AnselAdams
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When you, oh let's say you are mixing up a batch of mash, you got your corn, sugar and malaise.
You let that sit for a week, 10 days or so.
During that time it begins to burp and fart CO2 as the sugar consumes the corn and produces a plethora of alcohol's and ketones.
You filter that off, pour into your distillation vessels, attach a condenser and start the process of separating the good alcohol (ethanol) from all of the bad ones.
During the distilling process, as liquid heats up a flow of liquids and gas begin to come over to your collection vessel.
If you are expecting say 2 gallons of product you would let approx. A qourt to collect then replace this vessel wit a new larger one and this will be the beginning of the "good" product and then towards the end, "tails" you again replace your vessel with a smaller one to catch the end products.
The heads and tails are no good, but I do use them for solvents.
I hope this makes since.
Oh , and as for the ethanol, we use it for extractions and tincture etc.
dudes like popcorn are why i love america !!!
I've got 5 oz. of lower bud. I need to do something with it.
glad to see your progress! how long was your wash time? i did a 3 min with a stir and it made my mix foamy so to speak. i feel like shorter washes would help with color, have you smoked any yet?
Ready for the next run... Still experimenting....
I have placed a special order for a half pound of quality tops that should be ready in a week or two. In the meantime I am going to do another run (or two) while I wait.
Can't decide which i want to drop in the freezer. Also since i now have both Methanol and 99.5 Alcohol i may do equivalent weight washes and see what the differences are. The only fair way to do that would be to use the same envelope for both runs. Now I have to decide which.
I will drop all three into the chest freezer this morning along with the Alcohol, until i decide tomorrow evening (hopefully with your help)
As always, thanks for your help fellow Farmers..
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