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Yellow Botanical Gin
Hello,
Hoping to get some advice as I have recently run the new 4" Still but the botanical Gin colour is very yellow.
So some details.
Its a 55 L Keg Boiler, with 5 x 4Inch bubble Plates then to 3 inch copper deflagmater, two 90degree elbow down to the Gin Basket that sitting above second condenser.
Sorry first attempt at Gin, I think I may have placed botanical after column and maybe that why its colour is yellowish ?
Do I need to re-distill ? through it away start again, change where I place botanical ?
Any thoughts or ideas ?
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12 Replies
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Mate the first thing does sound like a puke :puke-huge:
Where the wash has come thru, now if you can show us a pic of your setup where they do say a thousand words is one pic :laughing-rolling:
This will go along way to sorting out you’re problem :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Cheers Bryan
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See attached setup, as a side note the wash was already cut (T500 about 4 runs of wash fist, so started with 94% ABV ) and at 25% ABV, it was Sugar wash and cut with distilled water, the plates look super clean.
This was a first run, but had full strip down polish and sanitised with StarSAN like I have with previous stills.
Can not uploud any video MOV or MP4 either ? what can we use ?
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https://filebin.net/va4orglao4xhrco0
I used that does it work, is video of still running ?
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See colour
Id be happy if I was making GalianoYou do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.Last edited by Battlesloth on Wed Oct 30, 2024 8:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Yes, aware hose was wrong way around in picture was taken before started and switched cold to bottom before started run.You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
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Still Shot without Basket, sorry not sure if video worked or not
This was prebuild to make sure all there, before clean and sanitised.You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
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P.S whats best to polish copper ?
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I am waiting for either the Offset Gin Thumper or Carter Head for final Product but waiting to arrive think have jumped the gun.
Also waiting for 5th Bubble plate and the 6th will be 4 Inch for a inline Gin basket too before the first condenser
this run its was coming out at 90-92 ABV, smells spectacular like Juniper too when cut down to 40%…Last edited by Battlesloth on Wed Oct 30, 2024 8:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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If you used a clean neutral base (i.e not a wash) and put the botanicals on the product condenser side of the still as I think your picture suggests, it could be one of 2 things. Either The still was not fully clean, OR, because of where you had the botanicals, you have chlorophyll and other heavier oils in your product. It’s usual when doing vapour infusion to have the botanicals on the boiler side of the still so that things like chlorophyll and the heavier oils drop back into the boiler and only the lighter aromatic flavour oils carry over in the vapour. Unless you;re running a carter head in which case it has a reservoir that catches those heavier components leaving the lighter ones to carry over in the vapour.
Did you do a sacrificial run on that still? If you did and you are confident that the still was clean and free from manufacturing oils, cleaning agents, solvents etc, then you can probably rerun this through a pot still to clean it up.
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Yeah will place this aside for now, will do a normal run and use ti t to do a cut next week and then relook and possibly will re-run, I did soak everything in starsan sanitiser too and scrubbed and let soak for 4 hours.
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I reckon Prof Green has nailed it with basket placement. Vapour needs to be travelling up through the basket, so heavier products fall back, not down through the basket where heavier products will run straight into your final product.
Also agree that a pot still run will clear it up, but you may lose a bit of flavour.
Have fun & stay safe.
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Botanicals in the wrong place for sure .
They need to be in the vapor path not in the downward almost liquid path
Any oils that come out are falling down into the collection vessel not back to the boiler
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