thank you so much for your videos they’re helpful can you please make a video showing how you pack it with the sightglass or is it the same as how you packed it in that one video you made on setting up the reflux ? Thank you for your videos !!!!! 🤪
Nice channel, I subscribed. One comment if I may, a fractional distillation is not simple. Waiting the solution components to be separated-distilled based to their "boiling point" from lowest to highest is utopic. Components don't separate-distill when boil but when evaporate. Totally different thing. Accuracy and proper use of terminology is needed when comes to distillation matters. Heads, unwanted substances don't contain only acetone, there is also a group of aldehyde, ketone, acids, asteres etc. Also utopic is to try to separate and discard methanol by discarding heads. Methanol is distilled from the first drop until the last, mainly the last. Methanol is a product mainly found to tales, it is a paradox but this is the way it is. Right acetone has a distinct aroma but who can tell the difference of acetone and ethyl acetate? I can't, can you?
@@joew8013 its concentrated in the beginning, as it is more volatile than Ethanol, it boils and evaporates at an earlier time. But just like water and ethanol are bonded together, methanol is bonded with water as well. So it cannot leave completely in the first drops. The most part will, so the remaining amount is "safe", as the amounts are minute. Never pour heads back you wanna avoid all the other crap like acetaldehyde, acetate and so on.
If your not looking to run continuously. You would ditch the heads, would you or could you mix the hearts with the tails to drop the proof. Then water to get it to a n 80 proof drink?
Good video and explanation. Just one question: Is there a reason there is a jar under the parrot, which seems to create a precarious situation for the collection jar? Looking forward to more of your work.Thanks
+ran dom It is only a very small percentage of nasties that still contains a large percentage of ethanol. Most distillers would save this portion and add it back to the boiler with their next run. This allows them to try and recover more of that alcohol.
+DruidicRifleman I typically recommend a dual-purpose reflux still, as it will allow you to run it as either a reflux still or pot still. This gives you the flexibility to make whatever you want!
Awesome video !!! very very informative thank you
Good video plenty of good information there but what wash were you running
great video
thank you so much for your videos they’re helpful can you please make a video showing how you pack it with the sightglass or is it the same as how you packed it in that one video you made on setting up the reflux ? Thank you for your videos !!!!! 🤪
Great teaching video you take the time to show people how to taste smell when they cut when will it rain out thank you so much
Thanks Jeff!
I did not know you got acetone as a fermentation byproduct, that's fascinating!
Nice channel, I subscribed. One comment if I may, a fractional distillation is not simple. Waiting the solution components to be separated-distilled based to their "boiling point" from lowest to highest is utopic. Components don't separate-distill when boil but when evaporate. Totally different thing. Accuracy and proper use of terminology is needed when comes to distillation matters. Heads, unwanted substances don't contain only acetone, there is also a group of aldehyde, ketone, acids, asteres etc. Also utopic is to try to separate and discard methanol by discarding heads. Methanol is distilled from the first drop until the last, mainly the last. Methanol is a product mainly found to tales, it is a paradox but this is the way it is. Right acetone has a distinct aroma but who can tell the difference of acetone and ethyl acetate? I can't, can you?
Nikos Kotsalis so if methanol is through the entire run how do you remove it then?
@@joew8013 its concentrated in the beginning, as it is more volatile than Ethanol, it boils and evaporates at an earlier time. But just like water and ethanol are bonded together, methanol is bonded with water as well. So it cannot leave completely in the first drops. The most part will, so the remaining amount is "safe", as the amounts are minute. Never pour heads back you wanna avoid all the other crap like acetaldehyde, acetate and so on.
Besides, methanol is tasteless and you cannot taste or smell it. Its the other compounds you are picking up on. You may feel methanol as a heartburn.
If your not looking to run continuously. You would ditch the heads, would you or could you mix the hearts with the tails to drop the proof. Then water to get it to a n 80 proof drink?
Or are the tails not drinkable either?
Will the water going through the final condenser first then through the reflux condenser get to warm to give proper reflux action
That's what I was thinking too, I use separate water lines for each condenser otherwise the distillate comes out HOT.
Not clearly understand comment at 1:21 not get ethanol vapor where and why (left in still)?
Hello what is the size of the boiler you're using
Those temps listed by Cory, are they on the boiler or at the top of colum. Thanks for any help, before I pull the plug and give up
Good video and explanation. Just one question: Is there a reason there is a jar under the parrot, which seems to create a precarious situation for the collection jar? Looking forward to more of your work.Thanks
Would have been perfect if you would have mentioned your temperatures throughout the video kind of lost without that
Is that a Liebig condenser at the end and how long is it for that length of column?
Can I use your 8 gallon reflux still on top of a wood stove? Is it flat on bottom like a pan or recessed?
Can I ask what one would do with the ISO propyl portion if it was for beverages
+ran dom It is only a very small percentage of nasties that still contains a large percentage of ethanol. Most distillers would save this portion and add it back to the boiler with their next run. This allows them to try and recover more of that alcohol.
Reflux or pot still for a first timer?
+DruidicRifleman I typically recommend a dual-purpose reflux still, as it will allow you to run it as either a reflux still or pot still. This gives you the flexibility to make whatever you want!
Nice video! Thank you! (psst...the beginning of your video says "reflex" instead of "reflux")
when i run my reflux still do i keep the reflux valve open then shut it to full reflux when the first lot comes off
I dont understand why you move from taking acetone straight to taking hearts. Wouldn't it move from acetone to heads and then to hearts?
You re run your heads?
why are you separating, and carbon filtering, doing all the steps to make it drinkable if your making fuel?
+Henry d'Boar ~ God protects drunks and fuels.
Why do you put heads containing Methanol into the next run, why not just throw it out?
because it still contains mostly ethanol and the next distillation will put the methanol up into the foreshots which will be thrown away.
If you are not drinking it why would you care if it has methanol or not?
*Reflux not REFLEX (opening text)
unfortunately I cant taste it because I only have a distilled fuels permit. what a fucking joke
You're right. He should announce to everyone that he's making illegal moonshine.
Idiot.