Fast Lane Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 So I know that the amount of feints added to a batch is up to the distiller, "Distillers measure", but I am starting my third batch and have no idea what amount of feints to add to this batch from the previous one. Any rule of thumb or % equation to use as a guide to start? Any advice would be great! Thanks!
Falling Rock Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 If it is a stripping run on the same recipe, add all you got. I set a max of 25% of the total alcohol in the pot.
OldSpye Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 What he said. On stripping runs, pour it in, baby!
Fast Lane Posted January 21, 2015 Author Posted January 21, 2015 I have a fractioning still, so I don't do a stripping run. Still throw it all in?
jeffw Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Yes, still throw it all in, it doesn't matter if it is a stripping run or spirit run.
PeteB Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 I put it all back in the spirit run. I run an alembic pot, ie, no plates. I assume you would do the same with a still with plates, but others would know better.
Sudzie Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 We do 4 strips and then a spirit run in our pot with a thumper. We take the heads and tails (feints) from our spirit run, combine together and divide this volume by 4 and put each fourth in the pot with our finished mash for that days strip. Every fifth spirit run we dump all of the heads to avoid a build up. Any tails buildup seems to take care of themselves when we dump the pot. Part science, part gut.
Micah Nutt Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 We add most of our feints (heads + tails - foreshots) to our low wines for the spirit run.
mcsology Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 Still kind of developing my method, but recently I've been leaning toward putting them in my stripping run. If there's anything in my feints that doesn't come through by the time I've called the run at 10% ABV at the parrot, I don't want it going into the spirit run charge. We run a dual tower hybrid still, so I strip using just the pot, and do the spirit run using a single tower and don't begin hearts collection until the dephlegmator output temperature reaches at least 80 deg C (but using sensory as the primary determinant of when to begin hearts collection). I then compress the tails by dropping dephlegmator temperature at the end, so we don't end up with too much feints volume anyways.
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