■ 🕑 56. 
│  Cooked up a new sugar wash today: 
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│  - ~18 liters water
│  - 4kg sugar
│  - 250g bran
│  - boiled for 30 mins with spoon of yeast
│  - pinch DAP and epsom salts
│  - 50g yeast at room temp
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│  Smells pretty good, very wheaty and sweet. 
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└─■ 🕑 59. 
    After my strong success doing a 1.5x run of breakfast cereal with 
    sugar, with various feints in my new reflux still, I was curious how 
    running a "wash" on its own through my reflux still would do, after 
    seeing that my new still can effectively reach azeotrope on relatively 
    lower %s.
    
    The results were somewhat disappointing! Reaching azeotrope again took 
    a lot of fiddling around and stalling, overall output was not worth it, 
    and the output spirit (while quite drinkable!) was not what I was 
    expecting. 
    
    I think for the future I will be sending spirits stripped at least once
    to my reflux still, whether diluted feints or low wines. It does add
    time and electric use to the process relative to a simple one and done
    run, but I think the intermediary step is worth it, in terms of operator 
    burden and quality of end result. 
    
    Reflux is still a new world for me. But it's fun playing.