Al, > Hi I have produced moonshine [()0O] > I know that its impossible to 99% alcohole wil a still > My question being [at the most you can get anout 94% and > not a great deal of that in distilling a batch] > what percentage HAS the alcohole to be and what happens > when you can reach that purity>
It depends on how effective your column is. I have a 1.5m x 2" diameter column, and it will produce 96% alcohol even when the wash is down to less than 1-2% alcohol. It does run as a batch - the boiler holds 30L. As the wash gets lower and lower in alcohol, it just means that I have to increase the "reflux ratio" slightly - eg collect less, and return more of the distillate back to the column to help purify the rising vapour. This column does the same job as about 12 pot stills one-after-the-other, but does it in a single pass. For more information about home distilling, see http://homedistiller.org , and also check out the "distillers" and "new_distillers" newsgroups at http://www.yahoogroups.com Tony ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
