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Sounds like it is time to get some more molasses and start again while this ages. Feed the dunder pit. Didn't realize white rum had so much work done to it. This was my first rum attempt and thought white would be a good starting point and once I had this settled I could fiddle with the flavoring in...

BD: Not too much better at full strength, and at mid to high 70's that is a lot to be drinking for me.

Ken: That makes sense based on the taste. Just a little sweetness and definitely mellowed a bit. Any idea how long they age it for? Trade secret likely.

I ran my first rum run a few months ago on my potstill. Fermented two carboys of molasses and water, stripped them each and then ran a combined spirit run with both strips...and wasn't happy with it. Tasted like a lot of smearing was going on and I had run it kinda fast. So I dumped all the cuts and...

Oops. I thought maybe the bitter ones would age out so I left them in, though I had captured most of them in one of the glasses of tails that I mixed back in. Most of the bitter stuff came out right after hearts then disappeared again for a while so I should have just pitched that part and put some ...

Thanks for the pointers on the malt Bull Rider and Rubber Duck, will double check with the store and make sure I get 2 row next time round. In the tails cut I am picking up a few flavours that are good, but a few bitter ones too. Do the bitter ones age out to good flavours (with reasonable time) or ...

I used crystal malt because it was the cheapest at the beer store and from all I read it didn't matter what malt I used as the flavour wouldn't come over anyway (unless it was smoked). Wrong assumption? The homebrew store labeled it as such, but beyond that I can't say what it was...have to trust th...

Hi all I have spent a ton of time on this forum reading and re-reading and want to thank you all for sharing your experience and knowledge. Much appreciated--particularly Rad, Kiwistiller, Punkin, Uncle Jesse and Dunderhead. I have just started the ageing of my first all grain whisky run. It was sup...

Have changed gears a bit on the boiler and the column, and now with a 15 gallon keg rather than the corny. 3inch VM column. Planning to half fill it so only about 7 gallons will be in there at a time (for foaming). My question is: I don't have a 220 connection or ability to get one. If I use 2 separ...

Thanks Rad, bit of a forehead smacker on that one....green will wear off me eventually I hope... Interesting idea turning it on its side. Guess you would have to seal up the end and put an access/opening on the top instead? Would really shorten it you are right. Keeping it vertical and raising the c...

Little more on what I am about to start....to give you an idea of what I am doing and in case there is a fundamental flaw with the modifications I am planning. Essentially a bako but with a side mounted column because my apartment can't handle the height of the column mounted right on top of the boi...

Hey everyone, been reading this forum and the parent site for a while and super impressed...and enjoying it a ton. Putting together the plans for a smallish apartment still. A friend gave me a corny keg I am going to use as my boiler and am skulking around the metalyards for the column copper. Have ...

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if all the sections with the plates in them are all soldered together, how do you get at each of the plates to clean them? or am I missing how you attach the sections together?