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- Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:08 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: plum mash
- Replies: 51
- Views: 21838
Re: plum mash
Plum brandy, or rakia as we call it at my place, is my favorite fruit wash. A simple suggestion if I may: If you dont run on pulp, keep the pulp aside and let your first destillate macerate on it for a couple of days before your second run. Then filter and do your second distillation. i noticed it g...
- Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:50 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Fruit / Berry Recipes
- Replies: 260
- Views: 153895
what works really wel for my plum brandy: I do strain the wash before I strip it. After the stripping, I let the distillate macerate on the pulp for a few days. After that I strain it again and distill a 2nd time. I found that this really enhances the aroma of the fruit. This might work for other fr...
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:57 am
- Forum: Novice Forum Graveyard
- Topic: appreciation of your spirits
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3059
I think that's way too much carbon filtering personally. I'm only new to stilling (in fact I only have 1 brew under my belt) but I made a good vodka with 2 carbon filters, good flavour. I have been told anything over 2 filters is just taking the flavour away and 2 is enough to remove the contaminan...
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:49 am
- Forum: Safety and Related Issues
- Topic: Tell us about your mistakes.
- Replies: 1580
- Views: 294268
nice topic, let's make this one sticky. For my last slivovitz run, I collected the shine in dark-brown 300ml glass containers. After letting it breathe for the night, I put the hearts in a large ss kettle in order to cut back to app. 42% and mixed some tails back in for taste. Only to find that the ...
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:47 am
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: need help with smelly potstill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4367
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:51 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: need help with smelly potstill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4367
thank you all for your replies. Let me clarify a couple things: - my kettle is made of inox (stainless steel) - using a lyne arm, both column and condenser are 100% copper - did 6 runs in total now, all double distillled sugar washes. - I am pretty sure the rubber ring is the problem - the ditillate...
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:34 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: need help with smelly potstill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4367
need help with smelly potstill
A few weeks ago I built a simple potstill out of a used 20L inox pressure cooker. It works like a charm, but there is a strange smell in my distillate. I know the pressure cooker has been used for months making pea-soup, and even after cleaning it over and over again, this particular smell still car...
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:22 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: looking for controversial recipy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3838
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:39 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: looking for controversial recipy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3838
looking for controversial recipy
Hi all, After a few weeks of lurking, reading and learning, I decided to post a request for a recipy. A long time ago, when I was still a student, a friend of mine got his hands on a bottle filled with a lightgreen substance, which he called weedliquor. He told us it was homemade from ´jenever´, a l...