Cleaning brew with charcoal

Brew - strong drink containing ethanol, which is made at home by running fermentation product through devices (homemade or factory made) as a result of biochemical process (fermentation) on products containing sugar or based on regular sugar.

People has been doing homebrew for several hundreds of years. After all, handmade of this drink guarantee high quality and absence of admixtures. Homebrew can serve as a base for other alcohol tinctures or cocktails. Practical skills, good ingredients and compliance with production algorithms are needed in order to get pure alcoholic drink.

General homebrewing rules include:

• use high quality ingredients (sugar, cereals, fruits);
• use only clean dishes;
• add clean or filtered water;
• brewing room should have high temperature;

Homebrewing is possible with obsolete method using improvised containers, but today there is no need for that, because buying homebrewing machine is not difficult. Alongside with auxiliary fixtures: distillation cube, fermentation tank, divertor, drawer side, alcoholometer, diopter, water seal, coal column.

Coal column - auxiliary element used to get rid of bad smells and admixtures in distillate. Operating procedure is simple:

1. Liquid is poured in column from top, and it heads to bottom.
2. Drink passes through layer of coal, taking in admixtures.
3. Cleaned brew flows in receiving container.
4. Homebrew is passed through coal column several times.
5. After filtration of all liquid volume, coal should be replaced. Repeated usage for another portion of homebrew is undesirable.
6. If distillate has dark shade, it can be filtered with gauze or cotton wool.

The reason for unpleasant smell is excess fusel oils, which is hard to remove even after several filtrations. Adsorbent in this case is activated coal. Specialized coal for winemaking exists. The most widespread ones are coconut and birch activated charcoal.

There is a way to clean alcohol drink without coal column. In this case coal is crushed and added to homebrew, and infused from several hours to week, periodically shaking, and then filtered. Thanks to porous structure activated coal absorbs fusel oils, cleaning brew.

Homebrew characteristics depend on coal quality. So only coal produced with special equipment can be used for homebrewing. Cleaning homebrew with coal is an easy way to transform murky unsightly liquid into worthy drink. Because homebrewing is not only good tradition, but also interesting and amusing hobby, which does amusing hobby, which does amusing hobby, which does not lose actuality to this day.