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  Distilling the challenging spirit of TPW

  Posted by Peteren1 on April 16, 2024 at 2:39 am

  I have several liters of TPW spirit that I don’t really like the taste of.
  Can I blend it into my next grain wash distillation without ruining the grain wash result?

  SBB replied 9 months ago 6 Members · 11 Replies
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  The Stig

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  April 16, 2024 at 3:17 am

  I wouldn’t because you will dilute the grain unless of course the grain is going to be made into neutral

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  Peteren1

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  April 16, 2024 at 3:48 am

  Yes it is, so maybe add it in small amounts over several wash distillations?

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  RuddyCrazy

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  April 16, 2024 at 5:07 am

  Just dilute the TPW to 40% and use it to add on future runs :handgestures-thumbupleft: this way you will be bumping up the ABV of the wash your running and give you a much better yield :handgestures-thumbupleft:

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  Peteren1

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  April 16, 2024 at 6:15 am

  So not adding 700mls of 90+ to 20L of wash at distillation, will that effect the wash?

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  Peteren1

  Member

  April 17, 2024 at 3:00 am

  Its 5 L of 40%
  Just running it through carbon atm to see if it improves, failing that and from the comments so far I think I will blend it 500-700ml at a time to the next distillation runs.
  Cheers all for the help

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  Puk

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  April 17, 2024 at 6:02 am

  Is it really necessary to dilute it to 40% first? Just throw in enough of it at 90% to keep the final abv that you are going to run (this + wash at 10-15%) under 40%.

  I don’t see the point of adding more water.

  Unless by "several litres" of this product you mean 10 or more, I would just throw it in with your next neutral wash. It isn’t going to take a 10% wash over 40%.

  PukLast edited by Puk on Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:05 am, edited 1 time in total.

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  The Stig

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  April 17, 2024 at 6:22 am

  Your not putting it in the mash , your adding it to the boiler charge.
  And Puk is correct , just add enough so that the charge in the boiler is under 40% so this will depend on how much you have (may need to be used up over a couple of runs ( boiler charges)
  Or you could just rerun the entire thing by itself by diluting to below 40% and just run it again and see if the taste changes for the better

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  cjhero

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  April 27, 2024 at 7:47 am

  How did the carbon filtering go?

  I’ve got a bunch of vodka from when I was first starting out and is a bit rough. I’ve been thinking about grabbing a bunch of activated carbon to filter it.

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  The Stig

  Member

  April 27, 2024 at 10:21 am

  Just redistill it , much better result than trying to filter

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  cjhero

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  April 28, 2024 at 4:46 am

  Thanks Stig, I’ll do that.

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  SBB

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  May 4, 2024 at 9:18 am

  Cut the boiler charge to 28% -30 % ….water is a great filter……gives the tails a place to hide.

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