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Wow, quite a lot going on in this thread of mine. hehe. I guess its time the Original Poster made an update post. ;) To give an update on the fermentation - It is 10 days later, and the fermentation has been finished for about 5 days now, that it has not been bubbling, so I thought its time to disti...

Thanks for all the advice guys.

At this stage, everything from the fermentation is running smoothly.

I am stirring it once a day and pushing all the pieces more to the bottom.

Will see how it turns out

1Day - Update: Thanks for all the great feedback everyone. I checked the fermentation bucket this morning and its bubbling away nicely, so that is always a good sign, hehe. After all the feedback, I am pretty upset with myself over adding that little bit of sugar. To be honest, I didnt know that it ...

I am attempting my first proper Brandy that I want to distill from grapes. Here is what I did with the mashing and fermentation, please feel free to let me know if it will work and what you think... If this goes according to plan, I will post it in the recipe's section. First want to see if the ferm...

Hey there fellow distillers and alcohol lovers! My name is Bertus Engelbrecht, and I would like to introduce myself here. I come from Cape Town, South Africa, and have bought myself a 25l Alembic Copper Pot Still, in the hopes of making brandies, fruit brandies and whiskeys for aging, but also looki...