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- Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Type of yeast best for corn
- Replies: 18
- Views: 903
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Badmotivator Tribute Rum
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6523
Re: Badmotivator Tribute Rum
Filled the L1 with 65%
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: Looking for a good and easy Whiskey recipe
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1126
Re: Looking for a good and easy Whiskey recipe
I recommend a 100% cracked corn and Yellow Label Angel Yeast to dip your toes into all grain with a super easy method. No mashing is required.
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 739840
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Final distillation of the panela rum. All of the little figertip samples during the run have been heavy on caramel aroma, nice!
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: getting deeper kentucky notes
- Replies: 19
- Views: 881
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 739840
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Stripped a panela rum, cleaned out the fermentor and added 25lbs of milled oats and 55lbs of milled corn added 30 gallons of water and pitched YLAY
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Badmotivator Tribute Rum
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6523
Re: Badmotivator Tribute Rum
Finally stripping mine today. I used a bag of panela bought from Christopher, Fleishman's yeast, dead yeast from a prior rum ferment, and some seashells for buffering. The only difference with mine is that I'm stripping with a thumper that has a gallon of what was left in the thumper after a high es...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: confessions from a new stiller...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 731
Re: confessions from a new stiller...
The 8 gallon MileHi milk can was the first pot I bought, still have it for storing low wines! A very nice milk can, the head it came with was trash though.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Knockoff Cousin's Method for High Ester rum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 577
Re: Knockoff Cousin's Method for High Ester rum
Pretty neat. Could definitely use some warnings about that sulfuric acid tho. Shitll right mess ya up Yeah, I was hoping that all of the large brightly colored warning labels all over the packaging and the bottle itself would be enough for most adults here. But then again.... :lol: Small warning ad...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Knockoff Cousin's Method for High Ester rum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 577
Knockoff Cousin's Method for High Ester rum
This is how I made my slightly simplified Cousin's Method to make some seriously high ester rum at home. This is for anyone wondering how to make a crazy high ester rum based about 95% on the Cousin's Process, but a bit easier for home use. No dehydrating, no double retort. Not the full deal, but yo...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Thumper?
- Replies: 624
- Views: 265424
Re: Thumper?
Awesome! That must have been a heck of a large run! I'm getting 1.5 gallons of hearts from ~ 10 gallons in the boiler and 2 gallons in the thumper. That's because you're running a size that the community supports and is common. Because ... Juzsayn... 7 Gallons of hearts equates to a 45-60 Gallon Wa...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Hampden - high ester jamaican rum recipe
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1733
Re: Hampden - high ester jamaican rum recipe
I have done the Cousins method with a few tweaks for the smaller size of my little operation. I was amazed at how powerful it was! Absolutely incredibly high esters!! You can search my bio and find the thread, I made a few mistakes along the way but it all worked out in the end. Even just putting t...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 739840
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 739840
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Today I filled the 5 gallon barrel with high ester rum @ 67%, checked the FG of the panela ~1.008 ish. Going to give it a few more days before I check it again.
Nice, mine will also be going into an L1 barrel!
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:30 pm
- Forum: Meet & Mingle & Events
- Topic: PNW Meet and drink 2023
- Replies: 155
- Views: 12917
Re: PNW Meet and drink 2023
Just filled my BadMo that Chris generously gifted us with some high ester rum, not DOK level esters but very very high. Not sure if it will be ready for the next meetup, but it's reserved for a meetup only!
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Best yeast for a very grainy flavour?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1451
Re: Best yeast for a very grainy flavour?
I'll second it. YLAY gives almost zero yeast/fermentation flavor to my washes and spirits so all I taste is the grains.Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:09 am I'll nominate Yellow Lable for grainy, if the right grains are used.
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: ? on oats for "mouth feel"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1591
Re: ? on oats for "mouth feel"
de a lot of oat whiskeys using YLAY and can't get enough! I us I have mae rolled oats from the feed store. They have a huge hearts fraction too! Really?... I was looking at whole oats the other day when I was in TSC getting a bag of corn. I almost bought a bag, and passed thinking I had too much gr...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:26 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: ? on oats for "mouth feel"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1591
Re: ? on oats for "mouth feel"
I have made a lot of oat whiskeys using YLAY and can't get enough! I use rolled oats from the feed store. They have a huge hearts fraction too!
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:21 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: Help me fill a surprise Badmo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1159
Re: Help me fill a surprise Badmo
I'd do a 60/40 corn oats bourbon. I can't get enough oats in my whiskies!
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1063
Re: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
The calculator on Jesse's site is darn close to those numbers
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1063
Re: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
13%. I was playing with it just now. 1.4 gallons of the wine added to 3.6 gallons of the 85% rum will proof it down to 65% according to the chart.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 4:27 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1063
Re: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
The hydrometer did not work with the wine. I had my test tube with my hydrometer and rum in it, as I added more wine the proof was way off. I was able to get a ratio of wine to rum that I thought worked well, 1 part wine to 5 parts rum. The rum was the main show and wine was complementing it nicely....
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1063
Re: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
I went and bought a small amount of red wine, nothing crazy just a down the middle table wine, to experiment with tonight. I will be adding some rice whiskey I put in a barrel back in August to the rum, the whiskey is so bland it shouldn't change the rum flavor at all just add the barrel flavors. Ju...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: 26 gallon still build for running on solids
- Replies: 9
- Views: 982
Re: 26 gallon still build for running on solids
I don't understand, how are the elements not burned??
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:01 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Thumper Attachment Thingy for New Boiler
- Replies: 6
- Views: 687
Re: Thumper Attachment Thingy for New Boiler
And this design is perfect for that, the infinite height adjustment!
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Pot Still Head with Reflux and Thumper
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1244
Re: Pot Still Head with Reflux and Thumper
Thumpers do not put tails in hearts cuts! They will if you put the tails in the thumper. Think about why heads then hearts then tails come out in the order that they do on a normal run. Why in that order? What would mess it up?
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Pot Still Head with Reflux and Thumper
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1244
Re: Pot Still Head with Reflux and Thumper
If you like tails in all of your hearts jars, then go for it. But I don't run plates, I run a potstill with a thumper. I prefer my jars to be like any other run where heads come out first and then a long hearts fraction before the tails, so I put everything in order. Tails, mixed low wines, and wash...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:21 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1063
Re: Using red wine to lower proof before barreling
It will need a lot of dilution, currently it's at 85%, I'd like to have it around 65% before it goes into the barrel. I don't even have any red wine, so when I buy some I'll do a small sample and play with the % of wine to rum to see what I like.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:36 am
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Pot Still Head with Reflux and Thumper
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1244
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Pot Still Head with Reflux and Thumper
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1244
Re: Pot Still Head with Reflux and Thumper
Or.....have the potstill go to the thumper, then put the deflag with no plates or a few plates after the thumper but before the PC. Only put what has no tails into the thumper. Use high proof heads cuts from the previous batch, the first part of strip runs, or just high proof spirits or water or all...