Transporting a grain mash

[alyeomans]

Circumstances have meant that my wife will not let me distil at home. But all is not lost as I can distil at work where my boss is understanding and is happy to tax the output.

I can handle sugar washes by fermenting at work but grain washes have the problem where I cannot lauter at work and it is purely a home job due to equipment etc.

So i need to transport my mash on a 40 minute drive but at what stage should this be done: once i've lautered, once it has finished fermenting or once in the secondary bucket?

I was thinking that once fermented the staling from oxidization is not an issue if I distil soon after transport.

Hoping for some comments on this.

Thanks
Al

[blind drunk]

Once it's finished and ready to distil. May as well do as much as you can in your comfort zone. Maybe use a plastic carboy filled up to lessen the sloshing. Or those good buckets with the snap tight lids. That's what I'd do. Also, you might get a better taxation rate than if you do it all at work

[rad14701]

Check Craigslist for a new and improved wife...

[fullhouse]

+1 RAD!

altho i must add my wife would not let me still in the house either...she made me take 1/2 the income tax return and build a mancave out in the back yard... .....

[Prairiepiss]

Check Craigslist for a new and improved wife...

That's what I was thinking.

+1 what BD said too.

[alyeomans]

Great ideas all round and would love a man cave. Just checked Rad no exchange wife ads.

If all else fails I have a couple of 20 litre distilled water containers with lids that will be good.

[DFitz]

The wife won't let me distill at home yet either.
Suits me fine cause I work away from home for weeks at a time. I use my motor home for work and distilling. After all, it's a recreation vehicle right?

[alyeomans]

So transport was successful. Ended up with 17L in each container so topped up the remaining 3L with tap water.

As the lids were on there was a bit of pressure build up from residual fermentation and forced some wash out the tap and seal so I now have a nice sour malty smell inhabiting the car.

Am happy as they stripped to 8 litres at 40%.

Al

[Gowiththeflow]

So to confirm. You simply added tap water to top off your for transport. Adding the water meant a longer burn time but with no other malfunctions...Thanks for the post. Always wondered about this topic. Have a "friend" a ways away. Ready to go now!

[alyeomans]

Hi Gowiththeflow

Yes, just topped off with tap water so it would not slosh around in the top of the container. To strip, my pot still will output at 4 litres per hour at full blast so the extra water did not affect the time much. As it was only stripping I was not concerned with cuts, so yes all went as expected.

The only thing to watch is residual fermentation pressuring the sealed container and forcing the wort out.