What'd ya'll make today?

[Mr.Brown]

Cheers fullhouse, i'm also strpping sweet feed and sipping on some as i type ! Did a fients run today also, been a long day

[retlaw]

started up a batch of the old boys recipe,

100L water
25Kg sugar
90g yeast (bulk food store)
450g bran
2kg rye, ( grade "A", cracked, unmalted, uncooked)
2 tablets beano ( not in old recipe)

that was two days ago,
smells super great and going off like a firecracker,
hardly wait to cook,
first have to cook off 160L of birdwatcher,
few more days to go there,

[RumRaider]

today I'll try to ferment pineaples and oranges. I am not convinced that fermenting fruits gives better taste than maceration...

Ditto,I guess any discussions will lead to the conclusion that "whatever tastes best to you is what's best" but, I'm thinking fruit fermentation is a lot of trouble/expense when a sugar wash and maceration is going to give you all the fruit flavor you want.

[frozenthunderbolt]

Marmalade wine - 4-5 jars of homemade marmalade from the house we moved into + 2 1/2 empty bottles of lime cordial concentrate topped up to about 4-5 L and added bakers yeast - it's going like stink! huge Krausen. I'm amazed given the lack of nutrients i thought would be there.
If it's no good as a wine i'll use it for a gin distillation to get my citrus flavour - still another 30 odd jars of marmalade there to be used if i need more!

[kiwistiller]

chuck in a bit of pectinase if you haven't already to deal with the marmalade

[frozenthunderbolt]

chuck in a bit of pectinase if you haven't already to deal with the marmalade

Yep - i'l try without this time and see just how cloudy the pectin makes it. That gives me a great excuse to then distill a test batch (when i wouldn't want pectin as it would create more methanol no?) Then if the distillate is crap and the wine is cloudy but tasty i can do subsequent batches with the pectinase

[Coyote]

I made a mess. . . .

[blind drunk]

Did a spirit run with a mix of rum and sugar head low wines. I accidentally mixed the two a while back. Good yield, good taste, but what is it ...

Long time coming and it felt good. Put me in the right mood.

[LWTCS]

It is likker
Enjoy Sir

[frozenthunderbolt]

doin a strip run on gen 7 rum after this i'll combine all generations with the 2-3 gal of aged (but sadly unmolded dunder w/ possible lactic infection) and do a final spirit run

[blind drunk]

doin a strip run on gen 7 rum after this i'll combine all generations with the 2-3 gal of aged (but sadly unmolded dunder w/ possible lactic infection) and do a final spirit run

Let us know how you like the lactic notes in your final distillate.

[RumBrewer]

Well, I'm running gen 1 + 2 (just saved 1 in a carboy) of sweet mash corn whiskey. So I guess it's like gen 1 and 1.5. Anyway, backset to be added and will makes me some sour mash in the near future.