How big a difference was there in the start to finish temperature?

I was wondering if the carbon could absorbe that much.

thanks div4gold

"Thank You Heeler

I meant the alc % Sorry


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I just use 2 coffee filters, I don't cut them I just put them in there and clamp it down. Be sure when you start that , first clamp off the plastic tube. Then fill the column with warm water and start spooning your just boiled carbon into the column. When it's full wait till the water drains down to the top of the carbon and then pour in your liquor. You should be able to feel the difference in the temperature of the liquor and the water that it is forcing out of the column. When the liquor gets down towards the bottom of the column start tasting it, you should have no problem figuring out when the liquor starts to come out. Then start collecting. Don't pack the carbon in the column, if you tap the column when you are adding the carbon it will pack and it will take forever to filter your booze. There should be a O ring in the end cap of the column, use it.

When all of your booze is drained down to the top of your column (finishing up) then pour in a quart of so of warm water and follow it down the column to get all of the liquor out, when the warm water gets down towards the bottom of the column start tasting again and when the water shows up quit."

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I don't remember what I did the first time. I think I just made sure I had enough to fill the tube and then boiled it, it doesn't matter if you have a little extra since you just use it again the next time. I do boil it just before filling the column though. Just make sure that the column is either full of water or booze and don't let it run dry. I can filter 6 gallons on one cycle. Then I boil the carbon a couple of times and cook it in the oven for the next filtering job. I've been using the same carbon for over a year now."

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After I use my carbon I boil it and pour it off twice. I don't really think there is any alcohol left in it when I put it in the oven, hardly any smell at all and that's probably oils. I read somewhere that just boiling it gets a 80-90% recovery. The actual baking in the oven just cooks out the remaining oils. I wouldn't tell you to use a gas oven but I wouldn't think you'd blow anything up if you boiled it good before you used the oven. I use a glass cake pan when I put it in the oven. Good luck :)"

"Mongoose......the first time you fill your tube with carbon it should be boiled to clean it really good. Now thats it in the tube and you've used it 2 or 3 times, pour boiling water right down the tube. I usually set up my stand and boil about a qt or so of water maybe more, and pour it through -- let it run and keep checking with my finger to see when it starts running hot. I also taste it for hooch. Now remember once you have poured water through the carbon WILL hold water.
So now you pour likker into the tube but dont collect for keeps yet....... lots of water will come first and if you add all of that to the keeper jug it will dilute the end product. Keep tasteing until the good stuff starts comeing and then collect. simple really once you understand whats happening inside the tube. I pour 120 proof likker into my filter cause one time I did'nt know about the eccess water and ended up with 60 proof likker. Thats ok if thats what you want ---- just know that will happen. Hope this helps."

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I believe what you are refering to is before the first use, that gets the dust out of it and preps it. On the recycling of the carbon I boil it and pour it off twice. By the second boil you should hardly have any smell in the vapors coming off of it.

When I'm getting ready to filter , the night before I put it in water and let it sit until I get ready the next day. I boil it just before putting it in the column. Works good for me."