If I gift someone a jar of my likker, I use a PTFE disk.Īnyway, I take precautions, but try not to be too anal about it. I use cork for my aging jars and liquor bottles. After I do a few nuke cycles, I combine whatever I have into 1 gallon pickle jars for aging. I sometimes use heavy duty aluminum foil for lid liners, but as I said before, it's usually for short term storage - cuts or nuke aging. If you've ever cooked an acidic food in an aluminum pan, you might notice that it imparts a grey color to the food - not good. An aluminum boiler can be degraded over time and possibly experience catastrophic failure. I think the main problem with aluminum is that it will be etched by acidic liquids, such as a wash or backset. ![]() I don't really see much problem with it in that application, but I understand some people's concerns about it. I agree about the aluminum being used as lid liners. I had thought about using copper roof flashing to cut out lid liners, but abandoned the idea because of the cost. Apparently the copper will impart some off flavors if the alcohol is exposed to it over a long period of time. There has also been some discussion here on the forums about storing in copper and I think the consensus was that it's not a good idea. Everything is poison and nothing is poison. We put hot alcohol vapor and liquid through copper without a worry. Aluminum from a lid isn't going to leach much of anything. I wouldn't put my hooch in a fully aluminum container either, but we're talking about lids. I don't see alternate suggestions as "derailing the thread". If I can taste the difference between bottled and canned beer and soda, I tend to think it will hold true with spirits. Safety aside, I don't want to impart any "aluminium can" taste into my spirits. I merely suggested materials I would personally use and recommend as safe. Everything I stated was plainly expressed as my opinion of what I personally would use. ShineRunnah wrote:I said it doesn't make my list of safe materials. Or use thin white oak rounds and char the bottom side.Īluminum doesn't make my list of "safe" materials. If I was going to invest the time, I'd use stainless or glass and wrap the edge with ptfe tape to make sure it sealed. I'll take plastisol over aluminum lids any day! I tested the modified lids with water and they don't leak. ![]() A little aluminum on the lid isn't going to hurt anything. So I cut out some 10-mil aluminum circles to replace the inner part of the two-part lids that come with these canning jars. Now plastisol isn't going to kill you if it leaches into your product a bit, but I don't want that crap in my hooch. The problem is, when I put my high ABV liquid into one of those Ball mason jars, the next day there were condensed droplets on the lid. I did a little research and plastisol is fine for intermittent contact with high ABV liquid and with prolonged high ABV fumes/vapor, but not with prolonged high ABV liquid. 42039.html" onclick="window.open(this.href) return false " rel="nofollow The seal on a mason, ball, kerr, is plastisol. ![]() Again any thoughts would be appreciated.Ĭob wrote:according customer service at the ball, kerr web sight (1 8) After all, I've read somewhere that lightning jars are where the name "white lightning" came from so perhaps that may just be the most appropriate choice. I frequently see lightning jars at thrift stores and don't buy them but have begun thinking about it. The other alternative that comes to mind is the old lightning jars with everlasting gaskets instead of the rubber seal. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. I suppose one of the concerns is the composition of the glass lid, as we know lead crystal can leech lead into distillate and most of these inserts are milk glass which may have been made using bone ash, tin dioxide, arsenic or antimony but it is my feeling that since these were intended for long term food storage most of them used bone ash. These glass inserts are actually very common and reasonably cheap on eBay and would serve well to both protect and possibly allow the distillate to breath just a slight amount. This made me pause for thought because there is virtually no difference from the mason jars of 100 years ago and today besides the lids. As usual I didn't find anything valuable but under a tree I found several old style zinc mason jar lids with glass inserts. I've been thinking about this subject a bit lately because the other day a took a break from all my other activities and went metal detecting.
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