What is heads and how much do I get rid of - Moonshine

[@Impresario_zero]

Speaking to the everyday person about this topic, love it, bro. Not all scientific, perfect. Brewing and distilling is different every single time and comes from experience.. sharing experience is WAY more beneficial to the world than numbers.

[@drumminsonlive9199]

Thanks Phil the continuous feeling smelling and tasting during the run is the key to good product not watching a hydrometer floating in a proofing parrot. Keep the videos coming for us my friend!

[@Miata822]

I was glad you mentioned tasing the mash to get an idea of how a ferment is coming along. That has always seemed obvious to me but I never hear people mention it. Also 100% agree about doing cuts by smell and taste, You don't want to get greedy and start including stuff that isn't good. Just save those tails and rerun 'em.

[@danevans7693]

Thank you for the info. You have come a long way since you started. When your table was an old wooden spool. I've always enjoyed listening to you.

[@gordonbowen8846]

🤙bro Thank you for being you and making this hobby enjoyable for me!!! You rock brother👊

[@jeremymillrood]

Thanks for the concise explanation PhilBilly, new to distilling and this is the one thing I've been struggling with.

[@keithsmith6932]

Excellent explanation. This is just what we need. Thank you.

[@labaronrodgerssr7488]

I’m learning a lot thanks for the knowledge

[@DisneyUpBoilerUp]

I'm such a definitive instruction person. I like having the 50ml/gal number to follow. I need to learn by the taste and smell ... Working on it 😂

[@vanessat2677]

Thanks for sharing Phil!

[@daverees986]

Hey Phill. you've mellowed a lot from your earlier video's. it's called getting older. Good information for beginners like me 😉

[@bladenrexroth2555]

When I got into distilling. I was taught to trust the proofing parrot. I was told that anything above 150 gets tossed in the fuel barrel and anything from 150 to 40 can go directly into the bucket or barrel. Was told anything after 40 can be drained right into the tails bucket and reused for the next run. I was taught to run on a homemade 80 gallon copper still that was mad from 2 40 gallon hot water heaters hidden in plain site. Temp controlled throughout the run for the best abv and flavor. This was almost 30 years ago.

[@Chronicseedsinc]

His mouth starts watering, that’s how he tells 😂✌🏻❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@OVRCOME]

I always smell for rubbing alcohol! That's my 1st check.. After that its taste.. Or when the rubbing alcohol smell starts going away I start tasting. Once you get familular with a particular mash (like Corn) and Volume, you know about how much to take off and you can start smelling/tasting around then!

[@danthemann]

So happy to hear someone else say forget about the foreshots, just cut for taste. Methanol itself is not toxic nor abundant enough in shine to satisfy the prohibitionists. TIME reported in the Jan. 10, 1927, issue, a solution emerged from the anti-drinking forces in the government: that year, a new formula for denaturing industrial-grade alcohol was introduced, doubling how poisonous the product became. The new formula included “4 parts methanol (wood alcohol), 2.25 parts pyridine bases, 0.5 parts benzene to 100 parts ethyl alcohol” and, as TIME noted, “Three ordinary drinks of this may cause blindness.” (In case you didn’t guess, “blind drink” isn’t just a figure of speech.) (TIME on is copied text)

[@SteveRix78]

Yep....I have a glen cairn glass that put some drops in, easier to tell if it's heads (for me). I always do a stripping, then a spirit run......seems to work out best for me. I'll get a good gallon (on a 13gallon boiler) of the same high proof.....once it starts to dip down, I'm on the hunt for the cut to tails.....it comes quick.

[@jbwagonmaker8887]

Good one , thamks

[@lonnieevans4127]

Foreshots and heads make great lighter fluid for the smoker and a solvent for making black powder.

[@MOK3]

I did an all grain (no sugar to bump it up) 4gal mash i hit 1070, it went from 70% to 50% after heads and the 3rd pint quick ! Then it was disgusting 😅, it on oak right now, I'm tired of these lil 4&5 gal runs I'm gonna upgrade to at least a 10 gal pot still for my needs

[@anthonysausen5396]

This video was great, really solidified some things for me. Could you do a video explaining heat up times with and without a thumper on your 20 gal? Ive heard it should take 2 hours, and some say it should take 3-5 hours. What's your thoughts?

[@philbillymoonshine7356]

I heat up quick, usually with in 45 minutes people swear by smoother likker if you heat up slow but my likker is smooth enough for me, I run quick and hard. The down side to it is you will have a higher proof if you run slower and lower but its only by a couple proof and doesn't matter to me.

[@SwampWaterInfusions]

Great content

[@garrymcgaw4745]

G'day Phil, how much did that carton of mason cost you?. Thanks in advance mate.

[@DUMPTHETRUCK]

If it’s a corn mash I get rid of ATLEAST 4oz and 6oz off a 5 gallon fruit mash minimum to be safe.

[@ryangregory3094]

If you start a run and toss the heads and stop the still and let it cool off over night. Then start it up a few days later do you have to make a cut for heads again?

[@DUMPTHETRUCK]

I would say no. Heads is a different type of alcohol so when it’s gone it’s gone, I think it’s methenal alcohol that gives you the headache,,,cheap booze gives you bad hangovers because of this,,,

[@GorillaGlueEnthusiast]

50ml per gallon of mash, does that translate the same on my spirit run if I do a stripping run without removing anything?

[@workhardplayhard801]

Not sure where I heard this said but , when it comes to making cuts sometimes to keep in mind is that, good liquor should never offend any part of your experience. In the beginning it may burn your eyes, and nose , Plus lips tongue throat esophagus and belly , further along, stops burning eyes and nose but still burns lips tongue, etc.,etc. Further "still"😏stops burning lips and tongue but still burns throat and so on. Keeps getting more drinkable as it progresses, to a point where it smells great taste great and warms you in good way not burns you in an offensive way that is painful . Proofing will make the you more accurate because even hearts can burn the less seasoned taster sometimes simple dilution is the solution. Rock out with your 🐓out ! 🥃cheers !

[@jonathanflud492]

How much would you toss from a air still?

[@fredflintstone358]

Heads flavored with apple pie shine is what Mags Bennett used to kill her opponents and, ultimately, herself. "Justified"

[@cpaoutdoors9926]

Lights cut product cut tails cut light are your methanols product is ethanol tails is water

[@hardassteel]

Methanol boiling point is 148.5 and Ethanol is 173. When you distill it, the first drip is methanol, then there will be a pause. Once the pause occurs, it burned off all the methanol. Then next bit will be ethanol.

[@labaronrodgerssr7488]

The hydrometer doesn’t float at all in the shine that I made can you tell me why ?

[@DUMPTHETRUCK]

@@labaronrodgerssr7488 there are two types of Hydrometers one is for proof liquor 🥃 and one is for beer 🍺 and starting gravity it’s probably the wrong one

[@philbillymoonshine7356]

the hydrometer could be malfunctioning but most likely you have no alcohol because the yeast in your mash did not work. Taste it and if you taste alcohol then it must have sugar in it some how, not sure what all the factors are hard to answer this without being able to ask you questions.

[@labaronrodgerssr7488]

@@philbillymoonshine7356 it tastes like alcohol and it even smells good and gives a good kick . I’m going to make a new batch this week and I’m going to follow all the steps I’ve learned watching videos .

[@labaronrodgerssr7488]

@@philbillymoonshine7356 Thank you for replying to my question . I’m sure I’ll have many more , again thank you 👍🏾

[@ZombiePumps]

When running high reflux, your cuts are all condensed, so less volume of heads that are very rough.

[@TrueMetalJake]

Smell my finger, lol

[@MOK3]

Yep, that fruity no drip vapor, means your minutes away from drippage

[@Honda-4-life]

You should charge people to come to a class where you run a batch to teach them how to do a run. I know I would pay for that.

[@DUMPTHETRUCK]

I think some of that blind shit could also be government propaganda just like the absinthe lies when the French tried to get people back to drinking wine over absinthe,,,good video,,you should do a video of liquor lies and myths,,,there are some great stories of liquor,,,the Bacardi story is pretty good to read about

[@williamjohnston4192]

Stink finger

[@robertlarson8141]

Nice rack!!

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