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Hello All I am doing up a corn rye whisky. I had hopes of the whisky loosing a funky smell I have distilled 2 times an the resulting sprit run netted about 6 gallons of good good, so I thought. It sort of has a funky smell like sweaty feet or butt "ha ha ha". I have this sitting on oak now...

I know everyone has chimed in already but I feel I should put in my two cents. I am a "roots" Brewer I'm talking the bares' but I use modern equipment to make sure everything is right. But that is besides the point here. You can only use temp as a mark with distilling and brewing. Your sys...

@Swedish Pride Definitely some good knowledge in here for sure. Don't do what I did and do what they say. Eventually I quit doing what I thought I knew and DID what the ol salty boys were saying. That's where I got to where I am now. Which I can say was A fun journey. Not easy nor short but fun none...

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I am overly excited about this batch! It is going to be hard to wait

I'd say it runs in the family.
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Took a long minute to get here it was many runs keeping the hearts. It is Rye heavy

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36 hours in and the color is excellent, starting to notice some oaky vanilla aromas. Now to put it away and forget about it

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Hello all I have run a few larger batches of corn with grain but am new at using enzyme for conversion. I am running a test batch to play around a bit but seem to be failing somewhere. I started off with a almost spent bag of cracked corn about 3qts and 2 cups oats 6 quarts of H2O to start but brou...

6 gal topped off

This evening

Thanks guys

Larger pot and 1 gallon more water

Should the conversion from the corn starch solid to complex sugar be done with the sebstar-HTL and iodine test come back negative for starch ? Then the Sebamyl will convert the complex sugars to simple?

Yes I have the Sebamyl also

Also used an emulsion blender to mix it up

Looking for a clue here

This morning

Last night

Hello all I have run a few larger batches of corn with grain but am new at using enzyme for conversion. I am running a test batch to play around a bit but seem to be failing somewhere. I started off with a almost spent bag of cracked corn about 3qts and 2 cups oats 6 quarts of H2O to start but broug...

Hey just back from a family vacation. Apologies for the delay. The grain bill is as stated above. After it finished at around 10.5 BRIX, I say finished because it stalled for 3 days there. I think I'll stick to IMO easier washes. Anyway, I racked it to 3 glass car boys and allowed it to further clea...

Any one experience this. Will citric acid come over in the distillate? This run was very sour even bitter maybe. It is a 75ryeUM 20wheat UM and 5 6-row
I had issues with the ferment but I got about 2gallons from a 13 gallon wash

Runs ok but tastes like poison in a bad way! Like Heads on steroids smells ok tastes like rye. Showing 210F at the head and coming off at 40 proof

NZChris wrote:I've never considered the second run a waste of fuel. That is the run that I use to transform my crappy pot stilled low wines into prime drinkin likker for aging.

I kept it for a later run