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Its wild to read that in the heat of Aug. Ah but Crow hails from lands where water takes a different approach toward the drain.

My son sent a pic of inches of snow in Montana in June. And snow returning there next month in Sept. Brrrr....

Great post MCH. What temp did you kiln the corn at? Are you counting on some enzymes from the corn malt, or leaving it to the malted wheat to do that bit fer ya?

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Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:49 am

That's a shotty looking warehouse to be holding that much weight and value, imo. Looks like a Gilligan's Island cardboard box!

Right? What lurks behind them drab walls when youre taking your ass cross town.

was a sonofabitch

I saw Jimbo’s post about new distillers wanting to push abv’s. He says a mash should produce 6-8%. Ive since modified my opinion on this. I do 10% mashes now for bourbons as Ive found with a clean yeast, and a slow (cool) ferment and healthy mash the result is the same as 6-8% mashes. I would recom...

Hey guys, sounds good, congrats on your runs. I've been getting low on bourbon stocks until this new barrel is ready next year, so I started diluting my bourbon maybe 60/40 with the gumball (2013 batch) and its really nice. Nothing at all seems unbourbonlike about it. The other livers that help me f...

A nice picture....

went from 255lb to 180 in four years...with all the health benefits. don't hand your life and health over to someone else, no matter how much you think you trust them...you take care of yourself! Thats outstanding Kiwi, congrats! Yes its a journey, a lifelong change of lifestyle. Its not easy after...

Thanks Jimbo for the idea! I'm tempted to drink this white it's so good. The idea of all grain without the fuss of squeezing is great. The only downside is disposal of the slurry. I don't have access to a place to dump it outside and fear plumbing issues if I dump too much down the sewer. When Wind...

Same story here. I was eating the typical American diet, high in grain and sugar loaded packaged horseshit. My triglycerides and cholesterol were through the roof. My blood sugar was hosed, first signs of Type 2 diabetes, nueropathy in my toes etc. etc. I decided to research, read a half dozen books...

Nice! Congrats Zach.

Here's my latest label, recent batch of beer.... BBLPorter.jpg Looked at the photo first, was going to post that your labels are rivaling Jimbo’s then realized it was you that posted it. :lol: haha! Thanks Bushman! Hope things are well with you all. Aside from a burst of activity last year to fill ...

Youre welcome.

Go to the salvation army and pick up an old wool blanket or quilt. Marital harmony is not over rated.

Had great luck with this using Malted Barley. Started the ferment at 1.060 sg, and was complete in 5 days. I just got some malted red wheat to try next and ran mostly the same process yesterday per the directions. All seemed to go fine, and looked right. But when I checked the sg after pitching the...

On my last run 2 weekends ago I got my 3 plate fired up with a 25G tank almost full, 2 elements dialed back to 3500W each (7000W total) and a decent defleg flow. Plenty of reflux happening, and all plates fully loaded. Seemed like the quart jars were filling fast, so I timed one at 8.5 minutes, holy...

congrats, happy you enjoy it.

Shit! I think I will be adding some bitter almond oil to my wash, and more in thump charge. na, I wouldnt worry about it. Not sure the almonds make that big of difference? Or at least Id have NO idea how much bitter almond oil equals 3200 pits, so you'd be guessing and possible fornicating up the w...

ok so maybe not 12 trillion pits. Sounds like about 3200 pits by MCH's math.

Hey! Watch who youre calling an OOOOOLD ass!

5g of cherry wash is about 12 trillion pits when I attack the cherry tree. So I wouldnt worry about 'over pitting' it, if that's your concern.

Juniper, that's a fantastic ferment, all the way dry. Congrats. The big sleep will be worth it, leave your mitts off it. 5L wont be able to handle 'big' sleep tho so be careful. Taste at 6 months, might be ready to move to glass. 5g (20L) bbls are generally done in a year. 10g in 2 years. 5L may ove...

3.8 pH is not out of the ordinary.

Whats the gravity?

BTW if you add non malted grains to an otherwise all malt recipe, like I did below, just follow the bourbon protocol (see in my sig). Bring water to a boil, put it over the non malted grain and stir well periodically while the temp slowly drops to strike temp for the malt. Here's a calculator for st...

RYE! Did up this recipe again today but with rye. Mashed up 50 lbs of Rye malt with 10 lbs of oats to add a little smoothness to the spice. OK its not a single malt any more with the oats in there but who's counting. This will go in one of my used 5g barrels for as long as I can keep my mitts off it.

Well shit, 3 batches didnt fill the barrel. (see first batch details just below from a couple weeks ago) Total grain bill 150 lbs corn meal and 50 lbs wheat malt. Put 8.9 gallons in the barrel at 62%. Gotta go get another damn bag of corn meal and more wheat malt. Thats ok will give me some extra ag...

cranky wrote: I'm beginning to thing 100 gallons may just be within reach this year.

Youre a machine cranky!

Crow, I love the tune Iris Dement did with John Prine. Laugh outloud every single time I hear it.

What the heck was Jimbo infusing on the first page of this post cause his is solid green? Been meaning to get back to this question for weeks. I just checked my recipe. 42 gr juniper berries 12 gr coriander seed 5 gr fennel seed zest from 1 grapefruit zest from 2 honey tangerines Im guessing the fe...

Happy to help Neckstiller. Yes that is where it gets really fun, get the basics down so you understand whats happening and how to be successful, and then go off on your own and create something you can really be proud of. Nothin better. Cheers and congrats.

Jimbo