I got into this simply to save money, but looking at your videos (I've just gone through your entire beginners guide) has shown me how fun and educational this can be, and it has really made me excited to be embarking on a new hobby. Thank you , George.
What a truly fantastic set of videos for someone, like myself, who knows absolutely nothing about the subject. Boy, I certainly learned a lot. Thank you so much. Brilliant. All the very best to you and yours 👍 👍 👍 🥃
Thanks for leaving that in! I remember watching Bob Ross videos. Watching him paint "Happy little clouds" always made me feel like I should be able to paint too. It turned out that I couldn't paint to save my life, but it was a good feeling watching him. Your videos are the same. I love watching your videos. And they make me feel like I should be able to run "happy little stills".
The Gert distillation guide says to add the alcohol just as the water disappears into charcoal. If you let the water clear the bottom of filter you are allowing air to be introduced into the charcoal. Thank you for your videos!
George, I wish you were my science teacher in high school, I would have paid attention. Thank you for all of your videos, I lighten it up with some Bearded and Board, and some Still It. Please keep doing what you're doing, I love it.
Dr. Moonshine, is not perfect e is just like us, he just knows more. HA! HA! Thank you for being human. Also love it when you use the white board. Thank you again for all your help. Russ
I never thought about the temporary joints from the first videos on filtering. Attempt 1, lots of leakage, "oh well". Attemp 2, I wrapped teflon tape and it holds very well, separates easy and the stuff is cheap enough to not get my nickers bunched. Just my two cents. - Jim
Blind Mike has been with us from the get go and is well respected in this community. I realy enjoy your classes as anyone who seeks knolage would. I went my self from Bio-Engineering to teaching. I love teaching other Scientist. I teach Distillers as an Outlaw..
You do not talk too much. People that say that, are just impatient people that don't want to learn. You remind me of a professor. You're a really good at teaching.
Thanks a bunch George. I have been at distilling for about two years now in Cape Town and always battled with my "fish tank carbon". Now everything is sorted. Must really say, i enjoy each and every video you produce.....Keep up the good work....Cheers, Paul, Cape Town
Thanx for leaving that in cause mistakes happens all the time and we can only learn from them. You are still smarter than us watching love ya. Keep it coming.
Hello George. I'm cuffed to the single malts. I love a true Whisky, wich is nearly perfect when it runs out of the Parrot. I'm no friend of polishing and filtering. A good product has got to be perfect after sleeping three years and one day in a barrel! after all the options this theme includes, we should ask our self, do we wanna have some shiny synthetical spoiled chemistry, or do we love a fine distilled dram? If i need to " polish " it, i've definatly did something wrong in an earlier process! ;) Happy distilling.
Milk out the nose!!! Most people won't admit their mistakes, much less leave them in a TH-cam video. I don't normally laugh at others misfortune, but...Damn! that was funny! Thank you for the laugh. Love you George!
George, I love your videos. You show how life actually goes and the mistakes happen. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has oppsies. Great information. We love you.
This was absolutely brilliant!!!!! I couldn't stop laughing especially when the hot activated charcoal melted the seal.. please please please leave the bloopers in!!! I do have a critique though... Not of you. Of the public school system.. if any of my teachers were as captivating as you.. I'd have a phd at this point.. you could teach me shakespeare and I'd ace it. As always, we (as a community - but especially me) are sincerely thankful for the time you put into this. I honestly didn't know how much work it really was until we started cutting vids and it's insane the amount of takes, re-takes, editing, transferring, uploading, describing etc... You are our yoda good sir :) and the entire community thanks you for doing what you do. Btw... A frustrated George is a hilarious George ;) Screw this I'm calling.. need to know how to ferment yellow snow :P
Once again you have made me a smarter person.....thanks again George for your time and extensive knowledge on the process....I'm soon to be building a filter of your specs and I'm sure I will be pleased once again.....makes sense to me to filter my "neutral spirit" before the french oak soak......I've been coming up with some great bourbons latley and I think this filtering process can make it that much better.... Happy Distilling 😁
George i love your videos and have seen a buch, great info... One question, what is the difference between this and using a regular water filter such as a brita?
George, id like to thank you. Knowing how something (anything) works, allows one to understand how and why things are done they are. And I appreciate the way you put together your videos. Keep it up👍 On a side note, I was once told by a very wise man, "only people who are doing things make mistakes" and thats stuck with me for a long time.
i have been distilling for a hobby and it is really enjoyable i have learned alot from your videos thank you next summer i am gonna try a huckleberry shine so far ive done apple and elderberry and was very good the show moonshiners got me to try it but i had to learn how to do it from you
Awesome video George. One of those 'it only will happen once' things each and every one of us experiences. Consider the fact that you just helped many, many people avoid the same boo-boo. That's called a 'value add' contribution. :) Just keep doing what you're doing. Regardless of where you go and regardless of what venue, there are always going to be those that just need to complain about something (even when it's free). If folks don't like the ads with the 'free' service, they can subscribe to the premium version of TH-cam. In god we trust...all others pay cash.
Awesome content! I’ve been binging on A LOT of your videos as I’m super interested in learning as much as I can. Everything that I’ve consumed is so informative and easily digestible. I think for my first still I’d like to go with the t500 boiler & condenser combo.
Thank you George, I am also blind and appreciate your detailed descriptions. I learned about the sugar wash from you and am using your techniques! Party on🤩
Looking forward for part three... I learned that the carbon is good to filter heads and co, so it shouldn't matter if the spirit is diluted or not. As for the tails - how about using bigger grains to filter that out? and can the carbon affect the taste of the spirit by making it taste like carbon?
deep deep demystifying of the 4shot heads tails compositions. thank you george you are an awesome teacher. sometimes i need to rewind to hear you explain somethings atleast thrice because this info is so advanced.
thank you soo much for these videos coming! Really helpful! One question I have, for instance if you are filtering a gin , isn´t there a loss of aroma and taste when filtering it? Would be cool to hear what you say about this.
Excelente explicación Jorge! Debí poner subtítulos y traductor automático, que no es lo ideal pero me ayuda, ya que soy hipoacúsico. Me armaré un filtro como el tuyo y lo llevaré a la práctica. Saludos desde Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Excellent explanation George! I should have put subtitles and an automatic translator, which is not ideal but it helps me, since I am hard of hearing. I'll put together a filter like yours and put it into practice. Greetings from Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
George , long time fan. First time question. I just finished distilling some rum. What if I was to reuse what’s left over to replace the water in my next batch of sugar shine run. Do you think it would carry over some of the flavors ? Is it worth the trouble. On my rum I run a pot still . From Moon still shining (Roger) hope to here from u soon
LOL love ya George. At first I thought the wax was pure genius, and it may well be but your "accident" (and yes I get it that in trying to rush things you didn't let the "concoction" cool down enough) shows me that here in Australia, where the ambient temperature could easily be 40+C, it may be a problem LOL. Damn it though, it's just such a great idea.
Thanks as always George. Question: Do I loose any alcohol that gets stuck in the carbon chamber? Said another way, when the spirit stops coming out of the bottom do I have all of my spirit or is some trapped in the column? Got in my mind when you mentioned that the water was pushed out by the spirit at the beginning of the process.
Finish with water... It will push the remaining alcohol in the carbon down. Just make sure you taste test it to know when to cut it off. I think he covered this in part 1.
A little off this topic, but before I order a SSR for my heating needs I see different lettering behind SSR 40 DA, SSR 40 DA H, SSR 40 DD, SSR 40 VA, and I think I came across one SSR 40 AA. Could you explain the difference between the last two letters designation? The DA, DD, VA?
DA Is DC voltage to control AC output, DD is DC voltage to control DC voltage and AA is AC voltage to control AC voltage. The VA model is variable to control AC output.
Thank you for your videos and taking time out to share them, but can you please use fahrenheit when discussing temps please. After all this is America and we are not on the metric system.
so instead of adding an extra 50% water after I distill then filter it, I should add that water to filter 1st then add the distilled alcohol before the water finishes running through... does high 60% alcohol content filter as good as 40%
Hi new to the distilling game just got my first pot what is the best way to clean it after using it and is there anything that different I will need to do for its first run thanks
Loyal Subscriber! How about a few wraps of PTFE tape on each inner pipe? Filtering makes sense given that heads will smear throughout the run: they don’t all get left behind in the Heads cut.
Love ya brother....been watching and subscribed for awhile. Most people would not post a fail like that, LOL unless it was for more "LIKES". You are about as real as it gets George! No B.S. When you F up, you show it and maybe save someone from doing the same. I see the talk on some forums, with critique, and "opinions"....but not the as much EFFORT to eduacate, in general. You TRY your best to do the reading/learning and condense it for the average person in the community to understand. Not allways 100% correct but you challenge the people to read the same for themselves to comprehend, corroborate, and if in disagreance to comment in a civil manner. 🖒🖒🖒 Then we all learn!
Absolutely love ya mate, please please can I have the 1st copy of your book! Yes we get bombarded with dam adds but i just switch off from them or make a cuppa! I have a few questions I love to ask you but I’ll do it via email! Great bo bo with the your seal coming a part! Yes shit does happen and I would be the best at it! If there was multiple thumbs up I would definitely give you them! So here my substitute 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
george this information you're sharing is worth more than a university course. i wonder how the distilling schools feel about your open sourcing channel haha. but as a glass and cork fanatic as well as an initiate of the cult of beeswax i wish you had demonstrated making this with your glass column and beeswax, instead of pvc and pariffin wax. i believe you about pvc, but i am much more skeptical of the pariffin. sorry im actually only 8 minutes in, going to finish watching the rest of this awesome video thank you for not waiting to upload it asap i love you
hey george i have noticed that pouring heads and tails(low wines) through a wine aerator seems to have a deodorizing and "accelerated aging" effect to soften out spirits. it's surprising how much low wines seems to soften , imagine simulating months and months maybe years of aging with just a dozen passes through a wine aerator. any idea what's going on ?
George, although ethanol doesn't attack PVC plenty of the other chemicals present in the distillate do and that's not to mention the wax and glue that you are using. Given the whole point of the exercise is to filter out non-ethanol molecules then we are expecting there to be other organic chemicals in there, and yes, a lot of these do degrade PVC. Acetone being a prime example, people might well filter heads and fores without realising. Just look down the list of chemicals that PVC isn't resistant to and you'll notice that a lot of them are the by-products of distillation. It's just not worth the risk especially given how cheap and easy it would be to make this out of stainless steel.
@@trthib72 My thinking is maybe cut it first if the water is not great. Polish water and distillate simultaneously. I use clean and tasty water to cut, so maybe just polish spirit.
My next question is I just made a run of corn liquor and I added a bunch of apples to the corn liquor in sliced form floating in the jar now I've lost all my proof in that also the alcohol proof is zero all the alcohol is in the apples why
I got into this simply to save money, but looking at your videos (I've just gone through your entire beginners guide) has shown me how fun and educational this can be, and it has really made me excited to be embarking on a new hobby. Thank you , George.
I found this extremely interesting and very informative. This is why I am interested in your videos and can only say THANK YOU GEORGE!
Great job George. You certainly are a man of integrity. Still wiping the tears of laughter away. Thanks
Enjoyed this video very much! Thank you. Cheers
Thanks George always a pleasure watching your content even the failures or should I say learning experiences
Always giving us the best possible advice!! Thanks George
Lekker Dag Oom.
What a truly fantastic set of videos for someone, like myself, who knows absolutely nothing about the subject. Boy, I certainly learned a lot.
Thank you so much. Brilliant. All the very best to you and yours 👍 👍 👍 🥃
Thanks for leaving that in! I remember watching Bob Ross videos. Watching him paint "Happy little clouds" always made me feel like I should be able to paint too. It turned out that I couldn't paint to save my life, but it was a good feeling watching him. Your videos are the same. I love watching your videos. And they make me feel like I should be able to run "happy little stills".
The Gert distillation guide says to add the alcohol just as the water disappears into charcoal. If you let the water clear the bottom of filter you are allowing air to be introduced into the charcoal.
Thank you for your videos!
George, I wish you were my science teacher in high school, I would have paid attention. Thank you for all of your videos, I lighten it up with some Bearded and Board, and some Still It.
Please keep doing what you're doing, I love it.
Wow, thanks
Thanks for your hard work and willingness to share your experience! I enjoy your teaching style and learning to fail well is all about learning! ;)
Dr. Moonshine, is not perfect e is just like us, he just knows more. HA! HA! Thank you for being human. Also love it when you use the white board. Thank you again for all your help. Russ
Thank you for being so descriptive when I dont have time to watch I can listen and check in from time to time.
I never thought about the temporary joints from the first videos on filtering. Attempt 1, lots of leakage, "oh well". Attemp 2, I wrapped teflon tape and it holds very well, separates easy and the stuff is cheap enough to not get my nickers bunched. Just my two cents. - Jim
Thank you for all your efforts with this channel. I’m new to the hobby and your channel helps streamline the processes.
Glad you left hat in, it shows even experts like the you make mistakes. Thank you for these videos, you're the BEST! Jayman...
My pleasure!
Blind Mike has been with us from the get go and is well respected in this community. I realy enjoy your classes as anyone who seeks knolage would. I went my self from Bio-Engineering to teaching. I love teaching other Scientist. I teach Distillers as an Outlaw..
Great Videos, Thanks for the teaching 😇
George you are great you been great for me (Scotland) you take care thank you .
I'm happy you are back George!
You do not talk too much. People that say that, are just impatient people that don't want to learn. You remind me of a professor. You're a really good at teaching.
Thanks a bunch George. I have been at distilling for about two years now in Cape Town and always battled with my "fish tank carbon". Now everything is sorted. Must really say, i enjoy each and every video you produce.....Keep up the good work....Cheers, Paul, Cape Town
Thanx for leaving that in cause mistakes happens all the time and we can only learn from them. You are still smarter than us watching love ya. Keep it coming.
Hello George. I'm cuffed to the single malts. I love a true Whisky, wich is nearly perfect when it runs out of the Parrot. I'm no friend of polishing and filtering. A good product has got to be perfect after sleeping three years and one day in a barrel! after all the options this theme includes, we should ask our self, do we wanna have some shiny synthetical spoiled chemistry, or do we love a fine distilled dram? If i need to " polish " it, i've definatly did something wrong in an earlier process! ;) Happy distilling.
George awesome input. You being honest and your right $hit happens. Glad you didn’t edit it out. Keep it real and I’ll keep watching.
Milk out the nose!!! Most people won't admit their mistakes, much less leave them in a TH-cam video. I don't normally laugh at others misfortune, but...Damn! that was funny! Thank you for the laugh. Love you George!
Couldn't agree more
Very nice tutorial on a molecular level. I always wondered what is really in the head/tails etc. thank you for the great educational video.
You don't talk to much- we come here to see and hear you, you do such awesome work and have helped me SOOO much
You explain things perfectly i love your work barley and hops brewing thank you
George, I love your videos. You show how life actually goes and the mistakes happen. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has oppsies.
Great information. We love you.
I wanted to say how much I appreciate your videos! It's been a real pleasure and super helpful!
This was absolutely brilliant!!!!! I couldn't stop laughing especially when the hot activated charcoal melted the seal.. please please please leave the bloopers in!!! I do have a critique though...
Not of you.
Of the public school system.. if any of my teachers were as captivating as you.. I'd have a phd at this point.. you could teach me shakespeare and I'd ace it.
As always, we (as a community - but especially me) are sincerely thankful for the time you put into this. I honestly didn't know how much work it really was until we started cutting vids and it's insane the amount of takes, re-takes, editing, transferring, uploading, describing etc...
You are our yoda good sir :) and the entire community thanks you for doing what you do.
Btw... A frustrated George is a hilarious George ;)
Screw this I'm calling.. need to know how to ferment yellow snow :P
I enjoyed watching you run a steal and learning about it. Thank you I cannot find where to subscribe to your channel.
Once again you have made me a smarter person.....thanks again George for your time and extensive knowledge on the process....I'm soon to be building a filter of your specs and I'm sure I will be pleased once again.....makes sense to me to filter my "neutral spirit" before the french oak soak......I've been coming up with some great bourbons latley and I think this filtering process can make it that much better.... Happy Distilling 😁
I'm a new subscriber I'm from Alberta Canada and I'm visually impaired, grate hob on the videos!
George i love your videos and have seen a buch, great info... One question, what is the difference between this and using a regular water filter such as a brita?
George, id like to thank you. Knowing how something (anything) works, allows one to understand how and why things are done they are.
And I appreciate the way you put together your videos. Keep it up👍
On a side note, I was once told by a very wise man, "only people who are doing things make mistakes" and thats stuck with me for a long time.
Absolutely true! As a young man, I was fortunate enough to have a boss, who imparted such wisdom upon me.
i have been distilling for a hobby and it is really enjoyable i have learned alot from your videos thank you next summer i am gonna try a huckleberry shine so far ive done apple and elderberry and was very good the show moonshiners got me to try it but i had to learn how to do it from you
Awesome video George. One of those 'it only will happen once' things each and every one of us experiences. Consider the fact that you just helped many, many people avoid the same boo-boo. That's called a 'value add' contribution. :) Just keep doing what you're doing. Regardless of where you go and regardless of what venue, there are always going to be those that just need to complain about something (even when it's free). If folks don't like the ads with the 'free' service, they can subscribe to the premium version of TH-cam. In god we trust...all others pay cash.
You cant argue with physics ..or chemistry. Thank you for the lesson and the chuckle
Love the video . Don't think you talk near as much as stillit but watch you both. Thanks for taking your time to educate the rest of us.
Awesome content! I’ve been binging on A LOT of your videos as I’m super interested in learning as much as I can. Everything that I’ve consumed is so informative and easily digestible. I think for my first still I’d like to go with the t500 boiler & condenser combo.
Ty gorge I love the show and ty again for the knowledge that you share
How about I run the column in upflow that should take care of the air and dilution?
Thank you so much George bloody marvelous!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you George, I am also blind and appreciate your detailed descriptions. I learned about the sugar wash from you and am using your techniques! Party on🤩
🤣🤣🤣...when it came apart I said out loud " AHH SHIT!!!!... DAMN IT" As if it happened to me.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Enjoy your video’s George learn a great deal from your podcasts you were very calm when it came apart very impressed I would have been upset
Looking forward for part three... I learned that the carbon is good to filter heads and co, so it shouldn't matter if the spirit is diluted or not. As for the tails - how about using bigger grains to filter that out? and can the carbon affect the taste of the spirit by making it taste like carbon?
Could you use something like a Britas water filter George? and put your spirit through instead of water? these contain activated carbon filters
deep deep demystifying of the 4shot heads tails compositions. thank you george you are an awesome teacher. sometimes i need to rewind to hear you explain somethings atleast thrice because this info is so advanced.
No problem, skip ad lol. Thank you for the research and video!!
thank you soo much for these videos coming! Really helpful! One question I have, for instance if you are filtering a gin , isn´t there a loss of aroma and taste when filtering it? Would be cool to hear what you say about this.
Excelente explicación Jorge! Debí poner subtítulos y traductor automático, que no es lo ideal pero me ayuda, ya que soy hipoacúsico. Me armaré un filtro como el tuyo y lo llevaré a la práctica.
Saludos desde Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Excellent explanation George! I should have put subtitles and an automatic translator, which is not ideal but it helps me, since I am hard of hearing. I'll put together a filter like yours and put it into practice.
Greetings from Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Made my weekend George!!! Yes, shit happens!!! Let's fix it, it comes with the distillers job description!!!!
When pipe dropped I just had to give you a thumbs up!
George , long time fan. First time question. I just finished distilling some rum. What if I was to reuse what’s left over to replace the water in my next batch of sugar shine run. Do you think it would carry over some of the flavors ? Is it worth the trouble. On my rum I run a pot still . From Moon still shining (Roger) hope to here from u soon
I've been looking for activated carbon stone 20/50 mesh on Amazon and can only find fish aquarium carbon stones can they be used ?
Sorry if already mentioned but what about just airing vodka if tpw? Works fine for me...
Love the new comedy theme! Damn that was funny!
LOL love ya George. At first I thought the wax was pure genius, and it may well be but your "accident" (and yes I get it that in trying to rush things you didn't let the "concoction" cool down enough) shows me that here in Australia, where the ambient temperature could easily be 40+C, it may be a problem LOL. Damn it though, it's just such a great idea.
Is it bad to slowly mix the wash while you’re distilling with like a magnetic impeller
Thank you for helping me grow in this hobby.
Thanks as always George. Question: Do I loose any alcohol that gets stuck in the carbon chamber? Said another way, when the spirit stops coming out of the bottom do I have all of my spirit or is some trapped in the column? Got in my mind when you mentioned that the water was pushed out by the spirit at the beginning of the process.
Finish with water... It will push the remaining alcohol in the carbon down. Just make sure you taste test it to know when to cut it off. I think he covered this in part 1.
Wish there was an index to your videos. Don’t know my heads and tails… I’m hooked on these binging.
A little off this topic, but before I order a SSR for my heating needs I see different lettering behind SSR 40 DA, SSR 40 DA H, SSR 40 DD, SSR 40 VA, and I think I came across one SSR 40 AA. Could you explain the difference between the last two letters designation? The DA, DD, VA?
DA Is DC voltage to control AC output, DD is DC voltage to control DC voltage and AA is AC voltage to control AC voltage. The VA model is variable to control AC output.
Thank you for your videos and taking time out to share them, but can you please use fahrenheit when discussing temps please. After all this is America and we are not on the metric system.
What about threaded PVC it is a let more, but you can take apart and clean with out having to depend on wax with hot water.....
so instead of adding an extra 50% water after I distill then filter it, I should add that water to filter 1st then add the distilled alcohol before the water finishes running through... does high 60% alcohol content filter as good as 40%
Can you use aquarium charcoal to filter water for your mash/wash main base?!
Hi new to the distilling game just got my first pot what is the best way to clean it after using it and is there anything that different I will need to do for its first run thanks
Thank you George!
George you are man! Love your stuff
"Holy SHIT" .....ahahahah .... amazing. Sometimes it happens even to the best .
Loyal Subscriber! How about a few wraps of PTFE tape on each inner pipe? Filtering makes sense given that heads will smear throughout the run: they don’t all get left behind in the Heads cut.
As always Thanks George
Tell me who is playing the Harp, please.?????
Love ya brother....been watching and subscribed for awhile. Most people would not post a fail like that, LOL unless it was for more "LIKES". You are about as real as it gets George! No B.S.
When you F up, you show it and maybe save someone from doing the same.
I see the talk on some forums, with critique, and "opinions"....but not the as much EFFORT to eduacate, in general. You TRY your best to do the reading/learning and condense it for the average person in the community to understand.
Not allways 100% correct but you challenge the people to read the same for themselves to comprehend, corroborate, and if in disagreance to comment in a civil manner. 🖒🖒🖒 Then we all learn!
Absolutely love ya mate, please please can I have the 1st copy of your book! Yes we get bombarded with dam adds but i just switch off from them or make a cuppa!
I have a few questions I love to ask you but I’ll do it via email! Great bo bo with the your seal coming a part! Yes shit does happen and I would be the best at it! If there was multiple thumbs up I would definitely give you them! So here my substitute 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
All I can say is the 3 people that disliked this video, must still be trying to ferment their grass clippings!
As always George, thanks for being you!
Thanks 👍
Hey George, I'm doing a sugar wash using raw cane sugar, will this make more methanol than a sugar wash with normal sugar?
george this information you're sharing is worth more than a university course. i wonder how the distilling schools feel about your open sourcing channel haha. but as a glass and cork fanatic as well as an initiate of the cult of beeswax i wish you had demonstrated making this with your glass column and beeswax, instead of pvc and pariffin wax. i believe you about pvc, but i am much more skeptical of the pariffin. sorry im actually only 8 minutes in, going to finish watching the rest of this awesome video thank you for not waiting to upload it asap i love you
if you get the brave browser, it blocks all the adds.....dose for me here in OZ
How is playing the Harp ? Wow this is impressive too.
Dang George ! It looks like you have as much bad luck as I do , I appreciate and enjoy all of the videos you do , many thanks .
Nice to see an oversight 😁
That's life as a wacky professor experimenting with shizzle!
hey george i have noticed that pouring heads and tails(low wines) through a wine aerator seems to have a deodorizing and "accelerated aging" effect to soften out spirits. it's surprising how much low wines seems to soften , imagine simulating months and months maybe years of aging with just a dozen passes through a wine aerator. any idea what's going on ?
If its gonna happen it will happen. The candle wax in those can be a bit melty at body temp so even the slightest warmth will do it
You know sometimes s--t just happens we should learn from it and move on.
George, although ethanol doesn't attack PVC plenty of the other chemicals present in the distillate do and that's not to mention the wax and glue that you are using. Given the whole point of the exercise is to filter out non-ethanol molecules then we are expecting there to be other organic chemicals in there, and yes, a lot of these do degrade PVC. Acetone being a prime example, people might well filter heads and fores without realising. Just look down the list of chemicals that PVC isn't resistant to and you'll notice that a lot of them are the by-products of distillation. It's just not worth the risk especially given how cheap and easy it would be to make this out of stainless steel.
Love your channel! Should you polish high proof or blend with water and then polish?
George says to run it high proof, The Milehigh description of the carbon says to cut it first. My takeaway... It doesn't really matter.
@@trthib72 My thinking is maybe cut it first if the water is not great. Polish water and distillate simultaneously. I use clean and tasty water to cut, so maybe just polish spirit.
Hi, I passed 55% alcohol through the carbon column according to your instructions and the result was 40% alcohol. What is the reason?
Thanks george
Thank you Sir!!
I'm glad you left in the miss hap. Looks like something I might do.
Nothing like a hands on demo.
And the wax seal lends itself to a bunch of other uses.
Super helpful. Sam Malone.
+1 on the ad comment. It is a plague.
My next question is I just made a run of corn liquor and I added a bunch of apples to the corn liquor in sliced form floating in the jar now I've lost all my proof in that also the alcohol proof is zero all the alcohol is in the apples why
Hello Sir. I have a question. How many times you can use the same activated carbon?
3 max... I think he goes over that in his part 1.
He's answer your question in part 1
I apologize for how hard I laughed at that..but damnit I learned somethin!! 😂🤘🏼