![]() ![]() It takes close to twenty distillations cycles to make perfect tasteless alcohol. Without reflux you are getting one distillation cycle maybe two from a pot still. Why cant you make neutral with a pot still? Well you can, with a really clean wash and if you are willing to run it ten times. After dilution, It is run again with the same procedure. Run carefully through a pot still, fores are discarded, heads are taken, hearts are taken and only very deep tails avoided. OR magically appear! Lets look at a grain ferment. When distilling, Fractions do not magically disappear. Okay, now that you are on board there and understand that your wash has different components lets talk about distilling. Again, different ferments will have different fractions in varying amounts. Fore shots, Heads, Hearts and tails all contain a variety of different alcohols, fusels and the different flavor congeners that hide among them. IE Turbo etc.Īll these different parts we call Fractions. There is plenty good reason you get crap when pushing your wash SG.(from us and from your still) Higher gravity ferments and the nutrients necessary for them create more crap than a lower gravity wash. You wont get whiskey from a tomato paste wash or turbo yeast in a pot still. WHAT is in your wash is what you get! Period. Most but not all flavor congeners are located in the fusels. (Heads) All washes contain most alcohols in varying percentages. Some washes contain more lower boiling point alcohols. Some washes have greater amounts fusels, ie Rum, Whiskeys etc. ![]() Some washes contain higher amounts of nasties. Starting with your wash, what ever you ferment has particular characteristics. ![]() With the risk of stepping on some “traditional toes” I will explain why I can make better whiskey with a fractioning column than a pot still. It is a myth that you must use a pot still to make whiskey or good whiskey. You can not make whiskey from tomato paste but you can make neutral from grain. AKA Why you can make whiskey in a reflux column but cant make make neutral in a pot still. ![]()
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