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Why are you trying to compare honey to water? Not honey to water, but honey weight to water weight. They are different as people have pointed out clearly. The volume of 12 pounds of honey is much different than the volume of 12 pounds of water. I got this now I think. Thanks guys for all your cando...

+1 SCD, although I have seen recipes with water scaled to match the addition of "1 gallon of honey" etc. So, since one gallon of honey equals 12 pounds, you would have to weigh out 12 pounds of water, in a vessel that would contain 12 pounds of weighed water, no matter how many fluid ounc...

While I'm waiting on my beer to ferment and the reparation of the lid to my pot still, I was outside trimming roses of sharon and the mint patch we have that is I don't know how old. The stalks were about 3 feet high received_954794601627378[1].jpeg , so I cultivated the stalks as much as possible a...

While not a question to ask a significant other, I am curious about the recipe's I've found containing honey and would appreciate a bit of clarification. Recipe's I've seen call for poundage of honey. Now, what I know from local beekeepers is that honey is measured differently than standard ounces o...

This is good insight for me as well. I'm brand new with a handful of strips and one spirit run under my belt. I'm trying to figure out how to blend my cuts from my first run and fairly confused. If you are having trouble making the cuts between obvious head, obvious hearts and obvious tails then ma...

Thanks for the input guys! After i run these two birdwatchers i have breaking the still back in, im going to work on this. Already been swimming in the butter rum threads and reading all i can.

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My starting SG for my 18L wash was 1.090 at 96F. When it finished it was 0.991 at 73F. It took just over 2 weeks to complete then i let it sit for this last week. Stripping now . . .

Some yeasts are pretty famous for producing a lot of diacety(butter flavor)l, that might be a good place to start. I think they're mostly English ale yeasts. I've currently got some apple juice fermenting that just this morning started smelling very strongly of butter. I used us-04 yeast (dry Engli...

Getting back into the sport, I've resurrected my affinity to find a Goslings clone. I found out that Goslings is actually a combination of three different recipes of Caribbean rum, blended together and then sealed again in second hand charred oak bourbon barrels with black sealing wax which is where...

garnern2 wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 11:33 am . . . baker’s yeast is nearly impossible to find around here during this time.

I've been watching our local walmart for weeks for yeast. there were two jars right after stock day and I snatched them both!

Friends- wanted to chime in that I've finished the ferment of my first birdwatchers recipe, but scaled down to 18L. OG was 1.090 @ 96F and FG is 0.991 at 70F. From what I've read here, I get the impression I'm right on target. I have a second batch going right now, started the 20th, and should be do...

With 8 years of aging, would you change anything in the original recipe? Frankly I don't think so, at least not for my first run. As a side note, I never did run the other half of the wash from back then, its still in about 7 sealed quart jars. Now, the conditions these have been through over the l...

OK, So I am digging this out after 8 years for a REASON. I found a very small amount of this run back in the back holes of my liquor cabinet, in a recycled bottle I had used, where its sat, forgotten, since 2012. There's about 4 oz left, not enough to test the ABV or anything else. Wish I could. I d...

Heres my aquarium valve stopper. It feeds a line into a water jar to check progress. Yes, not as easy as the other bungs, but this was free. More $$ for goodies, even if $2.99. Lol.[IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202005 ... b0b100.jpg[/IMG]

Is this a copper coil in a bucket? Before the new setup I was using a home-made copper coil in a lowes bucket. When I got some blue I put a cork/stopper in the bottom "output" hole and filled the coil with white vinegar and let it sit over night. Next morning put the setup in the laundry ...

Durhommer wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 3:31 am A simple Google search will help you to find your new best friend

Yes, but that's so anti-social! ;P

Never heard of landscape fabric as "geotextile". The more ya know!

Durhommer wrote:Use geotextile fabric

Whats this and where could it be procured?

Just broke my rig out of 8 years storage, consider myself a noob again. Did a water run today, then a vinegar water run [50/50 mix 80 oz total] then another water run. The pic is what i got out of the vinegar run. The water run subsequent was light blue at first, then clear. I was concetned about th...

I use thr lids, dril a little hole and use the 1 way air valves for aquariums. If the ferment is just right, it whistles! Hahha!

Well, tried my first of NCHoochs recipe, but put in 2#sweetfeed in instead of the barley. Anyone done this? Suggeations for pressing the sweetfeed for the liquid? Was a failed run out the gate as i burned the corn on the hotplate i was using. Thought i could save, but at the behest of advice in anot...

Just moved onto my wifes family farm of 156 years. We have 20 acres we own, 18 of which are tilled. Since i am back into this hobby, and expanding into grains - predominantly managed sugar washes before - i have random access to corn piles that fall off the combine in the fields. So i can go out wit...

+1

My understanding is a "little burn't" is like "a little pregnant".
Good luck with the reboot.[/quote]

Yea, been there two. Lol. Thanks. Will repost if i have a real question next time.

Stills.

OK. Tossed . . . .

Reboot!

My birdwatchers recipe thats been fermenting a week seems to be doing okay.

This would have been ok had it not burned i guess. Thought maybe someone had a saving idea for stripping the burned smell.

Operator error.

Thanks @8ball.
Stills

WARNING: LOTSA IGNORANCE. Trying my hand at doing my first corn mash; a slight modification of NCHooch's recipe. I started with 7# cracked corn and 2# sweet feed to 5 gallons water. I put 4 gallons water in a stainless pot started heating on a single electric burner. Yep, got distracted and started ...

I also need to work on this. Have restarted my ventures since 2012. I have apple, pear, persimmon, black walnut [for the ex ;P ], white oak, locust, catalpa and various other woods I am curious about. I have a grove of persimmon trees, and the property, which has been in the family for 156 years, ha...

I use the foreshots for a gun cleaner recipe instead of kerosene. I also use it for a recipe for penetrating oil I use on the gun bench as well.

Waking the still i built in 2012, hadnt touched it since. Found half a batch i hadnt run thats been sealed since march of 2012. Started prowling this site again, finding out all my dictionary terms are a mashed mess. So im starting out as a noob again. In short, Washed everything, started a tnt reci...

The closest thing i can come up with is it looks like a micro water heater wlement. The part in the jar is solid, but the tube on the lid is hollow like something fir in it, maybe similar to the electric skillets. GIS and other searches ive done have been fruitless.

Reallly neat story. Would love a picture so we know what yer taking about.... Agh! Well, My photobucket sprung a leak and the bulb burned out in my flickr. Guess Imgur will have to do. Teach me to use my phone . . . Stills. http://i.imgur.com/9KUYgU8t.jpg http://i.imgur.com/oKqthiBt.jpg http://i.im...

I am thinking this jar had something to do with canning or making persimmon wine, but i have not been able to find anything on this device i found under the stairs in the basement of our old house. It seems to be missing some parts, and the lid is mostly rusted away. But the intriguing part is whats...