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just wondering could you run the wash through filter after the sparkloid treatment ? my wash is always a rust color after sparkloid treating. It's just a simple sugar wash.
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It certainly will not hurt to filter, but is the wash not clearing when using Sparkolloid?
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"It's somewhat clear, there does not seem to be particles just a dingy color. I've seen post that says there wash would clear , the same as tap water.
I have tried using sparkloid after racking, let set for two days, rack again add sparkloid again for a couple of days and rack again. No noticable difference after second treatment. No problems with final product, never have any cloudy spirits. Just trying to get the best final product that I can possibly get.
I'm just puzzled how they get wash clear as tap water."
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Depending on what your base is, you can get varying colors. What you are looking for is clear, not necessarily colorless. Even white sugar will give a green, pink, or yellow hue to the wash.
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yeah, thats what I get a green yellowish tint. But it is clear just tinted. Often had doubts about those clear as tap water post.
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After fermenting for close to two weeks (15lbs sugar and the Turbo 48) and adding both a 2 part clarifier for 3 days and sparkloid for a day, my wash looks clean, and even clear in very small amounts, but it's still an opaque white when I pour it into a beaker for testing. It sounds like this may be ok afterall. Is that actually all I should be looking for? Thanks.
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To expand on what Badaman asked about giving the wash a "pre-treatment", if you will, thru a carbon filter, would that not inturn help to produce less higher alcohol's and other unwanted's during distillation and in return creating a more desirable head that one may want to keep? I only ask because I hate wasting anything at all, even if it's just a realitvly small amount.
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"Running an un-stripped wash is more likely to quickly foul your carbon than make you any reasonable gains. It took me a long time to figure out that trying to run 16-20L of clear 50% for cleaning was likely too much for the volume of carbon I had.
If you have colors and perhaps odd organics producing this color, stripping the wash will leave them (or most of them) behind. Then the carbon can be more effective in holding the undesirable yet more volatile compounds as the work it has to do has been reduced by the still."
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