"Bill, It is recommended that you boil and pour off the water etc. first prior to useing the carbon.
tthere is a free book, last I checked at the brewhaus site, for download on carbon use. What I do and love it, is put all my final product into a glass carboy with a large amount of cleaned carbon, shake and open top to fresh air whenever I can. Thats for neutral. When doing whiskey, i add the toasted oak, do the same shakeing swirling, and breath of fresh air. Of course no carbon. Here I want taste and ageing.

For the neutral, I would just siphon off what I needed out of the large carboy, and run through a filter with coffee filter liners. Slow, but works great. I do have a column filter. I will never use it again, just not as goood or simple, unless I want same day response. I can wait for better."

"Bill, get that carbon book from brewhaus, it will help you a lot. I first rinse with hot tap water, then boil the carbon for 10 or so minutes (can't remember exact times) then pour off most all the water and rinse twice more with hot tap water. Stir and agitate a lot during all this. You will not get the carbon dust after this, and also the chemicals used in processing the carbon are now gone.

After useing the carbon, even on 95% alc. you are going to be in for a shock when you repeat this process to clean the carbon. You will then bake the carbon at whatever temp. the book says to dry and remove the last amounts of yuck. Best to turn on the exhaust if you have one or open windows and doors. I do 5 gal. batches for several months and the carbon gets really rank even though I start with 95+%. I like it unfiltered, but a whole lot nicer filtered. Then get some glycerine to add to the diluted to drink stuff. Makes a differance. Get that free e-book."

Found it, Thanks.