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Geoff
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: Legalization of Home Distilling
- Topic: Things l love to hear
- Replies: 15
- Views: 878
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: whats your music
- Replies: 2656
- Views: 239855
Re: whats your music
That's the one, yummyrum.
Geoff
Geoff
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: whats your music
- Replies: 2656
- Views: 239855
Re: whats your music
Travelling a different road, as usual.
On you tube:
Polyphony: Motets and Madrigals (15th - 20th Century .
Easy listening.
Geoff
On you tube:
Polyphony: Motets and Madrigals (15th - 20th Century .
Easy listening.
Geoff
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Legalization of Home Distilling
- Topic: A bit of good news for home distilling
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8484
Re: A bit of good news for home distilling
Probably the situation where federal law overrides state law will still apply...
Geoff
Geoff
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:54 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: An easy little trick with hot oak
- Replies: 17
- Views: 740
Re: An easy little trick with hot oak
The explanation is much longer than the experiment.
Geoff
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:38 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Fortified Apple Wine
- Replies: 9
- Views: 787
Re: Fortified Apple Wine
I could look into that...WiAppleOak wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:40 pm You may want to look into pommeau. It's more or less pressed juice dosed with brandy and then aged.
Commercial apple juice from the supermarket, preservative shouldn't matter?
And I have plenty of brandy from wine that was past its prime.
Geoff
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:21 am
- Forum: Alcohol as Fuel
- Topic: Fire starter pellets/slugs
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6260
Re: Fire starter pellets/slugs
TwoHedWlf said, 'I've used methanol in the containers on its own'. I think you would mean 'feints'. The idea that the first liquid off the still is methanol has been discredited for a long time now. Incidentally my son used to buy 205 litre drums of actual methanol when he was making diesel from use...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:06 am
- Forum: Liqueurs
- Topic: Lemoncello Making (Odin's Recipe)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2298
Re: Lemoncello Making (Odin's Recipe)
Some have suggested slightly less ripe lemons if I remember right.
Geoff
Geoff
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: An easy little trick with hot oak
- Replies: 17
- Views: 740
Re: An easy little trick with hot oak
I wonder how effective a vacuum chamber would be at removing any moisture from the wood. Not everyone owns a vacuum pump & chamber , but it should be more energy efficient if it would actually work. Just suppose you warmed the wood somewhat (dead cold would work against the plan); And suppose y...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: Stills and still building information
- Topic: Copper washing machine still
- Replies: 9
- Views: 374
Re: Copper washing machine still
You could use an old copper wash boiler insert.
No solder, they are just shaped.
Tried to copy and paste but that didn't work for me.
Geoff
No solder, they are just shaped.
Tried to copy and paste but that didn't work for me.
Geoff
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: strawberry panty-dropper
- Replies: 747
- Views: 278044
Re: strawberry panty-dropper
1-2qts frozen strawberries white granulated sugar bottle of clear brandy or vodka lemon juice I'm planning to try making a batch of limoncello this weekend, so after removing the peels I'll have a bunch of lemons left. I was thinking of trying this recipe except with lemons. Anyone tried/have any t...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:26 am
- Forum: Other Hobbies and Projects
- Topic: Wine Cellar Build
- Replies: 12
- Views: 712
Re: Wine Cellar Build
Yeah, I ran quite a lot in '22. There is 45 gallons of last years Pinot that has not been sulfited that I could run, but I already have enough brandy to last a while. All the wine in bottles has had sulfite added, so they are out. I made what seems to me to be nice brandy out of ordinary bottles of...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:27 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Meme’s
- Replies: 1364
- Views: 136186
Re: Meme’s
Dunno quite how anyone goes this far through life without knowing who all three are. kinda easy. weird thing is i don't really recognize anybody, save people i see like all the time. even people from high school that i knew well for years. I've sat in las vegas and chatted with actors and thought &...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:18 am
- Forum: Resources and Reviews
- Topic: What is your favorite distillation series in social media ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 750
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:38 am
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: New Keg Still Build
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1208
Re: New Keg Still Build
If you have piped gas propane may be the go. Bottled, probably not. Depends on the price too. Geoff Bottled propane is all we’ve got access to in my area. It’s the standard $20 to fill a gas grill sized tank. It’s really tempting to just say screw it and go with gas for the time being since it’s a ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:23 am
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: New Keg Still Build
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1208
Re: New Keg Still Build
If you have piped gas propane may be the go.
Bottled, probably not.
Depends on the price too.
Geoff
Bottled, probably not.
Depends on the price too.
Geoff
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:15 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Closing up the shed...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1376
Re: Closing up the shed...
And the fun part will be building out the new shed as the dust settles and the maiden run in the new shed. I'm moving from a crowded subdivision out to the sticks here pretty soon myself. The wife already gave me the go-ahead to build a dedicated still shed so now I'm trying to figure out what the ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:10 am
- Forum: Resources and Reviews
- Topic: What is your favorite distillation series in social media ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 750
Re: What is your favorite distillation series in social media ?
I don't do social media.
Geoff
Geoff
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Old tin plated boiler
- Replies: 11
- Views: 599
Re: Old tin plated boiler
Years ago bakery mixing bowls, which commonly mixed 150 lb of flour into dough, were tinned. And a fellow used to call from time to time to re-tin them. By wiping hot solder on the surface. Solder which contained lead. And when he was finished he collected his money and retired to the pub. So anythi...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:20 am
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Pre-prohibition yeast
- Replies: 21
- Views: 802
Re: Pre-prohibition yeast
I've been searching old NZ newspapers of the era. Bakers and householders were getting their yeast from brewers and distillers. I would speculate that they were using cultures imported from Europe, mainly Germany. When I started my baker's apprenticeship, in 1958, the master said his father used to...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:58 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: my first link added
- Replies: 8
- Views: 526
Re: my first link added
Computer fuction baker. I'm not good at translating whats in my brain and what comes out as text, didn't mean to sound rude about elderly member's. I've learnt all o have from the older generation. Its where I'm heading now but dont have knowledge to hand down :lolno: Hell, I'm happy. Just didn't k...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:50 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Impact of forest fire smoke on fruit for distilling
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1434
Re: Impact of forest fire smoke on fruit for distilling
We have had severe bushfire smoke damage in wine in this district from time to time. And the wine is awful. I have made brandy (not sure if it is Good brandy but I like it) from unsaleable wine both red and white. But I can't remember if any of that was smoke damaged. Renkoekk's comment was interest...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:39 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: cheers all
- Replies: 11
- Views: 660
Re: cheers all
Miss you, goo.
Geoff
Geoff
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: my first link added
- Replies: 8
- Views: 526
Re: my first link added
What is a comp function?
From an old member.
Geoff
From an old member.
Geoff
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Pears and natureal yeast
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1070
Re: Pears and natureal yeast
I've had this theory that when God made fruit trees she arranged for a suitable yeast on the outside of each variety of fruit.
Geoff
Geoff
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Methanol and foreshots in the neutral spirit bought in a supermarket ?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3541
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Downtime
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16319
Re: Downtime
Thanks,
It was really slow for me and I was blaming Telstra (my provider).
I had been spending hours deleting old stuff from the phone I (literally) inherited from my wife.
So much that I thought they had put me on a go-slow.
Thanks, Uncle, for everything.
Geoff
It was really slow for me and I was blaming Telstra (my provider).
I had been spending hours deleting old stuff from the phone I (literally) inherited from my wife.
So much that I thought they had put me on a go-slow.
Thanks, Uncle, for everything.
Geoff
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: 100 ways to cool your condenser...according to ChatGPT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 761
Re: 100 ways to cool your condenser...according to ChatGPT
But I didn't read it all either I doubt that many will ......its hardly an asset to the forum. There are plenty of simple ways know to work perfectly well, without trying to reinvent the wheel. Okay, I didn't either. Read it all. But I think it is maybe an asset to the forum. It gives an idea what ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Stills and still building information
- Topic: Advice for my first still setup
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3516
Re: Advice for my first still setup
Salt Must Flow wrote, 'I like having 4 swivelling casters attached to my boilers which makes it super convenient to be able to roll them around very easily.'
Three castors can handle an uneven floor better.
Geoff
Three castors can handle an uneven floor better.
Geoff
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 4:18 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hi from Brisbane
- Replies: 6
- Views: 337
Re: Hi from Brisbane
And welcome from Northern Victoria.
Geoff
Geoff