How do we separate foreshots, heads, hearts and tails?

about the jumping ball today we are going to talk about a topic it is four throws

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four throws faints if you understand my point there are many different opinions on this but I am going to give you, George's explanation and the way he explained it. I do, I'm not necessarily the only one who doesn't have the right answer, I have a pretty good one, but if you read on the internet and in vlogs, no matter where you look the information is very confusing. I'd like to just break it down and make it as simple as possible and then develop your own technique in your own process, but before we get to that in the last video I presented an idea about using copper in copper pennies that were minted before. 1982, so I spent a little bit of time, went to my local bank and said, hey, here's a dollar bill, give me ten rolls of pennies and they did it and I.

I took the ten rolls of pennies, cleaned them, put them in a bucket, use some tarnex and look, when you do that, the room smells a little awful, you know, it smells like you know you're dyeing. your hair is something but it does a great job it cleans everything and you can also read the dates I went through thoroughly and looked at every penny and ended up with a bag of pennies that couldn't be used because they were minted in 1982 or later and I ended up with a bag of pennies that were minted before 1982, so they are 97.5% copper and you can use them in your column.

I didn't count these people, what I did was weigh them and I found out that 30%. of my 10 rolls we are good pennies, so there is a copper fountain for you to start checking the dates on your pennies. Okay, let's get to the point here because now we have a discussion about forecasts, heads, hearts, tails, depending on which document you choose. or what literature you read sometimes you will find that four throws are not even discussed or heads are not even discussed so it is four throws hearts tails or just heads heart tails and in some cases you will find that having four throws faints don't let all that confuse you here's a way I look at it, believe it or not, in my opinion, four shots and heads really happen together when you stop and think about it, let's go down I'm going to use a couple of numbers.

I don't want to confuse you, but I use a couple of numbers to show you what I mean. Then you have hearts, which is what you really want to keep. Now the big question is. When do I make these cuts right in my opinion? I said well, why don't I let the process help me as best I can? I'll demonstrate it to you in a minute, but explain it first. Know that, as an example, ethanol is going to scientifically boil in the atmosphere at sea level, it's going to boil at 170 3.1 degrees Fahrenheit or 78 point 37 degrees Celsius, but that's all at sea level, none of us always We're at sea level, so we're going to be different places, so remember that whichever of these numbers we use, yours may be a little off depending on your elevation.

I mean, my goodness, ask someone from Denver Colorado how hard it is to boil potatoes. You will find that there is a big difference, okay, but this. That's a good fact for you, so if we know that's what ethanol is, we know that water boils at sea level at 212 or 100 degrees Celsius. Now you have what is called an azeotropic mixture. You know it's something like ninety, almost 96 percent. four percent ethanol, as long as you have 4 percent water in there, you're never going to get one hundred percent ethanol because with the difference in azeotrope it's a positive azeotrope, which means that the boiling point of the elements that are there when You mix them, the boiling point of that mixture is always a little lower than any of those boiling points and in this example 171 boiling point is a boiling point of ethanol and 212 degrees is a boiling point of water well when you mix them. two together, the boiling point will be a little bit lower than 171, so at that point we know that that's at sea level, so when we have two together, if we go up to 168 degrees Fahrenheit and increase it and keep it there now .

We know that methanol is released at 145 degrees Fahrenheit, now ethanol will happen whether you like it or not, because it is in the process on your rising scale, so let that happen on its own, don't try to force that process. and don't stop at 145 just keep going but when you get to 168 keep it there and if you keep it there for about 10 minutes what will happen is your distiller will start working somewhere after 145 and may even start. before 145 it all depends on the atmospheric pressure in your local area and everything else involved as that happens when the temperature starts to rise when it gets to 168 it keeps it there for 10 minutes everything within that column , everything that is here is beginning to mature.

I would say either get up and start filling that column it's going to start coming out now remember 171 is ethanol 212 is water let's not increase it beyond 168 for about 10 minutes which means nothing in this pot can come out because I haven't reached that yet. boiling point, but all of your four shots and heads are already in that column and are starting to maneuver to the top of the column. You give them enough time while it starts to build a little bit of pressure and they will start to come out now once that stops you've already taken out the four shots and the heads waiting about 10 minutes at 168 now how much are you going to collect in a wash sugar that you don't normally use.

We don't have much methanol, very very little to talk about, but we know that as standard practice, 250 milliliters per five gallons is what is collected and dumped in the four shots. On the other hand, the heads are different depending on what is done. You have in that container, so if you keep it at 168 for ten minutes, everything that you would consider heads in that container will disappear because what will happen is your capacitor will stop producing when it stops producing, you will know that you have done everything you want. From then on, collecting will be expensive, so once we reach our 168 we will hold it there for 10 minutes, get rid of our four shots and our heads are gone.

Now we are collecting hearts. My friends will collect hearts. and that will happen from 173 to 179 and again, depending on the atmospheric pressure where you use your red versus sea level, some of your stills will go up to 184. This will take some up to 186 and again everything. It all depends on where you are measuring, make sure you measure the velocity at that velocity at the point at the top of the header where the steam enters the condenser, just measure the same place each time, so find the sweet spot on You're still there, but you will continue collecting now when we already know when to make the cut of four shots and heads.

We are now in hearts, so in hearts territory we continue collecting. We continue collecting. We continue collecting now. How do we know? when to make the cut between hearts and tails. I'm here to tell you that yes, there is a mathematical formula because at some point you get this balance within the wash and it can only do so much. Look, your best guide will be. be your nose and your taste buds, so if you know you have 20% mash in a five-gallon batch, you can anticipate picking up a gallon when you get to a half-gallon, that's when you should start watching closely for is moving. in the queues or not, you see what I mean, it gives you that idea, if so, it's good to know first what the alcohol by volume is in your mash.

Help if you don't know, just keep an eye on it, use smaller. jars to collect, but as you start collecting, start to smell it, you will notice it almost immediately as the smell changes and the taste changes. Now remember the tasting I'm talking about, just a little bit on your finger. No, don't take glasses yes. you do that in your hearts, when you get the details you won't know the difference, so just smell it and people say it smells a bit like Oh, a wet cardboard smell, it's a bit spicier to me than that, but you'll notice it directly , it has a sweet, neutral smell or, all of a sudden, you'll notice this wet cardboard or a stench, maybe even like burnt corn or some kind of burning, no, you'll notice it there immediately.

You will also be able to try it and as soon as you get to that is when you will stop collecting the hearts and you can start collecting colas when we collect colas for the only reason we collect colas because we know there is a lot of alcohol left. there, but there are also those spells and all those other oils in unrefined products that we have to take out, we don't have to take them out, but if we take them out it's useful because we put them in the next batch. Worry if you put them in the next batch, they'll

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again and you'll end up with tails again, but you'll also end up with a higher proof in your teapot, so okay, look, that's clear, uh, how it looks. in your photo because I get this question a lot too, so when we're running, let's say we get to 145 and I hope you can see this, you'll see a couple of drops that appear a little bit there and then.

They'll start to drip now we're going from 145 to about 168. You hold it there and you'll notice it'll start to drip a little more. Now there's a run, a couple more drops, another run and look, that's what I call the dribble, the squirt, the dribble, the squirt, that'll do now what, and you can even get something that looks like this for one or two seconds. Now what will happen is when you get to that 168 you hold it there. for 10 minutes you are still, suddenly do this, it will stop once it stops, it's time to turn up the heat a little and once you reach the perfect temperature, now observe the temperature of your head and get up. the temperature of the ethanol vaporizes some of that water, you will still start dripping again, this is when you are collecting hearts and now you can notice them when you see drip, drip, drip and the gush, drip, drip, gush and it will continue. to do that there is an effort and I always say that it is like the size of the tip of a pencil and that is for a good two inch column, a 3 inch column will produce a little more, a little faster, there goes another effort , look, so Continue doing that until you get to your tails and at this point this is where you're going to smell and you're going to taste and remember when you taste, it's just a little bit on the tip of your finger.

You do not know? Don't reach for the shot glasses when you're trying to get through this, but this is what it should look like when you're still running and you're running healthy. Now there are people who will confuse that there are people. I'm going to say that I'm wrong, okay, I have tough skin, our experience has shown us that we make a very exquisite quality product by following these simple steps. We wish you the best in your beer hobby, remember to never follow advice or cook. advice from a skinny man and never take a sleeping pill and all accident at the same time see you next time