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by bastardbrewer
Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:52 pm
Forum: Beer, and Wine
Topic: Ginger Beer Soda
Replies: 26
Views: 5327

Re: Ginger Beer Soda

I like making my own Gingerbug, that way no yeast is required. Slice and cut fine 28 gram of ginger, keep the skin on as ginger beasties like this. Add to a 1 ltr or so glass jar, add 28 gram of sugar too. Stir well. Keep at a nice warm temp, say 30 degrees. Boiler cupboard is perfect. Then, for the...
by bastardbrewer
Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:17 am
Forum: Beer, and Wine
Topic: Rice wine, anyone?
Replies: 10
Views: 4447

Re: Rice wine, anyone?

I got one on the stove now. Any glutinous rice will do, but obviously will make or break the flavor. Im boiling the rice, and using Sebstar HTL at 83 ish celcius then Sebstar GL at 62 ish celsius, both for at least 2 hrs at hose temps. Then dissolve with sugar, add 4 ltr good quality light white gra...
by bastardbrewer
Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:41 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties
Replies: 25
Views: 3241

Re: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties

Ya want a crisp vodka from a basic pot let is clear and strip to low wines, run low wines slowish to high wines and do rough cuts then run your high wines at a slow spirit run speed and do precision cuts. If you want a dead neutral from a basic pot still marbles work best, fill ya mouth full of em ...
by bastardbrewer
Wed Jun 24, 2020 2:30 am
Forum: Flavoring and Aging
Topic: Aging Spirits in Bamboo Wood
Replies: 32
Views: 4179

Re: Aging Spirits in Bamboo Wood

I can buy online oak/ maple/ apple chips for a premium, but the ones used for BBQ (the ones used for brewing can get confiscated in customs. I pick up you're in the middle east? If you are where I think you are (Saudi?), use a site called Desertcart, they deliver in most places in the middle east a...
by bastardbrewer
Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:08 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties
Replies: 25
Views: 3241

Re: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties

And I appreciate that, really do. And I honestly thought I provided all that was required, and when you old hands stated what was missing I provided promptly in the hop of receiving more feedback, not to be called out on already knowing the answer. Taking your suggestion on board, guess I was just a...
by bastardbrewer
Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:28 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties
Replies: 25
Views: 3241

Re: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties

well Stillerboy and still stirrin, thanks for that piece of positive criticism. But actually i didnt know what the answer was, i didnt know if it was algae, mold or something else, just that it was a rum tails jar what i was showing in the picture and that my bottles (of which i couldnt share a pic ...
by bastardbrewer
Mon Jun 08, 2020 11:38 pm
Forum: My First .....
Topic: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties
Replies: 25
Views: 3241

Re: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties

Thanks folks, Pope - It was normal water from a 19l / 5G bottle, brand Nestle. Otis - I do use DAP in unmeasured amounts, so this could have contributed. It's definitely got a blue tint to it. Stillerboy & NZChris - The so called Neutral came from a stripped sugarwash followed by the usual spiri...
by bastardbrewer
Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:33 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties
Replies: 25
Views: 3241

Re: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties

Well shit . You ain't gonna get Neutral from a pot still ... sorry ..thats just the reality . Point well noted, thanks. But what are the floaties? "Fusels" falling out of suspension when the proof drops. Or something in your water. Or dirty jars. I'll read up on those fusels. Funny thing ...
by bastardbrewer
Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:31 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties
Replies: 25
Views: 3241

Re: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties

Yummyrum wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:18 am Well shit . You ain't gonna get Neutral from a pot still ... sorry ..thats just the reality .
Point well noted, thanks.

But what are the floaties?
by bastardbrewer
Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:11 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: 40% neutral gone off? Got floaties
Replies: 25
Views: 3241

40% neutral gone off? Got floaties

Hi all, I'm troubled. I have build up a bit of stock of neutral from my T-500 copper dome potstill, all sugarwashes and was shocked to see a couple of my latest bottles (maybe 3 weeks old) of neutral containing sort of white greenish "snowflakes" floating in it, almost a moldy or algae kin...
by bastardbrewer
Sun May 24, 2020 12:31 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Hook Rum
Replies: 351
Views: 200360

Re: Hook Rum

OK, so I had a guys get together watching Bundesliga as it's the only football league that started, and decided to bring my collection of rums, consisting of 1. A jamaican rum flavored neutral, 2. Buccaneer Bobs silver, 3. Buccaneer Bobs gold and 4. Hook Rum. Obviously the flavored stuff is least......
by bastardbrewer
Sun May 24, 2020 12:20 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Cornflakes whiskey
Replies: 1031
Views: 261788

Re: Cornflakes whiskey

Had some of this at 2 months old, aged on some oak. Heaps of corny flavor, not quite the whiskey I know from living in Scotland, but very smooth, corny, earthy and oaky and just pleasant overall. Im glad it developed some more nose, as that was missing a bit initially. Probably the oak contributed t...
by bastardbrewer
Sun May 17, 2020 12:53 am
Forum: Sugar
Topic: What is the Best rum from a brown sugar wash and reflux still
Replies: 29
Views: 4205

Re: What is the Best rum from a brown sugar wash and reflux still

So I really appreciate the responses. I made a TPW, ran it through a carbon filtre and did the following. Still spirits jamacian dark rum essence and aged on bourbon staves for 3 months... and was not that good. 3/5 Seabeast (Forgot who makes it) supposed to be a kraken...and was not that good. 2/5...
by bastardbrewer
Thu May 14, 2020 1:29 am
Forum: Sugar
Topic: What is the Best rum from a brown sugar wash and reflux still
Replies: 29
Views: 4205

Re: What is the Best rum from a brown sugar wash and reflux still

Agree with Saltbush. I have a T500 too, but use the copper dome and condensor for flavourfull spirits like rum and whiskey which works fine. I find the Still spirits flavoring ok, however you cannot compare it to a proper rum wash see tried and true recipes and make sure to use molasses. you'll not ...
by bastardbrewer
Wed May 13, 2020 1:21 am
Forum: Sugar
Topic: Ph crashes in sugar washes
Replies: 97
Views: 19167

Re: Ph crashes in sugar washes

Thanks gents, it is ordinary CC in granular shape form a reputable brewing equipment distributor. I fill till 25 liter / 5g in a 30 liter / 6g bucket. Havent used fermcap before... will look into it. So next time i'll just have to only fill till 23ltr or so or use that fermcap... and the list of add...
by bastardbrewer
Fri May 08, 2020 9:39 pm
Forum: Sugar
Topic: Ph crashes in sugar washes
Replies: 97
Views: 19167

Re: Ph crashes in sugar washes

It's done it again, big foam like bubbles bubbling right out the waterlock hole, filling the lid and the floor of the cupboard. Can't help but feel its a reaction between the CC, yeast and perhaps the leftover rice that didnt get broken down fully by the sebstar products. Don't know what else it cou...
by bastardbrewer
Wed May 06, 2020 12:55 am
Forum: Sugar
Topic: Ph crashes in sugar washes
Replies: 97
Views: 19167

Re: Ph crashes in sugar washes

Nice one bluefish that helped. first put in 4gr citric acid and 4gr CC, then waited a bit and pitched yeast. Now next morning it still crashed to 3.2 though, so had to add even more CC to get it above 4. the citric acid and CC didnt seem to buffer at all. Not sure what happened there. So far so good...
by bastardbrewer
Tue May 05, 2020 1:02 am
Forum: Sugar
Topic: Ph crashes in sugar washes
Replies: 97
Views: 19167

Re: Ph crashes in sugar washes

Glad I found this post. Reading on PH initially and having bought a PH meter I stopped adding citric acid to my wash as I wanted to keep PH at about 5.0, only to find it at 3.3 next morning. Then adding calcium carbonate to reach 4.5 but had horrible foam overs in the hours and day after. It was a l...
by bastardbrewer
Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:21 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Buccaneer Bob's Silver, Gold, and Black Rum Recipe
Replies: 511
Views: 179362

Re: Buccaneer Bob's Silver, Gold, and Black Rum Recipe

So both fermenters read 0.998 on day 8 (5 days after adding the sugar) so suggests its ready to strip, however it still got that milky shine through it from the yeast and or yeast trub. There is also a layer of yeast at the bottom of course. Should i run it as the esters will be nice and high now, o...
by bastardbrewer
Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:56 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Cornflakes whiskey
Replies: 1031
Views: 261788

Re: Cornflakes whiskey

Two things you could consider in order to both increase yield and flavor: 1. Since your overal ABV after the finishing run is pretty high, maybe not strip all the cornflakes ferment in to low wines, but keep a few liters to dilute your next low wines batch with, before you do the next finishing run...
by bastardbrewer
Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:06 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Buccaneer Bob's Silver, Gold, and Black Rum Recipe
Replies: 511
Views: 179362

Re: Buccaneer Bob's Silver, Gold, and Black Rum Recipe

Got 2x 6gallon fermenters on, added the sugar this morning and they are both bubbling away again. Got a really good feeling about this. Great idea to keep the dunder for flavoring and colouring. Did a hook rum before which i aged on oak and got a beautiful gold colour on it, but kept a bit too many ...
by bastardbrewer
Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:48 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: Couple of Eureka's
Replies: 7
Views: 1429

Couple of Eureka's

So recently I made a couple of changes in my equipment and they made a huge impact to the quantity and quality of my products. I purchased a T-500 with reflux column a year ago and did plenty of sugarwashes and breakfast grain washes for wodkas, most came out ok but never really very clean or good, ...
by bastardbrewer
Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:35 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Cornflakes whiskey
Replies: 1031
Views: 261788

Re: Cornflakes whiskey

Lekker recept Odin! (nice recipe Odin!) I ran sugarwashes with maybe 150gr. of flakes or cheerios before, but love this Whiskey recipe. After plenty of sugarwashes that I usually flavour and a large rum run I wanted something else so decided to give this a bash. Never had a wash stall before (except...
by bastardbrewer
Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:15 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: First Rum run details
Replies: 27
Views: 4212

Re: First Rum run details

Nice one guys - think ill stick to Molasses with white sugar to save cost then. Wozza, glad your raw sugar only wash and product turned out nice... was it rummy enough to your liking though?
by bastardbrewer
Sat Feb 01, 2020 9:16 pm
Forum: My First .....
Topic: First Rum run details
Replies: 27
Views: 4212

Re: First Rum run details

Mendel, I used Sugar in the raw as I used Hook Rum as base recipe, which calls for raw sugar and I assumed sugar in the raw was just that. I did swop out blackstrap molasses for fancy molasses, all I could get here. Struggle to get panela sugar here too, only 500 grams for around £6,- and thats too ...
by bastardbrewer
Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:29 pm
Forum: My First .....
Topic: First Rum run details
Replies: 27
Views: 4212

Re: First Rum run details

See the Nuclear Whiskey thread and the 20 years in 6 days thread if you're in a hurry. I read it just now and think it's an amazing process that hopefully one day becomes more accessible to the likes of me, but as I dont have a proprietary chemical reactor to enforce phenol, benzoic acid, and vanil...
by bastardbrewer
Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:08 am
Forum: My First .....
Topic: First spirit run...
Replies: 26
Views: 3213

Re: First spirit run...

It's been a long time since I haven't gotten at least a 50% hearts cuts on any spirit. Your hearts cut will depend a lot on how well your ferment goes. The ferment to me is the most important part of the process where your good and bad flavors come into play. Temps, pH, proper nutrients added at pr...
by bastardbrewer
Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:50 pm
Forum: My First .....
Topic: First spirit run...
Replies: 26
Views: 3213

Re: First spirit run...

Wow thats a lot of hearts / little heads? Will you be aging it for a long time? I had my first pot still result from molasses but only kept about 1/3 for hearts. I know, different wash alltogether... were jars 3 and 4 not very sharp / stingy on the palate? Asking because on my pot still they are...a...
by bastardbrewer
Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:33 am
Forum: Flavoring and Aging
Topic: Scotch Essence
Replies: 8
Views: 10744

Re: Scotch Essence

Tried Prestige rum essence - not nice at all... Unibrew essences are my favorite so far.
by bastardbrewer
Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:48 pm
Forum: Flavoring and Aging
Topic: Drambui
Replies: 10
Views: 2359

Re: Drambui

I had always thought it had heather in it somewhere...maybe it does but the taste is so slight it doesn't register with most drinkers. Rusty Nail is one of my fav drinks so I'll probably be trying out all these recipes at some point with my AG "scotch" base. second that (although it is a ...