Isoamyl effect

Cakicen

Hi all, anyone who has knowledge about this? i just watched in a yt video.
If you distill at 20% instead of 40 the isoamyl effect is greatly reduced. This is valid for simple pot still run. Because isoamyl hates water. Also it is better to apply carbon filter at lower abv 20-30. Because fusel oils dissolves better at lower abv.
Cheers.

Yummyrum

Care to put uo a link to the Youtube ?  . Unless of  cause its George than , well shut this down right now .My recommended goto .
https://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.ph ... ion_Theory

Cakicen

this is the link of the video.

Chauncey

George only speaks gibberish so definitely not a George video. Though the words in this yt are basically gibberish to me,but that's a user end issue on my part.
When people tell me I'll regret that in the morning,  I sleep till noon.

LWTCS

Pretty sure Harry or Snuffy has talked about this approach somewhere around here back in the day.
Not so sure how critical this is at the hobby scale?Trample the injured and hurdle the dead.

LWTCS

Slightly off topic but also somewhat relevant, I have posted this analysis here before.
The analysis illustrates how the higher plate count allows for an accumulation of fusels.

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LWTCS

And here is a simple diagram of how to implement a decanter for Isoamyl separation.
This typically used for continuous distillation.
It's very similar to an oil separator.Attachments

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quadra

What book is that decanter drawing from?

LWTCS

This one here I'm pretty sure.

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quadra

Thanks

shadylane

Just discovered something.
I can't understand Turkish.  

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For neutral spirits, I'll dilute low-wines to around 20% before redistilling.
My reasoning is more of the fusel alcohols remain in the boiler and can be easily drained off.
On the advice of a friend, I've also done it a time or two when making 3X pot-stilled whiskey.
Seemed to me, the spirt run could go deeper into the tails for the grain and malt character,
The final ABV was also lower, so less water was needed for proofing down to drinking strength.

squigglefunk

i love me some isoamyl all up in my drank

LWTCS

Its in mostly every drinkTrample the injured and hurdle the dead.