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by kiwi Bruce
Wed Aug 16, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: Absinthe
Topic: A secret ingrediant!
Replies: 0
Views: 2349

A secret ingrediant!

The Henriod sisters may not have give Dr Pierre Ordinaire the whole ingredients list when they sold their "Old family " formula for their health tonic "I believe Absinthe was give it's name by the Good Doctor" This secret addition does appear in some of the hand written herb list...
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Aug 13, 2023 3:33 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Cancer and other MD Shit
Replies: 22
Views: 855

Cancer and other MD Shit

My wife lost her fight with this cursed damned disease. She passed on Saturday the 29th of July in the early hours of the morning. She received the diagnosis the middle of March and didn't last to see the end of Summer, only 18 f..ing painful weeks. She was at least at home with us the last four day...
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Jan 02, 2023 4:45 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Cancer and other medical shit.
Replies: 188
Views: 22157

Re: Cancer and other medical shit.

I sent this to Cob and as I promised myself I'm sharing it with you. As with everything here on HD doing your own research is a given. The substance is “Fenben” (Fenbendazole) There is a moderate size of testimonials now on line (and growing almost daily) written by people who have had amazing resul...
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:51 pm
Forum: Novice Distillers
Topic: Calling Chemists - Removing Copper Sulfate
Replies: 47
Views: 2087

Re: Calling Chemists - Removing Copper Sulfate

Copper sulfate won't distill over, so what you have, must be being created somewhere past your boiler...and that would be (my guess) a copper ammonia salt. Did you/do you passivate your copper work before using it? This will stop the copper reacting to compounds in the vapor trail.
Kiwi
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:25 pm
Forum: Novice Distillers
Topic: Calling Chemists - Removing Copper Sulfate
Replies: 47
Views: 2087

Re: Calling Chemists - Removing Copper Sulfate

Bee wrote: Sun Dec 25, 2022 12:48 pm I noticed I have a pH problem going on and have a couple batches with copper sulfate in them.
Copper is everywhere I get that, but where do you think the sulfur is coming from? In my humble...isn't it more likely to be ammonia? We do use it a lot (DAP) for example.
Kiwi
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:47 am
Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
Topic: CO2 buildup in house?
Replies: 25
Views: 1686

Re: CO2 buildup in house?

CO2 is not a toxic gas, in fact it's necessary for life on our planet. Our air has only 0.04% CO2, any more than that and it's absorbed by the moisture in our air. To make enough to displace the air in a room would be impossible, you'd need to be fermenting a couple of thousand gallons of wash at a ...
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:02 pm
Forum: Absinthe
Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
Replies: 13
Views: 2524

Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?

I just read (and now I can't find it...& how much whisky is involved?) one of the French liquors is flavored in the coloring stage with orange marmalade, as it doesn't mess up the color and gives a great orange flavor. I was looking up something on Mark Twain's brothers death and went down a goo...
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:26 am
Forum: Absinthe
Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
Replies: 13
Views: 2524

Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?

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and orange (this sounds fantastic!)
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:20 am
Forum: Absinthe
Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
Replies: 13
Views: 2524

Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?

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made with candied fruit
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:48 am
Forum: Column Builds
Topic: copper mesh in regular pot still question
Replies: 20
Views: 1778

Re: copper mesh in regular pot still question

The reason for using copper in a pot still set-up is because copper is the catalyst in the conversion of organic acids, (along with alcohol and heat), into esters in the wash in the beer run for whiskeys, rums and other flavored liquors. I put cut 1/2 inch pieces of copper pipe into the bottom of my...
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Jun 22, 2022 3:28 pm
Forum: Absinthe
Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
Replies: 13
Views: 2524

Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?

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Here's one....cherry flavored Absinthe.
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:23 am
Forum: Boilers
Topic: Milk can ?
Replies: 11
Views: 1281

Re: Milk can ?

It's a Galvanized steel antique, the price is okay but stainless is around the same price if not less...look on eBay the prices are less and they're new, unused.
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Jun 19, 2022 9:32 am
Forum: Absinthe
Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
Replies: 13
Views: 2524

Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?

I'll down load some of the labels and posters that show what fruits were used by some of the makers.
by kiwi Bruce
Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:50 am
Forum: Absinthe
Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
Replies: 13
Views: 2524

Absinthe:- a women's drink?

I have become interested in the advertising shift that took place from the late 1890's on, until the Absinthe ban. The Absinthe makers turned their attention to selling to women. The shift is very obvious in their advertising posters and I think there was a shift in the product as well...to a spirit...
by kiwi Bruce
Mon May 23, 2022 3:59 pm
Forum: Whiskey
Topic: Bourbon 4 months old no improvement
Replies: 44
Views: 5436

Re: Bourbon 4 months old no improvement

How doe's it taste now, after aging an extra few months? If you don't like it still, can you describe for us what it is you taste and dislike. Now to try and help! Did you ferment and/or distill on the grain? I found this can leave a bitter flavor in my spirit. Someone said it could be that you went...
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:45 pm
Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
Topic: Breaking down cracked corn WITHOUT heating?
Replies: 53
Views: 8307

Re: Breaking down cracked corn WITHOUT heating?

Also, it seems like many people on this forum use really low ABV yeast or bread yeast. Why? Why not get as much alcohol as you can from each batch using champagne or turbo yeast? Just curious! Quality over Quantity...if you are distilling for the sole purpose of a cheap "high" go for it, ...
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:34 pm
Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
Topic: Breaking down cracked corn WITHOUT heating?
Replies: 53
Views: 8307

Re: Breaking down cracked corn WITHOUT heating?

Feel free to correct my anyone...(Uncle Jesse?) But it's always been my understanding that the purpose for "Simple Sour Mash Method" was for those of us how can't get cheap corn, or don't have the time, aptitude, patience or fortitude to mash umpteen pounds/kilos of corn/maze...BUT who sti...
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:01 pm
Forum: Gin
Topic: How to do individual botanical “sample” runs?!
Replies: 43
Views: 3661

Re: How to do individual botanical “sample” runs?!

+1 Saltbush and Otis AND there is an old adage..."the whole is not equal to the sum of it's parts"...simple stated, you can run five or ten or twenty different herbs or spices and then blend them together...2 cc of part A, 5 cc of part B etc and from this you'll think you have a handle on ...
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:25 am
Forum: Novice Distillers
Topic: Does ageing whiskey affect alcohol measuring?
Replies: 13
Views: 1264

Re: Does ageing whiskey affect alcohol measuring?

If you have a lab it could be measured but the difference is tiny... your talking amounts in the ppt range. If you need to know, weigh a large "watch class" and take the tare. Pour a 1/2 fl oz of whisky onto the watch glass and let the liquid evaporate to dryness and reweigh the watch glas...
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:26 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Jokes
Replies: 4219
Views: 586434

Re: Jokes

A Thanks Giving Story...real too, funny as hell but no joke. I had read a book written by a civil war vet from Ohio, Bob Strong..." A US privates Civil War" (I found it a very good read, by the way) My oldest son was 13 at the time and asked if he could read it when I was finished...He was...
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:11 pm
Forum: Flavoring and Aging
Topic: Pigroasters new optimal profile for oak aging sticks
Replies: 142
Views: 98688

Re: Pigroasters new optimal profile for oak aging sticks

PR I have an oddball question...how did you wind up with a blank line in your profile next to "Last Visited" ?
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:05 pm
Forum: Distilling News
Topic: Found this history of bourbon online today!
Replies: 21
Views: 3015

Re: Found this history of bourbon online today!

ShineonCrazyDiamond wrote: Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:55 pm Really.
OK a Buffalo Turd in a bottle of whiskey would be better than most of those images...
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:58 pm
Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
Topic: vitamin B question
Replies: 15
Views: 2818

Re: vitamin B question

Boil two heaping tablespoons of yeast and boil them in a little of your wash if possable/ If not just use water...when this has cooled add it to your wash while yelling at the top of your voice ..."THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU, YOU LITTLE (use your favorite expletive here) IF YOU DON'T MAKE ...
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:50 am
Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
Topic: Yeast supply in the UK
Replies: 13
Views: 2168

Re: Yeast supply in the UK

Alcophile wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:18 am I've not tied it yet but looking at Lalvin EC1118 available from Amazon £14.99 for 50g. Not been able to find dady without prohibitive delivery charges.
Please...before you spend 15 quid on yeast, at least give bakers a go...you wont be disappointed.
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:37 am
Forum: Distilling News
Topic: Found this history of bourbon online today!
Replies: 21
Views: 3015

Re: Found this history of bourbon online today!

just the thought of using used fish barrel...charred of not, that is a revolting thought :roll: * twas a joke * :wink: 1790s: Bourbon Accidentally Get Barrel Aged Many claim that a Bourbon County pastor and distiller named Elijah Craig was the first to figure out that the cheapest storage method wa...
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:24 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Good bye James, no more vodka martinis for you
Replies: 5
Views: 728

Good bye James, no more vodka martinis for you

James Bond is dead...the hero that made the vodka martini, shaken not stirred, an international classic.
Sean Connery had a pritty good run too...he was 90.
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:08 am
Forum: Distilling News
Topic: Found this history of bourbon online today!
Replies: 21
Views: 3015

Re: Found this history of bourbon online today!

Interesting read. I always get a laugh out of the "distinctive product" BS. Nice laws to enrich a few, in the name of cultural protection. Clearly didn't make the product better *cough* MGP *cough*. I happen to agree with the law to only use new, never used, white oak barrels...the law ma...
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:07 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: What's your favourite commercial Scotch?
Replies: 34
Views: 3134

Re: What's your favourite commercial Scotch?

"Sheep Dip" for sheep had a petroleum smell with a plastic like under tone...( Yes I have been in it, twice in fact, as a kid) I don't think anyone uses it any more, which is a good thing, it was nasty stuff. It's been replaced by an internal "oral dose"/"drench" Sheep ...
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:50 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: What's your favourite commercial Scotch?
Replies: 34
Views: 3134

Re: What's your favourite commercial Scotch?

Expat wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:27 am The Balvenie 12 double wood
I just got a bottle (birthday mid month)

IT WAS $60 FREAKING DOLLARS ! ! !