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Hi gang

Can anyone tell me why my still is "panting"? It's a 60 liter alambic still from portugal. You can see the video here --->

I put a rag over the nozzle so that you can actually see it breathe, but you should be able to hear it as well if you turn up the volume.

At the time, I was doing a stripping run.

Normal? Unusual? Weird?

Your thoughts.

Cheers.

The answer is not "simple". The math to derive the answer, however, is simple. Except the math takes work. And so does distilling...

If you are not a distiller, nor a brewer, then what are you doing here? And if you are legitimately trying to get into the business, then it only gets harder from here. Posts like this piss me off and continuing to insist that you want a simpler answer devalues the work real people on the forum put in every day.

Best of luck, you are going to need it. -Scott

You're a real ray of sunshine, Scott.

I'm sorry for bothering you... I didn't know this was a forum for experts only, and that anyone who has an interest in knowing more or perhaps taking their first steps in the art of distilling should fuck off and look elsewhere.

Let's do it rough: 250g of 10% might push 8% into the strip, or 40pg. Your spirit run will yield 50% to 80% of that, depending how conservative your cut, and how you use the feints, so 20pg to 32pg. Let's say 30pg, efficiently recycling feints and clean cuts. Now, you can run maybe 4 strips into each spirit run. So 5 runs of the still gives you 120pg. Assume you can run the still twice a day for 5 days, thats 240pg, or 240g at 50 proof, or 300g at 40 proof. Or 1500 fifths per week at 40 proof. Not so far off from Sherman's estimate, if he was assuming 500 fifths per week from a 100g still. Tweak any of the numbers along the way up or down, and you can move this estimate up or down 40% easily.

Thanks for a very detailed answer. The thing is, though, I'm looking for a much simpler answer. Not that I don't appreciate the info, it's just that, seeing as I'm not a distiller nor a brewer, I'm not very well versed in the lingo you're using, plus, english is not my first language

20 per day 100 gallons. If you are doing sugar shine slightly more. 500 Bottles per week single shift.

Thanks for the input, Sherman. Just to clarify, is that 20 bottles per day using a 100 gallon still?

I'm mainly looking for someone who can fill in these blanks: A 250 gallon pot still can produce _______ gallons of ___% (____ proof) whiskey per week.

Hey gang

I need your best guess or personal experience. Running a 250 gallon still 5 days a week, how much whiskey is produced? Ballpark figure.