jocko Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Hello. Curious what people use butter as opposed to fermcap on stripping runs. Fermcap works, but just curious about a more "natural" approach, and what the amount per gallon of butter people using it might use. Is there a flavor contribution from it? If not butter, then what? Olive oil? Other natural product? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlickFloss Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 The best solution for foaming is a silicone based defoaming agent or a mashbill and cook/ferm protocol that doesn't need to worry about it. Natural lipids will not stay in suspension in your heterogeneous mixture which makes them ineffective for column distillation. I am unclear on the impact of butter or other sources of lipids from food products on batch distillation but can tell you that I wouldn't want to scorch Parkay in my kettle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewstilla Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Replaced fermcap a few years ago with pace 376 as a much cheaper solution. Vegetable oil based and seems to work better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteB Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 I use pure soap that a neighbor makes from olive oil and sodium hydroxide (lye) only. Some supermarket soap labelled as "pure" contains additives including perfume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castaway Fiji Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Yep we run molasses washes and without a silicone based defoamer they are a nightmare, it s cheap as chips , we use about 100ml per 2000L strip...very effective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolverk Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 I use coconut oil as an anti foam for rum, it works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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