mtstilljockey

Jake,

Our Honey Moonshine (Willie's) is based on a sweetfeed recipe and is classified as a specialty spirit. Been approved and in production now since May. PM me if you have any questions.

Nick

just picked up a 1000ml glass lab still. Been doing 250ml samples so far, just the right amount to float a hydrometer in a graduated cylinder after distillation.

curious how you guys have been doing it previously?

Facing some similar issues here with our chokecherry liqueur. We've been able to successfully filter down to 30 microns (in a ghetto cartridge filter setup) but when we try to run it through our plate filter at 27 microns, we get hopelessly plugged up. A very thin slime of what I assume are colloids coats the filter sheets not allowing anything by? We've tried going down to 20 and 15 microns in our cartridge setup but gum those up pretty quick.

Picked up some ultazyme clarification enzyme, but will this not work with alcohol present?

Not much settles out in a bottle and the mouth feel of the liqueur is good, so is 30 micron sufficient filtering for a liqueur?

Sorry to hijack, Brothers, but seemed like a similar problem. Thanks

Nick,

Thanks for the link. Will be emailing Jeff to see what he can do on the smaller quantity. Out of curiousity how do you you deal with "grounding" that hose or is it a non-issue? I appreciate your reply/suggestion, good to hear you guys chime in. Thanks

Nick

We're looking for about 30 to 40 feet of high alcohol transfer hose in the 3/4 to 1 inch i.d. variety. Plan on using it for our transfer pump to plate filter, so it needs to be rated for suction and discharge. We are trying to avoid buying the 100' roll and were thinking that maybe someone had to do just that and has some leftover sitting around. Let me know what you got! Possibly trade for some 1.5" Goodyear Purple Flexwing. You can reply here or contact me by phone.

Willie's Distillery

406-682-4117

cell:406-531-5165

Nick Yalon