Ok, I have surfed around and seen people talking a "standard 25 litre wash". I understand this is what comes out of the fermenter before you distill it. What I am curious about is how much a 5 litre still can handle. Does the 5 litres mean that you can't fit all of that 25 litre wash in? Or that you can but you can only feed 5 litres into the still at once. So only 5 litres can be distilled every 4-5 hours or whatever it is.
Just asking cos by my calculation you only get about one spirit bottle's worth (700ml or so ) from 5 litres of wash and I am interested in "distilling water" in bulk. But it seems only 5 litre "water stills" are available in oz.
I am hoping you can just do up a 25 litre batch in my beer fermenter and distill 5 litres into spirits at a time, over a couple of days.
Also i havent been able to see how you would vary the alcohol strength, most info i have seen simply says it comes out at 80%. I am more looking at around 40% as a desired strength. Is this determined through temperature,water etc??
Appreciate any advice
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