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When the tornado sirens start going off and your wife asks if there is room in the basement fermentation room....I mean bathroom.

When you realize you have more random segments of garden hose than you have complete garden hoses.

Absolutely I'm glad to give back to the forum with as much as I have learned from here. Ok follow this closely for the best results as it's what I do and everyone loves it, maybe make it a sticky in the shared recopies Juice of 15 lemons this should produce about a quart of juice (I cut the lemon i...

That my friend is one hell of a condenser. Love the stand you have it mounted to. That should keep it nice and stable.

Got a little Christmas money and you instantly think sugar money.

Thanks. I will re-pitch from previous once I get it up and running.

Hey, if I'm pitching bakers yeast would I do a tablespoon like the UJSSM or the 225 grams like Birdwatchers? I would also imagine some DAP would help? This would be for a 5-6 gallon batch.

Put together a redneck care package - bag of dried pinto beans, a vacuum pack of country cured ham seasoning pieces, couple cans of collard greens, a jar of hot chow chow, a box of Jiffy cornbread mix, and a stamped self-addressed dinner invitation to yourself. And, if it's still in the budget, thr...

You have an obsession with buckets

I have attended the distilling class and will be attending the recipe class this month. I had a couple of runs under my belt before I attended and I thought it was still very helpful. It was cool to talk to there's in person from around the country. If you attend ask lots of questions. That helps ev...

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Safety issue with explosive vaporized alcohol coming out

Push notification seems to be working as we'll.

Making Pure Corn Whiskey by Ian Smiley (an Amphora Society Publication)
The Complete Distiller by Nixon & McCaw

Not as entertaining as the one you are reading now. But those two are must reads in my opinion.

Yep. Started reading it last week. I think it's very interesting. Currently reading the potato section. Some really cool stuff.

Just posted this using the client on my iPhone. FYI

Just logged in with the Tapatalk client. Will start using it more and see how it works. So far things look right

Funny about the Cock Ale. I'm reading the book The Drunken Botanist and in the book they talk about Mezcal the drink. Mezcal is made from the roasted heart of the agave. Technically it was tequila before tequila was coined. There is actually a recipe where you hung the raw chicken breast in the stil...

Mexican Coke (pure cane sugar not that High Fructose Crap) and Rebel Yell.

Sight glass is very cool. Reminds me of a spirit safe the kind I've seen in some of the overseas distilleries.

Woodshed,

Did the 16,000 bond cover the tasting room also or is that a separate bond? I'm assuming separate. So you yearly bond would have been $21,000.

Thanks

We just moved to a smaller house. I have learned that EVERY drawer is a junk drawer.

Look at the top of your meter. That is 1.100 not 1.010. You probably just read it wrong. EDIT: Other way around. Your alcohol meter should top out at 1.000. A hydrometer would would usually read 0.990 at the very top. There is also the possibility that your hydrometer is off. Put it in a tube of dis...

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Just switched to the Moscow Mule. While I don't have a cooper cup I do have a Dicky's BBQ yellow cup that works just as we'll.

2 ounces Vodka
2 ounces Lime Juice
Top off with Ginger Beer

Gonna sleep well tonight.

The good old dark and stormy.

2 ounces of dark rum like a Myers's Rum Original Dark
Top off with a Ginger Beer. I'm drinking Goslings.

Kraken Rum and Diet Coke.

black layer? Trub is white swirling coagulated clumps of precipitated protein in a beer boil. Dont get trub in a whiskey process cause dont boil the wash/mash. During cooling of the beer wort the trub will settle out and is not included in teh fermenting bucket Lees is the yeast that settles in teh...

So Lees are all the yeast, etc left over after you siphon off the liquid. Backset is the left over mash/wash/beer out of the still when you are finished with a run. So how do we define Trube? Is it interchangeable with the terms lees or would it be the lees along with mash/wash left in the fermentin...

Sweet Tea Bourbon and Lemonade.