Re: Any Ideas on a gravity feed still

billstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Say your pot still or reflux is smaller only a 10 gal or so and you have say
>55gal you want to distill, is there a  good way to gravity feed the boiler
>as to do it all in one run?

Not really, because you constantly have stuff going into the boiler and
coming out of the boiler, and if you are relying on throwing out the heads
and tails to eliminate lighter and heavier fractions, you've just lost that
ability.

With a column still where you're selecting only a much narrower fraction,
you can do continuous distillation.  Of course, then you wind up with
stuff that has no taste at all.

This is why grain neutral spirits is so much cheaper than real whiskey,
and why a lot of commercial whiskeys get diluted down with neutral spirits.
Making neutral spirits on a continuously fed column still is fairly
cheap and easy to do compared with making something that tastes good.
--scott

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