To dilute Everclear, you need to determine the percentage of alcohol in the drink and determine how much water to add to reach the desired volume. A simple alcohol dilution calculator can help you determine the correct amount of water to add to your alcohol to proof it down to a specific ABV. You can also toggle between liters or use a free alcohol dilution calculator to measure the alcohol content of moonshine and add the calculated amount of water for best results in home distilling.
A 6:1 ratio water to Everclear will give you a 14 ABV. To reduce the potency of an Everclear tincture, techniques such as adding more liquid, using a lower proof Everclear, or cold and slow in the freezer and qwet can be used. For example, adding 275 ml of water to 200 ml of 95 ABV Everclear to dilute it to 40 ABV can result in a completely clouded mixture.
To dilute Everclear with water, run it through a Brita after mixing it with water, which makes a huge difference and works with cheap vodka too. A 1:1 infusion-water dilution with 190 proof alcohol will give you a perfect burn without detectable carbon. To know how much water to add to dilute your alcohol down, multiply the amount of spirits you have by (strong/weak) – 1.
📹 How to Dilute Your Alcohol..
You have done the Wash and the Distilling, now you need to bring it down from Rocket Fuel to something more palatable.
📹 Diluting Everclear to get proper proof needed for extracts.
I have never see a consistent answer this question about proofing down high proof alcohols. So I asked the person who I would …
Thank you very much for explaining this in great detail. No one puts this into a mathematical formula that’s easy to use and I just tested it out against an online dillution calculator and it’s spot on with what it came up. A still spirits air still using turbo yeast usually yields 1 U.S. Quart at 55% ABV. Using this formula I was able to calculate how much water I needed to bring it down to exactly 40% ABV. 55% divided by 40% X 32 ounces minus 32 ounces = 12 ounces or 1.5 cups of water. The online calculator came up with the exact same answer of 12 ounces or 1.5 cups.
this was the simple formula i was looking for,i had it written in my notes somewhere but can’t find it atm,,but it does not always work well,there might be other factors at play like temperatures but even when i take that into account i still do not hit the target,but its a good ball park and then you make small additions to get there
This formula is actually off slightly. If I use this formula to dilute 1 liter of pure ethanol to 100 proof it tells me to add 1 liter of water. But adding 1 liter of water to pure ethanol yields a proof of about 103 because the water molecule is smaller than the ethanol and will fill up some of the space between the ethanol molecules. Multiplying the final number by 1.03 will get you much closer to the actual proof. Nice formula and article, though.
If the next stage is the carbon filtering then I usually do it the quick way and simply add the same volume of water to the volume of alcohol out of the still (say 92% abv) which drops the abv of course to 46% abv and therefore below the required 50% max that the carbon filter requires. My question is, does the carbon filter work better the closer to 40% you get or doesn’t it matter so long as it is 50% or lower?
This isn’t right. His formula doesn’t give the volume of water needed, it gives the increase of volume needed when adding water to the original mixture. The volume of the mixture at the new % is (orig%/new%) times the original volume. His mistake is when he subtracts off the original volume to calculate the volume of water. Volumes don’t simply add (or subtract) when mixing alcohol and water. The volume of alcohol in the solution isn’t changed by adding water so v1 x %1 = v2 x %2 . so v2 = %1/%2 x v1. (Original volume of solution = v1; original concentration of solution is %1 etc). BUT the amount of water required to do this can’t be calculated from v2 – v1 which is what he calls the needed water. It is the needed change in volume of the solution due to the addition of the water required to reach concentration %2. If v2-v1 = v3 (of the water) then v1 = v2 + v3 but with alcohol and water the volumes would only add if they were the same concentrations to begin with.
idk about this formula,,sometimes i hit the mark other times its just close to it and i have to add more water slowly and hope it hits the right mark,,idk why this happens,,also when you take the reading you need to take into account the temperature of the distillate to adjust by adding or removing points from the abv reading depending on the temp and the chart of you alc meter
I bought McCormick clearance price vanilla (jar with 3) pods more than a year ago, and they sat. With intent to extract, I afterward bought a clearance price 60 proof 750 ml Skinny Girl vodka(not knowing the extract proof necessary until perusal your vanilla extract article. I ordered more organic Madagascar bean pods to have enough. (Had watched Mary’s Nest first then found yours. Then bought for the 100 proof, two 1000-ml Everclear, 190 proof for price and high enough proof. I wanted some coconut rum (CM) but the proof not 100 (?) I am coconut lover…. Thanks for this article but now I mix, and since I mix should I get the coconut rum and ratio the proof together then do the ratio for the distilled water? I am not a drinker any more, so the vodka has to be used for an extract somewhere. I appreciate your response.
Just wanted to say, it could behoove you to just explain the math for people. I remember doing it back in high school in chemistry, it’s just a bit of stoich and a simple proportion equation. I remember seeing some bottles of high proof here in cali, I guess if I see then again I’ll pick them up haha.
The curiousity comes in about the time to do this. It would be beneficial to use higher proof to extract or macerate the vanilla (or lemons) or anything else. I get the desire to reduce it but then there really is no benefit to having the higher proof in the first place. Can you reduce the proof at the end? That would be the time that I would think it would make sense to do it.