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I have the T500, and my mother and her partner do as well.

It's an awesome still, everyone raves it's the duck's nuts of stills currently out!!!

When stilling with the T500, personally I keep the temps of the water betwee 55 and 60 degrees, no more, no less.

I get a good flow of alcohol from my ...

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Yep, temps way too high. Result is instead of boiling the alcohol which boils around 80 degrees, you also boiled the water and other impurities which start boiling at 100 degrees C. Result was your condensor also condensing the water/impure steam, and the wash coming through as well.

Do you have ...

I distill into a Demijohn, then use a half-sized fermenter to water down my product (using a Britta inline tap filter and tap water), using the fermenter tap to pour into a test-tube for testing the alcohol percentage.

Once I am at my 40%, I then use the carbon filter to further purify my end ...

In theory it should still boil at the same temp, condense at the same temp and get the same end-result.

Only thing I can think of with cloudy wash and distilling is that you have a larger clean-up job at the end..... (Someone please correct me here if I am wrong).

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