Spirit pass of a "sugarhead" whisky with a single thumper.
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- G'day guys, been a while since I posted anything - 2020 has turned out to be a turd-burger both financially and mentally. Will hopefully start posting some more vids as I dig my way out of the hole.
This is a spirit pass I did on a rough sugar-head whisky fermented off the grain bed remains of both corn and barley mashes.
Shows why I love thumpers, not that efficient energy-wise maybe, but they do a beautiful job of separating out cuts whilst retaining flavor.
Awesome clip, glad to see new content. Thank you for sharing 👍
You're welcome Tom.
Things been a bit rough lately, just getting back into the craft and making the hooch.
Got a few more vids from early in the year to finish editing yet.
Happy Distilling!
Love your videos, brother! Keep 'em coming:-)
Hey Bearded! Thanks.
Yeah, getting back on the horse. 😊
Happy Distilling Brother.
@@AngryParrotDistillery Your horse is huge, made of steel and requires long hours. I don't blame you taking a break, LoL:-)
good work grant love the craft
Hey thanks! 😊
I love doing it, ... becomes an addiction.
Happy Distilling!
The water heater boiler looks great finished btw .. keep up the good works ...and 2020 has us all by the short and curly's..
Thanks Random.
Got plans for biggerin' but torn between which way to go ...
Big pot-still or continuous stripper, ...
Practically it's gonna have to be the cheapest option first that I can cobble together out of whatever is laying around .... same ol' same ol'. 🤣
Happy Distilling!
@@AngryParrotDistillery didnt you have a 6" column you were workin on for that? ..ofcourse cash is king if someone wanted it more ..I love your rambling dialog ..dont edit it out ..
@@somerandomguy32
Still have the 6" jobbie on the drawing board, been second guessing myself as to how to go about it.
Will just have to $h!t or get off the pot and make a start soon! 😊
Happy Distilling!
I'm glad to see you putting out more videos is been awhile, Love your craftsmen ship!..⚗🍻
Thanks Corey, glad you enjoy them.
It's an addiction ... I think meth' or opiates would have been cheaper! 🤣
Happy Distilling!
Lol!.Yeah I hear ya brother! It's definitely not a cheap Hobby that's a fact!. I watched your keg still build a few years ago and thought to myself all that should be fairly cheap to build I even built the shotgun condenser and the deflag just as you did in the your video, I never would have imagined I have what I do in it but I totally just love this thing it came out super nice and it's (Still) cheaper then buying new And I just keep adding to it Thumper gin basket PID I definitely thank you for some of your inspiration in The Craft!.🍻🥃
You had great compression with that run at 80% to 85%.
I often thought about adding ball valve return from the thumper to a trap and then into the boiler (high above liquid level).
That way it provides an overflow and/or a relief dump if you have to shut down and startup again later. Then you can dump excess and leave only 8-12 liters (2 to 3 gallons US) in the thump. (Depending on valve height placement in thumper)
Would love to see two retorts on your rum run. Your setup is impressive.
Cheers APD!
Heya big Ed!
Had an overflow tap on this single thumper setup.
Was able to manually drain back to the kettle when I "guesstimated" the thumper was getting full, I really need some kind of sight-level to be able to eyeball it.
An automated draining setup like you described would be "the bomb" and would definitely put the whole thing on rails.
Something to look at down the track, I'm currently getting my head around continuous distillation and fractionating columns - will have to be some videos out of that mess. 🤣
Happy Distilling!
Your distilling knowledge far surpasses mine, but I have to say, I have found I can save myself a whole lot of time when running my moonshine still by whacking a butane campstove burner under my thumpkeg and getting it close to temp once the boiler has gotten within range, rather than waiting for the steam from the boiler to heat up the mash in the thump. Saves me a good couple of hours...! Just thought I'd mention it.
Heya Chris, yep agree.
I've ended up putting element mounts in the thumpers for that reason - can slowly bring them up to temp and cut them loose just short of the point where the vapor from the kettle starts doing its job.
However, some of the time I just put a little less in the thumpers and don't bother with the preheat - thumpers come up to temp real quick under that scenario.
My knowledge ain't that great - I'm still learning everyday.
Happy Distilling!
@@AngryParrotDistillery yeah, i hear you about lesser amounts in the thump, but i recently accidentally overfilled my thump and ran it without realizing what i had done... the boiler struggled to keep it up to temp and i ended up with a higher yield, but it took a couple of hours longer... it's an art to find the right balance!
@@m0parnut
Oh shit! I was worried about thumpers overfilling while running to the point I ended up putting sight tubes down the sides of both mine just so I can check where they are at during a run and drain them back into the kettle if needs be.
The very first one I ever made was great, put out good product and was easy to clean but a little undersized.
I cracked open at the end of one run to find it almost completely fill - ulp.
Has worried me ever since.
Happy Distilling!
Great video as always! thanks for the hot water cylinder idea, I used a low pressure copper cylinder for my new still.
G'day Jacob.
Thanks! Yep those HWC's are great.
I have a few coppers floating around but found the stainless ones needed a lot less clean up/ prepping prior to fabrication and were real easy to clean after a run.
Either way they are a great solution.
How was the inside of your copper when you first got it and how did you clean it out?
Happy Distilling!
@@AngryParrotDistillery , it was fairly clean. I lopped the bottom off and gave it a good scrub with vinegar before putting it back together 100mm shorter. I just been running it on an lpg burner, maybe I will convert back to electric in summer when I can get some good solar generation going.
My setup is almost identical to yours , mines a 60 and use a keg as a thump which runs thru 30ft of 3/4 worm thats in a 50gal barrel, i might say the 50 i use for worm never gets hot other than the top 12-15in, below the thermocline its still cool, i never have to add or circulate water in worm even thru a 20+ hr run, no cooling issues at all
Stocking up for Christmas mate
Hell yeah!!! 👍
Merry Christmas and Happy Distilling!
Enjoying your videos. Thank you. Trying to find digital potentiometers similar to those in your power management set-up. Would you mind sharing your source/make/model please. I'd like to move away from rotary potentiometers to something more digital. Cheers.
Heya Glenn,
Ebay / Alibaba. Do a search for "10kW SCR controller" and they'll pop up.
The digital inputs are part of the SCR controller itself.
Happy Distilling!
Thank you for your steer to where to purchase. Happy distilling.
@@glennjones9067
You're welcome fella.
Those 10kW SCR's are great for still controllers and only around 10 bucks.
Happy Distilling!
Great set up you've made there Sir, good ole' kiwi i n g e n u i t y.. Looking forward to more of your informative vids. Chur bro.
Thanks Garry, big fan of number-8 wire mentality ... don't have any choice really lol.
Got a few more bits and pieces sitting on the computer I need to finish editing and upload.
Happy Distilling!
Sorry missed the vid earlier. Been crazy here in Kenosha last few days. Hope everything's going well.
Heya Kev'!
Hope you and yours are all good.
Dragging my ass out of a hole at the moment.
Lost a whole bunch of work during the covid lockdown - companies just retrenching and people holding onto dispoable income.
Workshop completely flooded during a storm, landlord had been deferring maintainance on the building, ... fair bit of gear ruined including TIG welder.
Starting to recover and get back up to speed tho', enthusiam coming back, was completely gutted for quite a while.
Happy Distilling!
@@AngryParrotDistillery wow, sorry to hear about the flooding. Yep we're still dealing with the covid. Big sham if you ask me. If you need anything and I have it let me know. May be slow boat from here. But no biggy.
@@Samandcocoa
Hey Thanks for that Kev', very generous of you but should be ok thanks.
May be able to wrangle something and squeak my TIG welder thru' under extended service warranty. Woohoo!
Straightening things out slowly.
Agree, politicians seem to be making a bloody meal out of covid and using it to justify all sorts of draconian shit when it suits them whilst ignoring the blindingly obvious when it doesn't.
@@AngryParrotDistillery anytime. X-mas is coming u k ow
Those stainless spirals you use to keep the coffee filter away from the side of the funnel is pretty cool.
Are they something that you bought or made?
It seems to do a wonderful job of keeping the liquid moving through the filter.💪👍🥃
Good stuff.
Best wishes.😊
G'day fella,
Made, they're lengths of stainless steel TIG welding filler rod, I just bend them into those chevron type zig-zigs and bend them in the middle so they sit nicely in the funnel.
Without them the filters just sit flat against the sides of the funnel and only the tip really drains - defeats the purpose of a big filter.
Happy Distilling!
hi Angry Parrot, the size of the pipe going into and out of your thumper, the flow rate looks good. And how do you compare the taste of the likker compared to 2 runs on a pot still ? Your parrot has come up good and doing its job well.
G'day Cameron,
Pipes in/out of the thumpers are 3/4 inch copper.
Bit of pressure there but not enough to cause any grief and it's setup so the system can't get blocked up. I should put a few blow-off valves on the vessels to make it all super safe.
The liquor taste great, possibly not the same as two fully dislocated distillations - maybe more like 1.5 distillations but comes out tasting fine.
Cheers - the bigger parrot is necessary now with the increased output, upsurge in the smaller on was giving false readings.
Happy Distilling!
Kegking i just looked has them for 99 dollars if you want to spend that much. 1.5 Inch Tri Clover Pressure Vacuum Relief Valve. looks like its a dual acting valve , looks like it blows at 22 psi, hmmm looks to high for my liking. I have one coming that blows at 14 psi, thats the best i can find with SS value.I think this one acts on imput pressure too i hope. i will find out more, that one was 30 us dollars.
Hell 22 psi is getting up there, ... verging on tyre pressure! Heh.
Happy Distilling.
how many litres does the carboy hold ? ok yes i see it holds 25l nice equipment.
mr Angry Parrot i would not but that one at 22 psi, I think if you installed that one, for me i still think 22 psi is too high, kind of i would always be thinking during a run, that BOF valve is it too strong ?
Show us your Popcorn dance
LOL.
Woman I was seeing a ways back was into dancing, she dragged me along to dancing lessons...
It did not go well. 🤣
Do you ever run a reflux condenser? You won't have to worry about stripping runs.
Heya Dan,
Have run reflux before, got a 4" dephleg for my rig, but tend to pot distil everything for flavor - I'm mainly a rum and peated whisky kinda guy and I capture all the smoke in my whisky. 👍
I'm processing alot of rum wash lately, I should have another play with lightly refluxing some.
Happy Distilling and Merry Christmas fella!
Invert your sugar so the yeast will be happier and less nasties
Put some spice in
First ..its been awhile
Yeah, been ages! 😊