Packersfan1964 Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 I've heard two predominant themes on how to deal with heads, assuming you toss the inital foreshots. 1) Clean with em, burn em, use for nail polish remover 2) save them and recycle in your next spirits run We've always taken option #1, but seeing all those precious gallons of alcohol down the drain got me thinking about recycling them permanently like we do with tails...what do you all think/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestar Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 We use foreshots for solvent/paint remover (1). Then recycle heads with tails and low-wines (2). For this to work well, should keep heads clean by running foreshots a bit longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huffy2k Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 We save the foreshots for cleaning and dilute and dump the heads down the drain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertS Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 We redistill with the column to make GNS. Recover about 2/3 as usable alcohol. The heads of the heads are another matter, we've just been letting those slowly pile up for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distiller76 Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 I'm taking all of my heads and tails from the previous days run, And adding them to the beer well every morning and running them through the continuous column with the green beer. Most of the heads volatilize and gas off, while keeping my yield pretty consistent. I'm very meticulous about base line samples and didn't notice a single change in quality when I switched to this process. By doing this, I was able to gain an extra 53 Gallon barrel per day. This is just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falling Rock Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Distilled Spirits Plant (Beverage and Industrial) - A distilled spirits plant may conduct beverage and industrial operations from the same premises. If you wish to produce both beverage and industrial distilled spirits, you need to file an application to conduct both types of operations. I know it has been discussed before, but has anyone actually gotten a combo Bev/Industrial DSP and sold Industrial Alcohol? My assumption is that it just isn't worth the record keeping and aggravation. However, if one had a ready customer (volume)...it could be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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