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Exciting new, multiple award-winning Santa Barbara County craft distillery is looking to hire an assistant distiller who has production experience in distilling or brewing. The assistant distiller will be expected to work with the Master Distiller and distillation production team on various tasks in...

Hi and welcome, if your ever passing by Buellton come pay us a visit at Ascendant Spirits. Its always fun to chat it up with a fellow pro.

in the process of building my own glass column, nice work odin

I never got around to trying white labs distillers yeast but i found that safale US-05 dry beer yeast seems to work pretty good for corn whiskey

finally got around to trying kamut. made a blend of 55% kamut 20% white malted wheat 25% malted 6 row. Initial tasting left me with the impression that this is going to be a damn fine whiskey once it ages on oak for a while. smooth sipping and a nice sweetness to it. only real problem was the kamut ...

ended up sourcing 3 varieties of molasses for my experiments. two of them came from international molasses and one was from some other brand. so far my favorite has been the light and sweet molasses from international. it makes a real nice light rum. paid about 50 bucks for a 5 gallon pail of it

has anyone on here tried kamut? i plan on doing some experimentation with it, by using it with some malted white wheat and 6 row. Id love to get anyones input if they have some to share

Alright! thanks for the link to the peat. Gonna order some up right meow

hey bu77head, id be interested to hear if you have any preference on any of the whitelabs whiskey yeasts. Im looking at trying a few different yeasts in my experiments and would be interested if you prefer any one over the other and why

I know this is an old thread but i was wondering if anyone can speak to their experience using this yeast??

Hi HD! im a huge fan of scotch and have made a few great AG whiskeys, mainly thanks to all the knowledge I've aquired from the HD forums. Anyhoo i have searched high and low for a good source of peat moss so that I can try to replicate some of my favorite scotches, but have come up empty handed. Can...

srs787. How did your rum turn out using web restaurant molasses? I am trying to decide from them or to use molasses international

Thanks teepee! ill give them a read

Hi My name is Kris, I am an aspiring distillers with big dreams. Ive been trolling for a while and learned a lot from all your experiences. Hope to learn much more in the coming years.

Cheers!