The popularity of brewing in the country is gainingturns. And I must say that the product that modern lovers of home made strong drinks can boast of is not always that dull melancholy fuzzy with a bad smell, the memories of which come to mind when one word "moonshine".
How the distillation of alcohol occurs
Production of alcohol or homemade moonshineis divided into two stages. The first is the production of ethyl alcohol from sugar-containing products with the help of special microorganisms - yeast, in other words, fermentation. The next stage is the sublimation of the berg, in order to obtain a product purified from unnecessary and harmful impurities, with a higher content of ethyl alcohol.
What is the use of a dry cell for manufacturingmoonshine? It is for cleaning and giving the fortress. Self-made apparatus will work without a dry-butcher, but the drink will have an unpleasant smell, and it will be difficult to achieve a good fortress.
The separation of alcohol from the brew occurs because of the difference in the boiling points of alcohols and water. The process looks like this:
- There is a heating of the brew in the evaporator, until it reaches a temperature of 65 ° C nothing happens.
- At 65-76 ° C, the first drops of moonshine with a high content of methanol, CH3(OH) - the strongest poison, not suitable even forexternal application. This is another reason why you need a dry cell. On the moonshine, equipped with this device, a moonshine is prepared, completely purified from methanol and other light poisonous fractions.
- 76-82 ° С - there is a process of obtaining a quality pure moonshine.
- 82-96 ° C - there is a collection of secondary brewer with a low alcohol content, which will subsequently be added to the brew of the next batch.
- 96 ° С - the sublimation stops.
And what is the busy cell
To explain what a drywall is needed formoonshine, it should be noted that although the boiling point of water is 100 ° C, it begins to evaporate much earlier. It intensively passes into a gaseous state, along with the vapor of the ethyl alcohol of its vapor, enter the cooler and then into the tank with moonshine, lowering the "degree".
Installed before the cooler, the dry cell facilitates the condensation of excess water vapor.
The simplest construction of a dry cell
Итак, для чего нужен сухопарник в самогонном apparatus, it is understandable. But what if the device is not equipped with this device? An easy-to-manufacture and yet quite effective version of the dephlegmator is shown in the figure.
The construction consists of a glass jar witha hermetically sealed cover and two fittings that are able to make from the piece of "galleys" any turner of the middle hand. Let the appearance of the device be unclouded, but why do we need a dry cell? For the moonshine, it acts as a primary filter, and the described construction with this role perfectly handles.
How to use a dry cell
All points above i will be placed by the first race. Only having done the whole process with your own hands and having tried the result, you understand why a dry-cellar is needed in the home-made apparatus.
At the beginning of the sublimation, the first 50milliliters of moonshine (from every 10-15 liters of original breg). During this time, about 20-30 milliliters of liquid condenses in the dry cell. This liquid (both from a dry cell and from a refrigerator) must be disposed of, not allowing it to enter the final product.
In the future, the process is in the normal mode,moonshine, flowing from the refrigerator, is collected for further processing (filtration, infusion, etc.). It has a fortress of about 70%, has remarkable transparency and good organoleptic properties.
And here's what else you need a dry cell formoonshine - in it, in the process of sublimation, moonshine is collected, not completely purified, of a small fortress (about 15-20%), but without harmful impurities. It is collected and poured into the barge before the next race, thereby increasing the yield of the final product.