I often take a hip flask to my local pub for my drinking mates to sample, not always the same product. The smoothness and so little burn are often commented on.
Today, I took freshly caught and smoked fish. A lot of people tried it and loved it.
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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: Drinks and Drinking
- Topic: Affirmation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 59
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: What Not To Use/Do
- Topic: Aquarium Heater Danger
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8451
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: ? on tails
- Replies: 23
- Views: 412
Re: ? on tails
I have no idea what the ABV at the spout is when I shut down. If I've measured it lately, I haven't recorded it. I'm sure I would have been watching it when I was a noob.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Old wine - brandy or spirit?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 138
Re: Old wine - brandy or spirit?
Oxidized and vinegar are not the same thing.
I have aged product in my drinks cabinet that is oxidized but is not vinegar.
I have aged vinegar in my pantry that is oxidized.
I have aged product in my drinks cabinet that is oxidized but is not vinegar.
I have aged vinegar in my pantry that is oxidized.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Old wine - brandy or spirit?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 138
Re: Old wine - brandy or spirit?
Oxidized wine does have it's uses, so check that it doesn't have an interesting use before you distill all of it.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Old wine - brandy or spirit?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 138
Re: Old wine - brandy or spirit?
I've never distilled oxidized wine, but If I did, I would double distil it in the pot and if that didn't work out, then put it through the Boka.
The middle of the strips might tell you if it isn't worth a spirit run in the pot.
The middle of the strips might tell you if it isn't worth a spirit run in the pot.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:26 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Questions about a YouTube rum video
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Re: Questions about a YouTube rum video
I just remembered that Absinthe uses both distillation and infusion, so I've successfully combined both methods every year for quite a few years.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Questions about a YouTube rum video
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Re: Questions about a YouTube rum video
Try both. I've had success with both methods, sometimes when creating one product.Steve Broady wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:56 pm I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts (or even taste the results of) infusion vs. redistillation.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Wash or dunder
- Replies: 10
- Views: 183
Re: Wash or dunder
I double distill everything but I don't want to loose any flavor. What loses flavor is not keeping enough Low Wines from the stripping runs and being too aggressive with heads and tails cuts on the spirit run. Choose your cuts by tasting prospective blends rather than trying to guess what effect in...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Questions about a YouTube rum video
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Re: Questions about a YouTube rum video
Those cuts were done by newbies doing OEG style experiments so don't take much notice of them. I quite often return the foreshot to the collection jug when doing this type of experiment. Taste it. Heads and foreshots are arbitrary cuts made by distillers for whatever reasons they feel are necessary....
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: Chemical smell
- Replies: 21
- Views: 340
Re: Chemical smell
A problem with expanded PTFE is that it has poor memory. It will seal well the first time you use it but may fail to seal for subsequent uses, especially if there are slight flaws in the mating surfaces and you don't manage to match them up perfectly each time.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Wash or dunder
- Replies: 10
- Views: 183
Re: Wash or dunder
There is no correct answer as you can use both wash and dunder to lower the proof. 100 proof, (50% abv), for low wines is very high unless you are making a light flavored rum. You can strip until you have the proof you want rather than adding wash, dunder or water. Keep good records to refer to for ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: ? on tails
- Replies: 23
- Views: 412
Re: ? on tails
Thats about as low as I can be bothered going . Never seen any improvement stripping down lower . One of the advantages of running a preheater is that much of the time and energy expended running deep strips is recovered by the preheater, so the incentive to stop stripping while there is minimal et...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: ? on tails
- Replies: 23
- Views: 412
Re: ? on tails
Depends what I'm making. 24% for aged with lots of flavor, 35% for light, or white rums. If emulating a rum from a particular distillery, whatever they run to. I don't really have go-to recipes and methods and like to spend time researching to get a pretty good idea of what I intend to do before put...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: ? on tails
- Replies: 23
- Views: 412
Re: ? on tails
My rum strips are always cloudy.
Watch the abv of the collection jar, shut down when you reach your target.
Watch the abv of the collection jar, shut down when you reach your target.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 20
- Views: 374
Re: White Rum flavour too strong
Most of the commercial rums you have ever tasted will have been blends, I doubt I've ever tasted a single batch rum from a commercial distiller. Commercials don't blend in the fermenter, they blend later, usually after aging. If you search the websites of distillers who make products that you really...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 20
- Views: 374
Re: White Rum flavour too strong
After doing my research, I understood that doing singles would be a mugs game, so I've never bothered trying it. My first fermenter was three times the volume of my still and is still my most used fermenter over thirty years later.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 20
- Views: 374
Re: White Rum flavour too strong
just add neutral. Ever tried making decent Neutral with an air still Chris ? could easily make it worse than it already is. No, because I've always had a larger still, but I do have a lot of experience with smaller pot stills than an air still. The main quality problem with air stills is the greed ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Has your thumper ever completely filled up?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6220
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: And so it begins... from maguey to mescal
- Replies: 20
- Views: 806
Re: And so it begins... from maguey to mescal
If you have a Brix refractometer, a reading from a squeezed drop would be interesting.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 20
- Views: 374
Re: White Rum flavour too strong
You're asking for trouble by trying to make rum in a single pass with a simple pot still.
That said, you don't have to re-run it to tame it, just add neutral.
That said, you don't have to re-run it to tame it, just add neutral.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Sacrificial alcohol run
- Replies: 4
- Views: 121
Re: Sacrificial alcohol run
I don't even keep it for fire starter. It looks and smells like perfectly good alcohol and some idiot might find it and drink it or add it to perfectly good product. I store mine in a can in the garden with a burning rag in it.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: first stripping run down
- Replies: 3
- Views: 112
Re: first stripping run down
Using a thumper, you should be able to make barrel proof spirit in one run, no need to strip. I added the hearts from the vodka (sac run) in the thumper hoping it would cool it down.... Bad move. It's called a sacrificial run because it is contaminated and possibly toxic and should be thrown away im...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: how long can wash sit out before it goes bad
- Replies: 1
- Views: 83
Re: how long can wash sit out before it goes bad
Not much info to go on. SS or copper?
To avoid burn on, agitate before restarting if there are any solids in the wash.
Thumper too small, over filled, running too slow with no insulation???
To avoid burn on, agitate before restarting if there are any solids in the wash.
Thumper too small, over filled, running too slow with no insulation???
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Caution Plastics envolved making Raicilla
- Replies: 14
- Views: 423
Re: Caution Plastics envolved making Raicilla
If it's only in plastic for a few days and I don't want to use it for my daily tipple I wouldn't worry about it.
If the distiller next door ran into glass or SS, I would buy his.
If the distiller next door ran into glass or SS, I would buy his.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: New member from New Zealand
- Replies: 12
- Views: 274
Re: New member from New Zealand
Firstly, the **Welcome Center** rapidly gets unfriendly if you start asking for advice on it, so I advise you to start another thread elsewhere. NZ Scrap metal dealers copper bins often look they contain at least one kitset still to me. Have a good idea of what you are shopping for before you tour t...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: different box type cereals
- Replies: 2
- Views: 105
Re: different box type cereals
I’ve only done it with a random selection of breakfast cereals left behind by visitors. With 8 years on oak it’s very nice but there’s not much left.
They are unlikely to have preservatives in them. If you like the flavor try it.
They are unlikely to have preservatives in them. If you like the flavor try it.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: And so it begins... from maguey to mescal
- Replies: 20
- Views: 806
Re: And so it begins... from maguey to mescal
I wouldn't take his word on the saran wrap without checking. I suspect 350F is way over its useful maximum.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: And so it begins... from maguey to mescal
- Replies: 20
- Views: 806
Re: And so it begins... from maguey to mescal
Nice score.
Temperatures, times, numbers from conversion etc. will all be appreciated if you collect them.
Temperatures, times, numbers from conversion etc. will all be appreciated if you collect them.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Blue berry Rye Whisky
- Replies: 4
- Views: 256
Re: Blue berry Rye Whisky
I would make the whisky first, then run some of the finished heart cut through the berries to make a geist to blend with some of the whisky to get an intensity I like.