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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: Drinks and Drinking
- Topic: How do you stop yourself from drinking your stash too early?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8085
Re: How do you stop yourself from drinking your stash too early?
My stocks of white dog UJSSM and neutral for gin are getting depleted, so I just bought enough sugar and grain to make enough of both to last a couple of years. Big ferments, long hours in the shed, get the hard work done then experiment with the feints in my leisure time. That neutral for gin spir...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: PNW to NZ transplant
- Replies: 11
- Views: 149
Re: PNW to NZ transplant
There is good and bad advice for cooling all over the net and the forum. Good advice makes use of physics, poor advice ignores it. Hint, heat rises. Hint, closed loop cooling systems have often been discussed on this forum and using Google should find you some useful threads. Cooling water from my s...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:45 am
- Forum: Liqueurs
- Topic: Whiskey or bourbon liqueur
- Replies: 24
- Views: 382
Re: Whiskey or bourbon liqueur
You can get orange into a drink by suspending fruit or peel above the liquor. See Liqueur du pendu.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: PNW to NZ transplant
- Replies: 11
- Views: 149
Re: PNW to NZ transplant
Welcome to the forum and NZ Don.
Keep your distilling money under the mattress until you’ve done homework. You can build a much better still for the same money as an airstill.
Keep your distilling money under the mattress until you’ve done homework. You can build a much better still for the same money as an airstill.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Liqueurs
- Topic: Whiskey or bourbon liqueur
- Replies: 24
- Views: 382
Re: Whiskey or bourbon liqueur
I’ve done quite a few Glayva style liqueurs using mead dregs and various whiskeys and honeys. Most were successful. My daughter likes UJSSM and honey, but I’m not a fan of it. Any liqueur made with honey is difficult to get clear so I don’t put much effort into clearing them. If anything does settle...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Cork for gasket
- Replies: 17
- Views: 249
Re: Cork for gasket
Where do they say that? I can’t find it. Have you got a link?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Blue flakes in 9yo brandy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 206
Re: Blue flakes in 9yo brandy
Chuck it in the feints collection
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Cork for gasket
- Replies: 17
- Views: 249
Re: Cork for gasket
You want to use it for contact with hot solvents, so it needs to be better than ‘food safe’.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Cork for gasket
- Replies: 17
- Views: 249
Re: Cork for gasket
Can you provide a link to that statement?
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1072
Re: White Rum flavour too strong
Right, ok so you wouldnt swap out the demerara for white... No, I wouldn't. If I had already found the flavor profile that I liked and wanted to reduce the intensity, I would have a guess for the next batch, then use a calculator to work out how much of the original ingredients to reduce the recipe...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1777
Re: Distilling without power or running water
There's no need to, the drawings had been around for many decades before I found them and are now available online. It's built out of what was available in the local scrapyard on the day, so posting pics won't be much more help than the original drawings. I have seen one built using two kegs.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1777
Re: Distilling without power or running water
Yes. That's where I got the idea from. Built it when I was a newbie. So are you thinking ferment 2 or 3x your still size and strip until you have enough low wines and load all those low wine in the preheater on your last run to get them up to temp too? I quite often start a spirit run of a differen...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1777
Re: Distilling without power or running water
Yes. That's where I got the idea from. Built it when I was a newbie.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Distilling without power or running water
- Replies: 76
- Views: 1777
Re: Distilling without power or running water
Double distillation using a preheater is the most energy and cooling water efficient system I know of. I've just watched a Moonshiners episode where they have built a "heater box" which is a primitive, but effective, version of what I use. The next strip starts producing a few minutes afte...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Ted's Fast Fermenting Vodka
- Replies: 643
- Views: 326714
Re: Ted's Fast Fermenting Vodka
Going back to water, whilst it's clearly nowhere near as important as when brewing beer or cider, I have found that adding a campden tablet and leaving it overnight really helps before adding the ubiquitous epsom salts and citric acid. Obviously everyone's water might be different, but we have high...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Using spent grain for sourmash....PH CRASH
- Replies: 6
- Views: 171
Re: Using spent grain for sourmash....PH CRASH
"astronomically low" isn't a number.
Baking soda is not the best chemical for adjusting pH.
1.090 is quite high. You do have some alcohol in it, so maybe just run it and get what you get?
Use the high SG backset for the next generation?
Baking soda is not the best chemical for adjusting pH.
1.090 is quite high. You do have some alcohol in it, so maybe just run it and get what you get?
Use the high SG backset for the next generation?
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:48 pm
- Forum: (Discussion) General Stilling Questions
- Topic: Cleaning run
- Replies: 7
- Views: 206
Re: Cleaning run
I do them outdoors with no cooling water. Don't treat them as 'practice' runs or keep any distillate. Chris do you do your sac run outdoors with no cooling water? What's your heat source? Whatever it is for that still or cleaning run. I have stills with internal elements, plus stills that run on fi...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: History and Folklore
- Topic: Poxna, a spirit here I've never tried
- Replies: 12
- Views: 439
Re: Poxna, a spirit here I've never tried
It sounds like it's 'use what you've got', the same as Poitín and prohibition era moonshine, etc..
I'm sure that I've made spirits that fit the descriptions, especially when morphing sour mash generations into rum generations and vise versa
I'm sure that I've made spirits that fit the descriptions, especially when morphing sour mash generations into rum generations and vise versa
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: (Discussion) General Stilling Questions
- Topic: Cleaning run
- Replies: 7
- Views: 206
Re: Cleaning run
I do them outdoors with no cooling water. Don't treat them as 'practice' runs or keep any distillate.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: White Rum flavour too strong
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1072
Re: White Rum flavour too strong
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.
You can dilute flavor by adding white sugar to the ferment, or neutral to the heart cut.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Gin
- Topic: Vapor only grams to liter ratio
- Replies: 18
- Views: 501
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: 501
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: 36
- Views: 1072
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: 163
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: 121
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: 76
- Views: 1777
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: 221
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: 76
- Views: 1777
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: 25
- Views: 782
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: 740
- Views: 236220
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.