Any problems with 2014 Corinth Wood Pellets?

[DAGME]

Hello friends,

I've been a user of Corinth (Maine) Wood Pellets for the past 3 years. This year, however, I've been having problems with Corinth producing massive clinkers (literally, one huge clinker nearly filling the burn pot). In the past, I've found that Corinth has been one of the cleanest burning pellets in our Quadra-fire Castile stove. I've heard that the plant went offline in 2014 to be retooled/updated before being sold to new buyers.

Bottom line, we never had a problem with Corinth before, and I did the right thing and bought 3 bags of it to test burn before committing. But now I appear to have 3 tons of clinker-making pellets!

For comparison, I'm also burning Maine Woods Pellets (out of Athens), and produce less than 1/4 cup of ash per 40lb bag.

I've tried to get some advice/information from our vendor (Paris Farmers Union) with no luck and from Corinth Wood Pellets themselves (nobody picks up the phone), but am at a loss.

Anyone else having problems with Corinth Pellets?

Thanks!

 

[muss]

Give 'em a tad more air. I had the same thing happen a couple years back when I tried a different brand & I found they needed more air & they burned like my other brand . Clinkers ,as a rule, are usually caused by air control. Good luck & let us know

 

[DAGME]

muss, Thanks for the advice. Not quite sure how to increase the airflow on the Castile (it's very straigtforward on our Enviro, but the Quad Castile seems pretty hands-off), so I'll do some research and figure it out. Will post the results.

 

[Flammam]

I burnt Cornith about 6 years back. Made the mistake of buying 5 tons absolute worst pellet I have ever put in my stove.

 

[Eastporter]

I bought a ton from EBS in December. I thought they burned very hot, very little ash, and big black clinkers. I kept one black cube it was so perfect. My first ton from EBS was MWP, and they were ashy, and not particularly hot, but steady and fine for the fall. EBS down here had MWPs again in January, so I bought a ton, and started mixing with the Corinths since I had about 10 bags left, and a 100lb hopper. That worked pretty well. The heat was welcome in the bitter first weeks of January, and there were no clinkers.