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New to all of this. Ran some rum washes through a 8 gallon boiler with a reflux tower. Sugar, molasses, yeast. One stripped and one not. The unstripped run had much better taste. Should I be stripping my rum wash?
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If you are running in reflux there is no need for a stripping run as you are making more of a neutral. If running slow in pot mode you don't necessarily need to do a stripping run. Just make good cuts
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Personally I never do stripping runs but I do run my whiskey at least twice and very slow--
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"A stripping run is used to reduce volume, nothing more. You can do this if you want to combine the low wines from two or more stripping runs into a single spirit run. When I do a reflux run for a neutral I always combine the low wines from at least two stripping runs.
If you're making a neutral, there's no need to strip very low since you probably aren't interested in bringing very much flavor forward anyway. I don't take it down lower than about 20% - 25% in this case. That is, once I'm below 25% I'm done ... sometimes it's 20% ... sometimes it's 23% ... etc.). If you're looking for flavor (rum, whiskey, etc.) you will probably want to bring it down to at least 20% - 15% so you can bring more flavor forward."
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" Originally Posted by: Jwest  New to all of this. Ran some rum washes through a 8 gallon boiler with a reflux tower. Sugar, molasses, yeast. One stripped and one not. The unstripped run had much better taste. Should I be stripping my rum wash? In your paticular case, a stripping run is not nessecary because you're running a reflux still. Stripping runs are basically for increasing the proof of your distillate from pot stills and air stills and they also decrease the volume of your run by a significant margin."
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