This is a real complicated hobby..till you sorta get used to it then its like riding a bicycle. First off you need to start with a water run to test your fittings..then you need to do a vinegar and water run to clean up where the drunk builder dribbled solder into the consumption area..clean your packing etc. What are you using for packing by the way? Then you need to do a sacrificial alcohol run. Now everybody say dont drink the sacrifice run..but I ran it twice and drank it so it apparently aint immediately fatal. If you want to rerun it needs to go in the already fermented wash not to exceed 40% alcohol level. Apparently when it hits 100 proof (50 percent ABV) it can become explosive in the boiler. Slay everybody on the block etc. The only time I have heard the generational term applies to washes and/or mashes. There is a difference ya know? For example my Mentor is trying to teach me how do to generational Sweet Feed Runs. As good as can be understood when you dump the liquid on the first generation and it goes into the boiler...you take out about a third of the SF and replace it with fresh SF.. cover it with a gallon of water to keep it happy..then dump more sugar and water back in there along with a couple gallons of backset (that is the part left over in the boiler after you have knocked most of the alcohol) and let it ferment again another time. At some point in this chain of events it supposed to turn into Sour Mash. Heard of folks doing this with all kinds of other grain washes. Just started generation 3 on the Sweet Feed. Bad news is the ants found it too:) Pesky varmints.

Well two feet is pretty short for a refluxer. The one I got is six feet tall or so..and the copper model the plumber is building is about the same. On the pot scrubbers be sure to get pure copper. Dont buy the copper plated models. Believe I heard the term Chore Boy mentioned as being all copper. Which those can be found at a big grocery store in these parts called Market Street (flagship yup store for United Supermarkets). Read the label real close and grab hold of the wallet. The directions which come with my store bought version say to pack them snugly..but not tightly. What you got to keep them from falling into the boiler? Typical keg hook up kit seems to have a screen to keep them from falling in. Will venture at two feet tall you gonna wind up with a packed pot still..which aint bad..but for refluxing you need something tallish I think. Maybe this some kinda new space age technology of which I am unawares. lol.

If you are running it through a pot still forget about head/hearts/tails on your first run. Just do a stripping run first, toss the first couple ounces then collect the rest altogether right into the tails. Collect for a 35% aggregate. So if it starts coming off at 55% collect all the way down to 15%. Then rerun what you have collected which is known as "low wines" on what is called your "spirit" run. For your stripping run you can go hot and fast, for spirit you want to go nice and slow. Collect in pint jars half at a time, keep seperate and in order. Air out over night and sniff and taste test the next day to pick out heads,hearts and tails.