My bourbon makes me crap!?

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vault13
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My bourbon makes me crap!?

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Yes indeed, my hooch makes me and some people that have had a good session on it crap! I used to add a little glycerin to smooth out the bourbon but after some research I discovered that glycerin can irritate a mucus gland in your ass so I swapped over to glucose only to find that it settles on the bottom of the bottle and dosnt look very good.
I now dont use anything to smooth the spirit and allow grandfather time to do a little smoothing but as my skills have improved a lot since I started and the final product gets better and better with every batch. I just do a plain Ol sugar wash.

I have an LM fractioning reflux still and I end up with 95% every time. I discard 150ml of foreshots per 20L of wash just to be sure. I collect the next 14% as heads and the last 14% as tails and I still carbon filter after that only because I have access to as much top quality carbon as I want for free.

There is no hint at all of nasties in my bourbon and the first two batches I made without using glycerin or glucos have still made people shit the next day....evil evil bowl spraying sessions :twisted:

So what on earth could be causing this!??

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