If you are making NEUTRAL alcohol, make sure it is polished using activated carbon. Soak it for at least a week (and up to a couple of months) to remove any aldehydes, amines and fusil oils that could be present. Use about 1 cup of carbon to 4-5L of spirit. This will take out the rough edge usually associated with typical moonshine, and leave Spirits clean, tasteless & odorless, ready for flavoring. The carbon works by being a type of "molecular sieve", trapping the molecules which are larger than ethanol. They become trapped in the pores inside the carbon, and also by surface energies on the carbon. So it won't remove methanol, but only larger molecules (eg the fusels). Likewise, the trapped molecules are sometimes held fairly loosely to it, so if you try to filter too fast, they can be washed off the carbon and back into your spirits.
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