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i got a few problems. first i oxygenated my spirit and when i added water to it got hot and cloudy. like it bounced up 20f - 30f degrees!!!!!! i used a brita filter attached to my sink. so i put it in the fridge for a bit and little blue chunks of crap were floatin around in it. is it ammonia? acid? please help. thank you 
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Try removing the word PRO from your request. 
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Originally Posted by: thegracieway  i got a few problems. first i oxygenated my spirit and when i added water to it got hot and cloudy. like it bounced up 20f - 30f degrees!!!!!! i used a brita filter attached to my sink. so i put it in the fridge for a bit and little blue chunks of crap were floatin around in it. is it ammonia? acid? please help. thank you Explain what you mean when you say it got "HOT" Did you add HOT water to it? Cloudy spirits usually = tails. Blue particles usually = Copper Salts Side Note: DON'T DRINK IT! |
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" Originally Posted by: scotty Try removing the word PRO from your request. ............. LOL " |
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"first -- why would you oxygenate your spirit?????
from the narrative you said -- jumped in temp and chunks of crap--- ????
not sure what that even means so you might need a pro!!
ammonia -- no
acid -- no
If you give more details on what you did I bet these folks can figger what you did wrong."
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after i oxygenated it i put it in a bottle and i added cold water to cold spirit and i got extremely warm. wierd. it was crystel clear and when i added water it clouded up and little blue particles floated up to the surface
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and def no heads or tails i was very UN-greedy about that
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" Originally Posted by: scotty Try removing the word PRO from your request. lookin for help not a bad comedy routine"
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" Originally Posted by: thegracieway and def no heads or tails i was very UN-greedy about that If you made your cuts right, and you wound up with good liquor, then the water and the bottle are the suspects, I would guess. If by oxygenate you mean you let it sit open to aerate it, then the environment that you did that in could also be a suspect. Other than that, I'm not sure what to say, except, yea, don't drink it."
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do you mean you aired out your spirits then you diluted them with water and you noticed the reaction of the combination [heat] and it turned cloudy[tails]?
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" Originally Posted by: beer30 do you mean you aired out your spirits then you diluted them with water and you noticed the reaction of the combination [heat] and it turned cloudy[tails]? exactly. super clean bottle and brita filtered water too. i drank about a cup and it seemed fine"
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there is a fancy name for that reaction cant remember what it is maybe someone else can tell you if the cloudy part cleared in a few minutes after being mixed ok if not then a strong chance that you got into tails now as far as the blue chunks cant help you there but i would lean towards what BR said always play safe
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" Originally Posted by: thegracieway i got a few problems. first i oxygenated my spirit and when i added water to it got hot and cloudy. like it bounced up 20f - 30f degrees!!!!!! i used a brita filter attached to my sink. so i put it in the fridge for a bit and little blue chunks of crap were floatin around in it. is it ammonia? acid? please help. thank you I'm just curious about what kind of condenser you are using?"
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a coiled up 1/2 inch copper in a 5 gallon bucket off a keg
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Originally Posted by: thegracieway a coiled up 1/2 inch copper in a 5 gallon bucket off a keg That would be my first look to find out where the 'blue' stuff came from.
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i didnt beer strip. got almost a gallon off 2 stills. first batch seemed fine. coppers clean. Should distill it again? although i was reading on here that u should fill the still 2/3... i filled the still 1/3 of the way up with mash off the bat, 5 gallons. so would i need a small pot still instead of the keg to redistill the gallon? and should i fill it with 10 gallons the next run?
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Originally Posted by: thegracieway i didnt beer strip. got almost a gallon off 2 stills. first batch seemed fine. coppers clean. Should distill it again? although i was reading on here that u should fill the still 2/3... i filled the still 1/3 of the way up with mash off the bat, 5 gallons. so would i need a small pot still instead of the keg to redistill the gallon? and should i fill it with 10 gallons the next run? The only time I ever got a cloudy batch when I added water was when I ran it too far into the tails. I did get some cloudy stuff on rum, it seemed to bubble up into the column . I've since used two copper mesh plugs in the column and haven't ever had that happen again. What type of column are you using?
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just a copper tube comin off a keg like a rainbow into a bucket condenser
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If your column is 2-3 inches you might try a plug or two of copper mesh. 'edit' are you letting your mash clear for a few days before running it?
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Cloudy tails likker is separate and appart from the cloudy exothermic condition. The exothermic reaction is just tiny air bubbles that typically clear right up.
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