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  Botanical Basket T500 Saddles Bit Confused

  Posted by Fincheeei1 on January 1, 2025 at 2:55 am

  I just bought a Botanical basket for my T500 and I’m a bit confused about the saddles. Ive removed the Stainless steel saddle and placed the Botanical Basket in its place. It’s just the wording saddles , implying there are more then one ? !! Anyone ? !!!! I can only see the one that needs removing ,

  Reefer1 replied 2 weeks, 2 days ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Saltbush Bill

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  January 1, 2025 at 4:23 am

  The saddles I have seen in a t500 are small and the column is full of them.For the record you don’t need a gin basket to make good gin.Learn to make a quality neutral first, then just add the neutral along with desired botanicals back to the boiler.You can make or buy a small pot still head to run on the t500 boiler for that part of the process.Your other post identical to this has been removed. No need to ask twice.

  
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  Fincheeei1

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  January 1, 2025 at 6:21 am

  Thanks for clarifying that. After carefully reading the instructions I found that the alembic dome just has the one saddle unless I’m mistaken.Ive started by making a half decent neutral and I’m attempting a type of absinthe which I’ll post at a later stage. Apologies for the double post . . . . . .

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  Yummyrum

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  January 1, 2025 at 10:11 am

  Ummm T500 used to always be a reflux still …. With saddles in the column as packing . Then in the last few years , they bought out a fancy copper lid for the T500 boiler and called it the Alambic dome . It was a Pot still not a reflux still . It can cause a bit of confusion . I am curious where in that alembic still , where are you ment yo insert a single saddle My recommended goto .wiki/index.ph … ion_Theory

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  Saltbush Bill

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  January 1, 2025 at 10:41 am

  Making a half decent neutral won’t be easy using a pot still.An Alembic is only a type of pot, it just sounds fancier.

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  Yummyrum

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  January 1, 2025 at 11:22 am

  Making a half decent neutral won’t be easy using a pot still.An Alembic is only a type of pot, it just sounds fancier.That was my thinking too Salty . Alembic Pot stills a great for stripping a wash . but then , if you want to make a neutral , you need to run the stripped wash through the old school T500 reflux still or the likes . Can’t make a Neutral with a Pot still .My recommended goto .wiki/index.ph … ion_Theory

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  Reefer1

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  January 1, 2025 at 11:53 am

  Fincheeei1I started out with aT500, when i figured it out done some runs and got comfotable ballacing the temperature and so on, got a good neutral wash recipe and got a half decent neutral spirit, that’s when i thought about making gin, i ended up buying a airstill basically because you can make a bottle at a time if it turns out unpalattable not so much to drink or redistill they are a great experimenting tool, your dome will work good with the gin basket, just be aware you may need to get a power controller for the boiler otherwise it will run a bit too fast.Have a great NY

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