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- Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:30 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Filtering after aging with Oak
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1971
Re: Filtering after aging with Oak
what was the additional flavoring?
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:18 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: reading the measuring stick
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1435
Re: reading the measuring stick
+1bellybuster wrote:even with thrown off readings due to solids a hydrometer can still tell you when a ferment is no longer fermenting. Same readings over a couple few days is no longer fermenting
- Fri May 22, 2015 7:25 am
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Check out my funky dunder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1781
Re: Check out my funky dunder
wait a couple of years...mine smells like I put a body in there
- Fri May 22, 2015 7:20 am
- Forum: Mashing, fermenting, flavoring and aging related hardware
- Topic: question about your "larger" fermenters
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3294
Re: question about your "larger" fermenters
I have a 3 gal pot I use to transfer to 5 gal bucket then siphon through a grain bag to catch floaters. 55 gal plastic drum 15.5 gal boiler.
- Fri May 22, 2015 6:54 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Fermenting with raw honey
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3216
Re: Fermenting with raw honey
I would do an uj or whatever you like and get the ferment going good and add 2 gallons of your "mead". I have recovered a lot of messed up washes this way. stalled ferments, what the heck happened, was that 5 or 25 pounds of sugar I put in
- Fri May 22, 2015 6:22 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: bottling gin with white spots in the walls of the bottle
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1641
Re: bottling gin with white spots in the walls of the bottle
stick it in the freezer then filter.
- Fri May 22, 2015 6:16 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: 1st run
- Replies: 5
- Views: 749
Re: 1st run
don't forget to do another fores/heads cut
- Fri May 22, 2015 6:11 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Cloudiness
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1182
Re: Cloudiness
could be water hardness coming out of solution then with the higher temp going back
- Fri May 22, 2015 6:08 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Mash Rookie
- Replies: 84
- Views: 31856
Re: Mash Rookie
MR is an innovator an artist and a boundary pusher. His posts and ideas are missed.
- Tue May 19, 2015 7:34 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: You know you are a Shiner when…
- Replies: 365
- Views: 48098
Re: You know you are a Shiner when…
you try to fix a hole in your steel mower deck and all you have is copper laying around
- Tue May 19, 2015 12:42 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: complex sugar shine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1108
Re: complex sugar shine
if you make beer using all grain I would keep to that. just use and all grain tried and true. if not then uncle jesse is the way to go
- Fri May 15, 2015 4:49 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: Cobalt Blue Foreshots- First run
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1463
Re: Cobalt Blue Foreshots- First run
Do another cleaning run
- Mon May 11, 2015 9:08 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Tried a new AG Rye Bourbon Recipe yesterday
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4342
- Sun May 10, 2015 9:18 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: Long time lurker recipe question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1699
Re: Long time lurker recipe question
you are kinda mixing 2 way of making likker. mash and wash. I don't know what the math is if those numbers will work or not. but being a brewer you should know. save the sugar for a "gumball" like wash.http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=48126 there should be enough nut...
- Sun May 10, 2015 4:46 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: 50L Keg with Pot and Reflux Appatures
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2753
Re: 50L Keg with Pot and Reflux Appatures
had a couple of epic fails with rum and all grain and took a breakNZChris wrote:LOL. This from someone who didn't post last year...ipee7ABV wrote:not much of a talker are you? 3 posts in 5 years
- Sun May 10, 2015 4:43 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: 50L Keg with Pot and Reflux Appatures
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2753
Re: 50L Keg with Pot and Reflux Appatures
no problem here. one thing nice about this site is you don't need to post to get access to great info.stangas wrote:Is that a problem.. I haven't needed this forum for 5 years.. I prefer to play in my shed n brew.. But if I'm not welcome I can disappear again
I have built a house and had kids in that time
- Sun May 10, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Panty Dropper issues
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2830
Re: Panty Dropper issues
+1bearriver wrote:After 6 months my fruit flavored stuff changes for the worse.
- Fri May 08, 2015 8:06 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: I Just Broke a JAR
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2916
Re: I Just Broke a JAR
Just be glad you lost yours in the garage. I lost an entire fifth of Boka'd Gerber... In the kitchen. Talk about a pain to clean up. You have to get every glass splinter. Not to mention it was in a Bulleit bourbon bottle, my only one. I loved the bottle, but not enough to justify spending for anoth...
- Fri May 08, 2015 7:55 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: 50L Keg with Pot and Reflux Appatures
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2753
Re: 50L Keg with Pot and Reflux Appatures
not much of a talker are you? 3 posts in 5 years
- Fri May 08, 2015 7:48 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: My cuts, re-distillations and blend usage.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 964
Re: My cuts, re-distillations and blend usage.
I don't think you said if you were trying to get a neutral or flavored. if your trying for a neutral which I think would be good for your drinks try and slow the run down a bit. when I run too hard the output drops like your numbers. you can always stop and reflux for a wile to keep numbers high. on...
- Mon May 04, 2015 5:01 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Oak and whiskey
- Replies: 190
- Views: 71682
Re: Oak and whiskey
Isn't end grain avoided because of the tanins ? A barrel has very little if any and grain exposure. I like my staves long and thin . 1/2 x 1/2 x 6 seems to be a nice size. I have stoped toasting and gone for exterior char only just like a barrel would be. Not saying I'm right or anyone else is wron...
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:00 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Why not
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2467
Re: Why not
Goes great with Hákarl !! Hákarl is traditionally prepared by gutting and beheading a Greenland or basking shark and placing it in a shallow hole dug in gravelly sand, with the now cleaned cavity resting on a small mound of sand. The shark is then covered with sand and gravel, and stones are placed...
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:25 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Where is my instant gratification?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1902
Re: Where is my instant gratification?
[quote="Swedish Pride"] I take fores of each spirit run just to make the low wines of higher quality quote] I'm not sure what this for sure. I remove all heads from my runs. I find they don't go away and just accumulate. I keep my low wines for a alcohol boost or a spirit run but always re...
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Noisy Stripping Run
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1920
Re: Noisy Stripping Run
how big is your output? product can seal the whole end like pouring beer out of a bottle creating a gurgling sound.
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:20 pm
- Forum: Safety and Related Issues
- Topic: Maintaining a still?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1278
Re: Maintaining a still?
twice a year i do a vinegar run
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:11 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Time to try Again...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 720
Re: Time to try Again...
might want to check out rule number 8. not sure what you have going there http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =35&t=5090
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:50 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: natural fermenter heating
- Replies: 1
- Views: 453
Re: natural fermenter heating
be careful temps in a compost can reach 150*f.
- Mon May 20, 2013 6:00 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: How much molasses?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5038
Re: How much molasses?
start with brown sugar. then the next wash add 1 quart of molasses to your sugar. then on the next wash add 2 quarts............see what you like the best
- Mon May 20, 2013 5:48 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Proof Hydrometer Questions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1485
Re: Proof Hydrometer Questions
i had 150 ml of 87% at 85f. i let it cool to 60 and it only dropped 4-5%. i think it dropped a distance so if started at 20% it might have dropped to 5% because those numbers are closer.
- Mon May 20, 2013 4:17 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: First fermentation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1844
Re: First fermentation
i have 1.5 hour warm up then 4 hour run. when refluxing a siprit run its 12 hours for 5 gal