If you had the flavors correct but too strong, swapping the flavored ingredients for others sounds like a mistake.
You can dilute flavor by adding white sugar to the ferment, or neutral to the heart cut.
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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 30
- Views: 737
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Gin
- Topic: Vapor only grams to liter ratio
- Replies: 18
- Views: 412
Re: Vapor only grams to liter ratio
Five gallons is a lot to have under an element, especially when it's barely covered. Watch out for stratification.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Gin
- Topic: Vapor only grams to liter ratio
- Replies: 18
- Views: 412
Re: Vapor only grams to liter ratio
I'd rather err on the side of too much flavor, then dilute it with neutral to get the intensity I like.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:20 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 30
- Views: 737
Re: White Rum flavour too strong
...however i want a bicardi style with a bit more ruminess if ya like. Have you looked up how Bacardi makes their white rum? It isn't white rum straight off the still, it's barrel aged, then the color is stripped out of it with a specialized carbon that I bet you can't obtain, or make, without doin...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: AG Wheat Gin Base/Vodka
- Replies: 2
- Views: 129
Re: AG Wheat Gin Base/Vodka
You can include as much flavor as you want by how you run the still and choose your cuts. For Jenever, I use narrow cut hearts from a pot still. For gin spirit with less grain flavor, I reflux the feints from the pot still spirit run.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: Worm condenser without electricity or tap water
- Replies: 3
- Views: 89
Re: Worm condenser without electricity or tap water
I sometimes use a 12V pump to add cold water to the bottom inlet of the flake stand, overflowing the hot water from the top outlet. A cheap 12V temperature controller is used to control the temperature in the flake stand near the product outlet, the thermocouple is in the water, not the product. Thi...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1274
Re: Distilling without power or running water
I doubt it. The entry point, G, for the vapor is too high. It will work just fine if the pre heater outlet piping is plumbed to allow removal of condensate generated in the pre-heater. STRIPPER W PREHEATER.jpg I've never seen the inlet to a thumper designed like that. What stops the thumper drainin...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:59 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Toasted oats in the low wines
- Replies: 4
- Views: 204
Re: Toasted oats in the low wines
Watch out for burning. It would be safer if they were put in a Carter Head.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1274
Re: Distilling without power or running water
I was thinking of fabricating one of these condensers as I have a lot of copper sheet that I found on craigslist. I could use it as a wine preheater. It would be much easier to clean than a traditional worm. It would be easier to make concentric cylinders instead of cones. condenser.jpg Very cool, ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine lol
- Replies: 24
- Views: 649
Re: Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine lol
I don't even take the still head off between stripping runs, refilling through a valve at the top of the pot.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
- Replies: 736
- Views: 231932
Re: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
Your life doesn't sound much different to mine up until I started distilling. The biggest difference I can think of is that I didn't have the internet feeding me mis-information while I was researching what to do. I had to go to university libraries and hunt for actual research.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
- Replies: 736
- Views: 231932
Re: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
I just told a lie. My first rum ferment was airlocked and the wash hit the ceiling while we were away for the weekend.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
- Replies: 736
- Views: 231932
Re: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
I don't recall having any dramas when making my first rum over four decades ago without the 'help' of the internet.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
- Replies: 736
- Views: 231932
Re: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
Also i only realized i wasnt even in the ballpark on yeast until reading other recipes. And yeah thats why i didnt attempt another gravity reading after extra sugar. If you want to know just how screwed up my head was at the moment, changing jars on a spirit run and why you can now see i have a lei...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:03 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
- Replies: 736
- Views: 231932
Re: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
Still didnt take fg yet because i dont know what it would mean after an og, a ferment, and more sugar added. I’ll watch to see if gravity changes over next couple days. FG and OG won't mean anything to any of us 'experts' now that you have added sugar. The best check now is tasting it. If it's stil...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
- Replies: 736
- Views: 231932
Re: SBB's All Molasses Rum Recipe
A number one screw up. There was probably nothing wrong with it and it was finished. Your Brix refractometer is the wrong tool for the job. A hydrometer is more useful, but even then, you still have to allow for non-sugars that affect both refractometer and SG readings. The difference from OG to FG...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine lol
- Replies: 24
- Views: 649
Re: Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine lol
You don't say what type of still you have, what it is made out of, or how you heat it.
Cleaning between brandy runs isn't needed and citric acid strips valuable patina off copper.
Cleaning between brandy runs isn't needed and citric acid strips valuable patina off copper.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: pre SPIRIT RUN % Tempuring for safety
- Replies: 8
- Views: 265
Re: pre SPIRIT RUN % Tempuring for safety
For neutrals, I run until my low wines collection is just below 40%. Some stop earlier, like 50%, then add water to get below 40%.
Have you done vinegar and sacrificial alcohol runs?
Have you done vinegar and sacrificial alcohol runs?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1274
Re: Distilling without power or running water
If using a couple of separate solar panels, you could mount them on stands to give yourself some power control. Point them both at the rising sun in the morning, then turn one away enough to prevent smearing when it starts producing. Once producing, you would only have to turn the panels maybe once ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1274
Re: Distilling without power or running water
If you are running a simple pot still, passing clouds will interfere with production, but that doesn't cause smearing, it just takes longer and is a PITA if you are in a hurry to get it done and go to the pub. We use 12V water heater elements directly connected to second hand solar panels to heat ho...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1274
Re: Distilling without power or running water
Solar is at least three worthwhile topics.
A heliostat can aim a mirror.
Panels can be used with batteries and converters, plus they can be connected directly to elements without all the expensive stuff needed to store and convert.
A heliostat can aim a mirror.
Panels can be used with batteries and converters, plus they can be connected directly to elements without all the expensive stuff needed to store and convert.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1274
Re: Distilling without power or running water
If the flue of a rocket stove went through the boiler, there would be some serious burn on happening above the wash, the same as happens when a pot is shrouded.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1274
Re: Distilling without power or running water
I gravity feed my condensers from a bucket hung low enough for me to fill with another bucket. Supply the condenser water using the bottom hose tail and letting it overflow from the top. Flow control is a Crescent spanner pinching the water line.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine lol
- Replies: 24
- Views: 649
Re: Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine lol
Stripping them separately is a good idea.
If any of them did smell of SO2 when you opened the bottles, please let us know what tricks you used to distill them and how they turned out.
If any of them did smell of SO2 when you opened the bottles, please let us know what tricks you used to distill them and how they turned out.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: An Absinthe thread with Absinthe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2704
Re: An Absinthe thread with Absinthe
There are older threads.
I don't have any issues with learning from old threads and members that have moved on.
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I don't have any issues with learning from old threads and members that have moved on.
viewtopic.php?t=725
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: An Absinthe thread with Absinthe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2704
Re: An Absinthe thread with Absinthe
I macerate overnight, then add the water just before distilling.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Related Electric Accessories
- Topic: Temperature Monitoring?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 196
Re: Temperature Monitoring?
I have a thermocouple in the charge because the boiling point can be used to work out the ABV of the charge. When the first stripping run is done to my satisfaction, I record the temperature and use it to end the remaining strips without me having to check the ABV during the runs. The final ABV of e...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:54 pm
- Forum: Absinthe
- Topic: Help me perfect my new hobby!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 119
Re: Help me perfect my new hobby!
Start by planting the botanicals in your garden so that you can use them fresh.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Safety and Related Issues
- Topic: Clear coating on copper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 341
Re: Clear coating on copper
I had to anneal the bottom of my still at least twice while shaping it to take an element at 45 degrees, which was then bent to horizontal to give me a very low element for small runs if needed. It was well worth the effort and I've done many small experimental runs with this still, even though it i...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: John Dore two retorts Pot Still.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1223
Re: John Dore two retorts Pot Still.
I don't know that there is any need to put water in the retorts for the initial run. There is no flavor or alcohol in water. I'll rephrase that: I don't know that there is any need to put water, rather than wash, in the retorts for the initial run. There is no flavor or alcohol in water. Starting w...