person that offers his services all over this board.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck...

So their "Vodka" still puts out 180 proof at 5 gallons per hour. Only problem is thats not vodka. Do they have specs on what it will produce at 190 proof to actually make vodka?

You see much scorching of your mash at that temp?

Any PSI / GPM requirements?

Natrat

what kind of pump do you have driving it?

Hey James

what kind of pump are you using to run this?

Anyone have any leads on a low PSI / GPM spray ball. Its for a small still only needs to have a cleaning radius of about 2'.

Trying to rig up a cost effective CIP system.

If it tastes good your in the ballpark. But i think most people stop collection around 30% abv.

Hey Teton

did you ever hear any salary ranges for head distiller? Would be curious to know what some going rates are. I know ever situation is different but there is not a lot of info out there to even get a starting point with.

John,

For industry sake yes we need to look at the ramifications of this. But for safety sake the still set up does come into question. For someone who has been running their still for 3 days strait you would hope that the system would be able to handle that. Either it wasn't or its operator error. Both running for 3 days straight and the set up of the still should be called into question. There is no way to tell what happened from the outside hopefully we all can learn something from this accident.

Hope for a Speedy recovery.

That set up looks like a bit funky.

How do you think he was hitting 190 proof on that pot still?

I used Jennifer Royall for our state and fed bond, easy and done right the first time

How did we come up with our name?

Lots of drinking.

For those of you using a bain marie style still with oil in the jacket how hot do you run your oil and what oil are you using?

John, what percentage is 1 hour? Or from what hours to what hours with it?

A bit of a hypothetical question here.

Say you have a 100 gallon still and without an agitator it takes 2 hours to bring the mash up to temp. What kind of speed increase would you expect with an agitator?