No pricing and no response via email. Has something changed ..read more

Anyone here mess with Koji? Started looking into it. This peaked my interest: The primary enzymes in koji are amylase (it breaks down sugar), protease (it converts proteins into the amino acids) and lipase (it breaks fat into the fatty acids and alcohols). Also, if you use alpha enzymes most are derived from Koji ..read more

Probably aimed mostly @grim. Is there any evidence to suggest that having fats in the kettle (in this instance a petchuga styled chicken in the vapor path or in the kettle charge) would have a reactive relationship with heads constituents in such a way that it would sequester perceived heads? Here is the dude's assertion: About serious cabbage soup. My colleague carried out a laboratory analysis of a simple distilled sugar mash with a meat composition and vegetable oil IN ONE TIME WITHOUT SELECTING THE FIRST DROPS. Aldehydes 68.1 mg/dm3 (norm – 10-350) Ketones (acetone) 0.5 mg/dm3 (norm – 0 ..read more

Hey Folks, I have ~80L of wash for a 100L still, which is now at the point it's ready to go through a stripping run. Using a wash calculator, it looks like we'll end up with about 15L of spirit post stripping run. This is my first time, so i'm guessing as i've got the reflux column running, we'll be able to collect (after foreshots / heads / tails) around 12L of usable spirit for spirit run. Question is, given that i've got a 100L still with about 12L for the spirit run, what should i add back into the collection so i can re-run it through the still? i'm worried that if i pop that 12L in, its ..read more

Hoping someone has one sitting on a shelf they no longer use and want to move on. Let me know what you have. I'm in Perth, Australia. Cheers, northernbrewer ..read more

Current 100L boiler has 5 kW heating and takes around 2 hours to heat up my 4" Dash with 3 ProCap plates. Then around 4.5 hours at 4.4 kW with dephlegmator on pretty strong (cold Scottish water) I get a good steady flow through my cuts taking rum hearts around 81% from a 9.5% sugar wash. So I'm running with vapour speed around 15.9"/sec, right? I figure I want to replicate this as I scale up. Thinking going with a 380L boiler with around 15 kW heating, this should take around 3 hours to heat up. I'm thinking a 6" Dash with 3 ProCap plates would take around 9.8 kW to run double flow rate throug ..read more

Hoping someone has one sitting on a shelf they no longer use and want to move on. Let me know what you have. I'm in Perth Australia Cheers, northernbrewer ..read more

Current 100lt boiler has 5kW heating and takes around 2 hrs to heat up my 4" Dash with 3 pro-cap plates. Then around 4.5hrs at 4400W with dephlegmator on pretty strong (cold Scottish water) I get a good steady flow through my cuts taking rum hearts around 81% from a 9.5% sugar wash. So I'm running with vapour speed around 15.9"/sec, right? I figure I want to replicate this as I scale up. Thinking going with a 380litre boiler with around 15kW heating, this should take around 3 hrs to heat up. I'm thinking a 6" Dash with 3 pro-cap plates would take around 9.8kW to run double flow rate through th ..read more

If you ever hear me say that you know I've been kidnapped. I was doing Limoncello today. Just about done and the sugar does its normal thing. Now I have to clean up this disaster. Luckily I found that if I let it soak in PBW for a day or two it's not that hard to clean. It's still a huge mess though. In the photo everything you see that is black solidified almost instantly. It smells horrible to boot. Yay me ..read more

I've picked up a 2000L insulated tank that was previously used to store hot water. The inside of the tank has a lot of rust deposits from the hot water. I've checked that the inner tank is stainless. The previous owners were using a cast iron water heater, hence the rust deposits. I've cleaned up the stains on the outside using CLR and a sponge. I want to use CIP or hosing of chemical over the inside to do the cleaning as I don't want to get inside. The fumes from the CLR when doing the outside were bad enough. Does anyone have any suggestions for chemicals or products I can use to clean the r ..read more