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David Ridge, Can you give me the web add. for mile high?
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Almost always the reason for clouding after the addition of water to dilute alcohol is because there are minerals in the water being used. These minerals are soluble in water, but not in alcohol. When the two are combined, the minerals are no longer soluble, and come out of solution causing a haze or cloudiness. This can be avoided by using distilled or de-mineralized water when diluting. Be careful on distilled water, though, as some have minerals added to give the water a bit of life.
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use distilled water prefferably some you made yourself as this will produce the best result. also add the water to the liquor and not the other way around.
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add the water to the spirit not the other way around but very important also is the spirit and the water temperature that is each one has to be the same and then you can add the water with no problems oh and about distilled water forget it use bottled drinking water something that tastes good think about how good your coffee tastes anyway good luck with clean clear good tasting spirits
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My problem is a little different, Here's the fix en's
15 gallon stainless keg.
valved copper reflux column.
Marbles.
sugar water.
The product is always fine, clear, no bad smell, looks and tastes great. in the past I was using a black felt type gasket, when I'm done and removed the column to clean the keg, the liquid left in the keg is dark, clear but dark, like tea.. I got rid of the black felt gasket because I thought it might be leeching color. I'm now using a cork gasket with no color and was surprised to see the same dark liquid in the keg when I was done. It never gets above 197 degrees.
Where's the color coming from?
Anyone,..Anyone,..Buler...
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Youv'e gotten some good info from these fine gentleman. In my humble opinion it doesn't matter if you add alcohol to water or water to alcohol. It matters whats in the water or in the alcohol. When this happened to me the culprit was fusel oils or in other words tailings. In the woods where I'm from they call them backings. One of the things that comes with experience is when to make the cut.When head temperature starts ro rise you have to watch it closely and don't let it get to hot. You can lower the power or cool the column somehow but eventualy you have all the good and the oils start coming over. As far as the copper the sulfer compounds will turn it black.The inside of my 2in. copper head is always black when I tear it down for cleaning. I use vinegar to clean and shine it back up.You may have some flooding, I agree with a slow heat up and I only fill my pot to 3/4 full. Hope I,ve been of some help.
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How big is your pot, and how much product do you typically end up with?
Thanks! K
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I use a 19 gallon water heater with a 115 volt element. I put 15 gallon in usually. The yield varies depending on what I'm running.With 30lb. of sugar and two packs of turbo8 I got 8 liters ,carlo rossi 4L jugs,of 180proof 2L of tailings and threw away 1/2L at the beginning of the run as forshots.I may have gotten a little more but I was really drunk at the time.
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Just read about the dark color in your keg. Can't help you there. Thats a new one on me.Does it smell like burnt yeast in the keg?
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Posted by biscuit n. gravey on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 04:11 pm: Just read about the dark color in your keg. Can't help you there. Thats a new one on me.Does it smell like burnt yeast in the keg?
Not at all, just that fermented sugar water smell. when I dump it out, the bottom is spotless, I also thought it might have burnt while warming up, but it doesn't appear so. Puzzling...
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Thanks, I'm relatively new, using a 15 gallon keg, propane turkey fryer base combo, and wanted to see how my output compares to someone that knows what they are doing. Looks like I'm on track, with 30 lbs of sugar, 2 packs of Vodka yeast ,I wasn't paying attention and used Vodka yeast instead of turbo, took for freaking ever, longer than beer, and 13 gallons of water I'm getting about 6L of quality product, throwing away a little more than 1/2L of forshots, and saving 1 1/2 L of tailings of tailings. I save into 1.75L Smirnoff bottles and change the bottle when I have a temperature change, I write the temperature on the bottle so I keep things straight when I filter. Seems to work pretty good. Thanks again for the info  K
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