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- Wed Aug 16, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: A secret ingrediant!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2390
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...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Cancer and other MD Shit
- Replies: 22
- Views: 903
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...
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 4:45 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Cancer and other medical shit.
- Replies: 188
- Views: 22519
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...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:51 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Calling Chemists - Removing Copper Sulfate
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2276
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
Kiwi
- Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:25 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Calling Chemists - Removing Copper Sulfate
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2276
Re: Calling Chemists - Removing Copper Sulfate
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
- Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:47 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: CO2 buildup in house?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1769
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 ...
- Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:02 pm
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2599
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...
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:26 am
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2599
Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
and orange (this sounds fantastic!)
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:20 am
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2599
Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
made with candied fruit
- Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:48 am
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: copper mesh in regular pot still question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1900
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...
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 3:28 pm
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2599
Re: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
Here's one....cherry flavored Absinthe.
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:23 am
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Milk can ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1318
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.
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 9:32 am
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2599
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.
- Sat Jun 18, 2022 11:50 am
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: Absinthe:- a women's drink?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2599
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...
- Mon May 23, 2022 3:59 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: Bourbon 4 months old no improvement
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5606
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...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Breaking down cracked corn WITHOUT heating?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8462
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, ...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Breaking down cracked corn WITHOUT heating?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8462
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...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:01 pm
- Forum: Gin
- Topic: How to do individual botanical “sample” runs?!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3767
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 ...
- Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:25 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Does ageing whiskey affect alcohol measuring?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1310
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...
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:26 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jokes
- Replies: 4219
- Views: 598483
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...
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:11 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Pigroasters new optimal profile for oak aging sticks
- Replies: 142
- Views: 101186
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" ?
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:05 pm
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Found this history of bourbon online today!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3100
Re: Found this history of bourbon online today!
OK a Buffalo Turd in a bottle of whiskey would be better than most of those images...
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:58 pm
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: vitamin B question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2854
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 ...
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 11:46 am
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Found this history of bourbon online today!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3100
Re: Found this history of bourbon online today!
Bushman's post isn't the only post that has this
www.straightbourbon.com/community/topic ... d-or-myth/
www.straightbourbon.com/community/topic ... d-or-myth/
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:50 am
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: Yeast supply in the UK
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2176
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:37 am
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Found this history of bourbon online today!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3100
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...
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:24 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Good bye James, no more vodka martinis for you
- Replies: 5
- Views: 750
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.
Sean Connery had a pritty good run too...he was 90.
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:08 am
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Found this history of bourbon online today!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3100
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...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:07 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: What's your favourite commercial Scotch?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3225
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 ...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: What's your favourite commercial Scotch?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3225