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Watered to 40% or 50% or so. I am doing this blind as my alcometer broke. Taste is a bit to strong but fairly clean. Going without thermometer and alcometer really helps pinpoint tails transitions as you have to do a heck of a lot of smelling and tasting. That's also tough with gin because the fragr...

finally distilled this - 3 times to get a pretty neutral base to which I added gin botanicals, soaked overnight, then distilled. pretty decent results.

thanks for the tips guys.

I just distilled this gin: juniper 100g coriander 27g angelica, cassia, liquorice, grains of paradise, cubeb 50g orange and lemon peel, ginger, orris root, cardamon, nutmeg 5g in 4.5-5L gin wash (80% pure 3x distilled through pot still) taste is OK, hard to tell really, I am not a big gin fan it alw...

I still have the 78% raisin brandy, about 750ml of it. I never got around to making another batch of wine, so no port yet. One day though.

Was and is in glass.

No it was just sugar and turbo yeast, enough for about 11 or 12% alcohol.

Hi Everyone I havent been stilling much lately but I decided to make some gin out of a sugar wash and I so far am only as far as the end of the fermentation stage. Thats the problem. This stuff finished fermenting over a month ago and has been sitting in the same carboys since. I haven't found time ...

good point. too bad ive already got it heating up in the still. oh well. ill do my best.

thanks for the reply kiwi. yeah i agree something is amiss with my numbers as the wash was definitely not 23%!!! I thought it would be about 16%. I don't have a hydrometer at the moment (just an alcoholmeter, which may be a bit off, too) Anyway it was high enough that its not "ideal". Howe...

ps i wouldnt have been able to do any of it without help and wisdom from this here forum! thanks

hi all just wanted to commemorate my 1 year Likker Makin' Anniersary. It was actually a year and a month ago when I made my first shitty batch of moonshine by distilling some cheap Vermouth using a 2L kettle. A lot has happened since then. Now I am tinkering with an all natural gin recipe on my 58L ...

hey all heres my gin experience so far. -bought $50 worth of herbs and botanicals, according to the ones Bombay Saphire uses. I chose this only because they publish the ingredients. -ferment 2 carboys of sugar wash. one goes mental. see my "vinegar explosion" post about that. -distill 23L ...

im gonna post my gin recipe in a new thread

well thanks guys now i know about making sure things are liquid before adding them to a new batch. unfortunately i didn't check back on here to see your opinions before i tossed that whole batch, i was convinced it was vinegar. oh well. i suppose i could do it again, just so i can film it and show y...

i had 2 carboys fermenting sugar. as an experiment one had turbo yeast and the other had bakers yeast with yeast nutrient from the wine shop. they both started off ok, but the turbo one was done in 4 days and the bakers yeast kept plugging away for days. not surprising. not sure what exactly their y...

if you use the three piece kind with the vial-like center piece and the tubular housing it is vastly quieter than the 3 way coil thing with chambers. you know what i mean?

we are on the butter and whole milk train 100% over here.

i appreciate the info here too: http://www.westonaprice.org/Why-Butter-Is-Better.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

so im happy to say that this issue has finally been resolved (more or less) 4 days after getting our letter the landlords agreed to split the cost. the conversation was not pleasant but it did not descend into an argument and no other animosity was generated. now i can finally breathe easy. no big d...

interesting idea nightforce.

we gave them a letter early this week and have not heard from them since. makes us nervous.

latest thing: we have received an offer from LL to pay 70. less than their initial 85. dicks. anyway we can't decide if we should counter offer that we pay 100 (half of the cost minus 70) or simply tell them we wont pay a cent. its likely that they wont take us to the rental tribunal but even if the...

in this building built in early 20th century the main drain for the sinks (all stacked above each other) seems to be separate from the toilet/bathroom drain.

the block is gone now so that part is done. its just a matter of reaching an agreement with the landlord.

haha stillcrazy! i was thinking of changing my name, it is a admittedly a bit generic (no offense to your name tho!) also thanks to everyone for your encouraging words and opinions. last night was difficult. the plumber came, did the exact same thing i was doing (going down from my apartment) with t...

update i've been working on it all day to no avail. the big problem now is landlord issues. i was able to get a motorized snake down from my apartment and bring up a mass of hair and black grease and sludge, and i was about to send it down again, thinking i probably hit the block. but the landlord n...

i forgot to mention that last night the landlord called me a "big banana"
hmmmmmm

update, day two hands are blistered and cut from fighting with plungers and drain snakes. we were able to get the drain snake pretty far into the main pipe but seem to be unable to hit the actual blockage. landlord is renting a motorised unit to try to go from below. not very fun working with this g...

i posted a while ago about "quitting all-grain" due to the many hassles inherent in the process, especially in the area of spent grain disposal. i live in a small apartment in a dense city so its not easy to find a place for gallons and gallons of soggy grain. i didn't quite quit, though, ...

thats an awesome trick about the thumping, goose eye, but i suppose you would only need it if you didnt already leave enough headspace. neat.

wow that never occured to me but it is an awesome idea. swimming pool condenser. even in summer it would work.

awesome.

i second that

get a stock pot and some copper tubing. so easy and will meet your needs much better.

i had the same proble as pomiatta ...fake copper scrubbers. after a whisky run i forget to take them out to clean them. bad idea. they were rusted to the inside of my column! nasty nasty stuff. if its 6 scrubbers for a dollar in chinatown is NOT copper.