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Joined: 1/28/2008(UTC)
Posts: 17
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"Lately I have been using a much different method of carbon treating my vodka than what is typically reccomended and the results are amazing.
Instead of building (or buying) an elaborate filter pipe, pre-soaking and pre-rinsing the carbon and going through all of the ""very important steps"" I just dump a packet of dry, untreated carbon directly into a jug of 50% distillate, give it a swirl once in a while for a few weeks and - voila - completely tasteless and odorless vodka. I recently treated a potato vodka that way after a very rough stripping run (which I had intended to reflux later) and it is totally clean the way it is - in fact, when I make my wife a drink she always complains that it is mixed too weak because she can't taste the vodka (so I just mix them stronger).
If it is possible to get such great results with such an oversimplified method, why is everyone so hung up on fancy equipment and complicated procedures which don't seem to be any more effective?
Are there health implications or something from prolonged contact of the distilate to the carbon?"
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Rank: Junior Member Groups: Registered
Joined: 5/11/2009(UTC)
Posts: 22
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"Hello Beerbugger. I don't know. I have heard a lot of people mention that they don't use the funnel, and piping that they got in their kit, and they do just what you are doing. Whether it is a first run (Stripping run????) or their Neutral spirit run they say they just throw it on the Carbon and swish it once or twice a week and poor their drinks right out of it. It is a pain to try to figure out how to hold up six feet of carbon and Alcohol and plastic over a bottle.
I am thinking though that the gentleman who wrote the ""Home Distillation Handbook, Ola Norrman"" talks highly of making the purest of Vodka's and gin's and it is a time honored thing to do in Sweden, where catching a buzz is less important than having a neighbor come over and say damn that is good stuff.
I on the other hand am going to make a traditional run with both columns of my still and ""NO"" reflux packing and have a drink with no carbon and diluting to a minimum.....Cheers from the mountain's of Western North Carolina."
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