does good soup seperate?

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....i made 4+ liters of OSoup a couple weeks ago. haven't started using it

yet... will get used to LDN for awhile first.

 

now i see it's seperating in the bottles quite a bit.

 

when first condensed, the soup was a very pretty dark burgundy color that

turned more brown as it cooled.

but the time it had cooled to room temp and been filtered a bunch of times

it looked like root beer soncentrate, with a more clear and viscous (?)

stuff settling to the bottome of the bottles. over the last couple weeks

the % of the stuff on bottome has increased.

 

this OSoup was preserved with 190 proof = 95% grain alcohol instead of

vodka. enough to make the OSoup = approx 10% alcohol (100ml/liter)

 

current questions:

 

is this seperation normal ???

are both parts good, just mix before using? or...

should i pour off the stuff on top?

or is the whole batch somehow not good? if so, what happened ???

 

thanks,

bobL

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Some settling is normal, though I am not sure what happened in your case and I am not familiar with anyone using 190 proof alcohol before. Normal OS would have a greater concentration than 10% alcohol though. More like 20 - 25% depending on whether one uses 80 or 100 proof vodka.

One thing that concerns me is that alcohol, especially ethanol, tends to precipitate out valuable water soluable (polar) components of the oleander, such as the long chain polysacharrides. I am not so sure I would want to filter out too much of what settles out.

oleander soup , "bob Larson" <bobList wrote:>> ...i made 4+ liters of OSoup a couple weeks ago. haven't started using it> yet... will get used to LDN for awhile first.> > now i see it's seperating in the bottles quite a bit.> > when first condensed, the soup was a very pretty dark burgundy color that> turned more brown as it cooled.> but the time it had cooled to room temp and been filtered a bunch of times> it looked like root beer soncentrate, with a more clear and viscous (?)> stuff settling to the bottome of the bottles. over the last couple weeks> the % of the stuff on bottome has increased.> > this OSoup was preserved with 190 proof = 95% grain alcohol instead of> vodka. enough to make the OSoup = approx 10% alcohol (100ml/liter)> > current questions: > > is this seperation normal ???> are both parts good, just mix before using? or...> should i pour off the stuff on top?> or is the whole batch somehow not good? if so, what happened ???> > thanks,> bobL>