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"I just picked up a used PS II high capacity column and 8gal pot so I need to learn how to use it. I have a couple really full pear trees that I plan on putting to good use this fall so I need to get cracking early to make my mistakes before I get to my pears. Any help is greatly appreciated. I will be reading as much of this forum as possible to take advantage of all the experience here.
Rob"
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Pear brandy sounds like a good start to me. Welcome and enjoy
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Hi ges and welcome. First run is usually a box of cheap wine. just to test things out. Then go to the recipe section at the bottom of the forum and check out Vodka recipes. Heelers, Super Simple Sugar Vodka is easy and a good wash to learn on.
Have fun and be safe.
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My first run is going to be a vinegar/water solution to make sure things are clean and then I will likely go for a simple sugar recipe to learn how to do this. My neighbor has a barrel full of cherries waiting for some TLC but I want to do some practice runs first. It doesn't hurt so bad if I toss out sugar.
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Welcome Ges, I also reccomend a wine run first...It takes a week or so for the sugar wash to be ready, and with a cheap wine one can run today - after you finish the prep on the sugar wash and set it off to work... Any old cheap box of wine will do and, it's really beneficial for the learning curve - You are just dispatching some crappy wine no one should drink any how  In my experience it was worth it and I got 2 gallon glass jugs outa the investment (I opted for cheap wine in gallon bottles) as well as good confidence on the apparatus when a real run was ready. Cheers and happy drippin's |
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Thanks for the advice. I will try to find some "cheap" wine. Here in Canada cheap wine is a relative thing. "Inexpensive" wine is hard to come by. Should I run the wine in pot mode or reflux mode? Will reflux mode take out most of the flavor?
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That depends on what you want to try. Reflux will take most if not all of the flavor out if run properly. Pot mode will give you more of the flavor of whatever wine you use. I wanted the practice in reflux mode when I did my wine run.
Good luck and have fun
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I did my wine sacrifical run as reflux as it was really cruddy wine called "Rhine" (And it tasted like watermellon rind)... Same for sugar as it's a neutral ..Grains or things I want the flav to show thru, is pot mode, low and slow.. The cool part is you get to see the differences between the modes and it's less anx when you are just doing it for testing versus a wash that you've put a lot of love and care into, besides waiting a week or three to get it to the point it's ready to run.
It's easy to smear the phases it if one isn't managing temps/takeoff carefully and learning that on test specimens was of a great benefit to me. These folks here advised me the same and I took they's advice to heed.
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