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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Cigars - what are you smoking
- Replies: 18
- Views: 302
Re: Cigars - what are you smoking
Had this for my bday last month. New Zealand has one of the highest tobacco tax-rates in the world. This stick cost me $62NZ ($37US). A treat for a special occasion, but even the most budget sticks here are prohibitively expensive, so I can't have as many as I'd like to. :esad: Perdomo10Maduro.jpg
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Weathered white oak question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 200
Re: Weathered white oak question
I got ahead of myself. The Fungi help breakdown lignin, which is the strong bond (wood glue) that bonds cellulose/vanillin. Lignin also degrades with heat, but the fungi working on the surface, would make more desirable hemi-cellulose available after a light shaving (verses a stave that does not get...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Weathered white oak question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 200
Re: Weathered white oak question
(there's also anecdotal stuff about fungal breakdown of fibres, but given it's heartwood I'm not sure how significant that is) which will get at least some of the tannins out of your booze. The Fungi don't help with tannin. They break down cellulose into hemi-cellulose, (wood sugar). When hemi-cell...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: Chinese double-wall still, ordering and setup
- Replies: 116
- Views: 20448
Re: Chinese double-wall still, ordering and setup
ePTFE is good if you don't need to reassemble it.The Booze Pipe wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:49 am I really like those EPDM triclamp gaskets enveloped in ptfe. But ya I was wondering if anyone had found something similar that’s flat to seal the glass between the stainless
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Book about making Scotch Whisky
- Replies: 4
- Views: 341
Re: Book about making Scotch Whisky
Arthur Motley who runs Royal Mile Whiskies, also has this channel -
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLiquidAntiquarian/streams
Hasn't posted any videos or gone live in a while, but they did have a few discussions on the last book, so it might be worth bookmarking.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLiquidAntiquarian/streams
Hasn't posted any videos or gone live in a while, but they did have a few discussions on the last book, so it might be worth bookmarking.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1066
Re: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
If I recall the thread, that vid was just posted as an example.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1066
Re: Gone to distill some gin at a distillery and shocked by some practices
This vid is from a Tasmanian Distillery a few years back. There isn't any footage from that Feb 21 incident (at least not publicly available). My understanding of that disaster, is that the victim had an ungrounded tote elevated on a forklift that was free-pouring NGS (so high 90's ABV) into a stai...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: Peated Single Malt question...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 326
Re: Peated Single Malt question...
If I want a single malt that has nuisances of peat, I'll use up to 25% heavily peated Bairds or my local Gladfield malt. Those are 50ppm and 40ppm respectively. The Simpsons (medium) is around 20-30ppm.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Single malt barley whiskry horrible taste
- Replies: 23
- Views: 953
Re: Single malt barley whiskry horrible taste
Thats a tails jar in my garage.Moonshine31 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:21 am When I drank my spirit run I had 7 jars and I drank the entire jar that was roughly 40%, no mixing or blending, I think it was numbered 3 or 4.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Single malt barley whiskry horrible taste
- Replies: 23
- Views: 953
Re: Single malt barely whiskry horrible taste
For all we know, a single malt whisky has never passed your lips and you've made something that is the perfect representation of one, but you just hate malted barley... What are you comparing to? The last time I made single malt with 40lbs, I got 20L of low wines at 25.5% ABV. That was combined with...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: My whiskey have a licorice flavor WHY?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 309
Re: My whiskey have a licorice flavor WHY?
Awfully small volume you're working with. Cuts get easier with larger volumes. I just wonder whether your stretching your cuts too wide?
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: I need some math equation help...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 521
Re: I need some math equation help...
I find this calculator quite handy. https://hobbybrennen.ch/Rechner/en/MixingCalculator.html Thanks, but I don't understand what that does. :think: I was trying to figure out the total % of my low wines from my 2 jars...I think these are 2 different things, not sure. Its a mixture calculator. You e...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: I need some math equation help...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 521
Re: I need some math equation help...
I find this calculator quite handy.
https://hobbybrennen.ch/Rechner/en/Mixi ... lator.html
https://hobbybrennen.ch/Rechner/en/Mixi ... lator.html
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 740398
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Covid has me stuck at home, but unlike last time, I still have my sense of taste and smell, so I'm spirit running a 70/30 Rye and Malted barley.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: No Mash No sugar
- Replies: 819
- Views: 107957
Re: No Mash No sugar
I can't get past the 'Soju' character that this yeast seems to give everything I've fermented with it (Rye seems to be the most forgiving/complimentary). Having said that, I like it more than some sugar wash bourbon attempts I've made in the past.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: No Mash No sugar
- Replies: 819
- Views: 107957
Re: No Mash No sugar
Had the last 65g of my long opened 500g block and had some leftover kibbled rye to use up. The best before date on the yeast was Aug 2022... YLAY overflow.jpg Safe to say that this stuff doesn't depreciate all that easily. My primary fermenter was in use, so I thought I could get away with next larg...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: Safety and Related Issues
- Topic: Addressing the soapy Smell in Distillates
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2330
Re: Addressing the soapy Smell in Distillates
Proofing spirits down quickly and with large values (high proof dropped down to 40% ABV etc) can also create soapy character. The French brandy industries practice a process known as 'Petits Eaux' (Small Water) where they take barrel aged water and proof the brandy down slowly over months and someti...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Is this a good oak for aging?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 901
Re: Is this a good oak for aging?
Yard seasoned oak for the spirits industry attracts Fungi that play an important roll in breaking down cellulose into hemicellulose. Why is that important? Hemicellulose turns to sugar when you heat (brown) it. You can bake a piece of steak, boil it or cook it in the microwave, but most people agree...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:30 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 740398
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Odin's Rye Bread Whiskey. Used the backset to kick off a UJSSM which is bubbling away nicely.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: American single malt
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1170
Re: American single malt
I've yet to use any of my virgin oak to age single malt. It seems like a lot of American Single Malt is new fill barrels. I see that as a good thing, as it will differentiate American Single Malt and it will ensure that used bourbon and rye barrels will continue to be exported for all of the other b...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:52 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 740398
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Spirit run on some Honey shine. My beekeeper friend gifted me some 2nd grade and melter honey. I wasn't able to get a brix reading but I made the wash up with a rough estimate of 50% fermentability. WRONG! It was more like 70%.... So it finished up around 11.4% ABV, which is much higher than I'd usu...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:59 pm
- Forum: Related Electric Accessories
- Topic: Internal heating element risks
- Replies: 18
- Views: 950
Re: Internal heating element risks
May add a sightglass just above the level of my top element to ease my nerves around accidentally running dry I wouldn't think that would be anywhere near as practical as a float-switch connected to an alarm or relay that kills the heat. If you are worried about running dry, simply do not collect m...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Peat
- Replies: 13
- Views: 816
Re: Peat
Could be stale. I've certainly had some sacks that are fresher than others.
I don't measure off the still. My low wines for heavily peated are typically 22-27% ABV (which gets bumped up to high 20's - low 30's once I add the recycled feints).
I don't measure off the still. My low wines for heavily peated are typically 22-27% ABV (which gets bumped up to high 20's - low 30's once I add the recycled feints).
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Peat
- Replies: 13
- Views: 816
Re: Peat
I have double pot stilled single malts made with one hundred percent Baird's heavily peated malt.
I follow the Scots and recycle my feints, as well as stripping my low wines deeper than for most other spirits.
I follow the Scots and recycle my feints, as well as stripping my low wines deeper than for most other spirits.
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:59 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Rum wash infection management
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1041
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Rum wash infection management
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1041
Re: Rum wash infection management
My reading here suggests adding infected wash to an almost finished wash is a winner. Will mean having dedicated infected fermenters though and serious-arsed cleaning between ferments. Thoughts? As I see it, using infected wash/dunder in a live fermentation will eventually lead to a stall or total ...
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:18 pm
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: Union joint leak
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3005
Re: Union joint leak
Ya don't want or need any teflon tape on a union. The exception to this would be stainless steel unions. Without PTFE tape, you risk galling of the two parts and never being able to undo them again. The only thing I hate more than unions is threaded stainless! Lots of thick Teflon tape on those. Ye...
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Construction Site
- Topic: Union joint leak
- Replies: 83
- Views: 3005
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:31 am
- Forum: Drinks and Drinking
- Topic: What is everyone drinking?
- Replies: 2004
- Views: 214539
Re: What is everyone drinking?
My take on traditional Poitín, which I call PoitíNZ, as it is made with NZ grown grains (malted barley and malted oats). Half of the barley is heavily peated.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:21 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: What proof do you like for your moonshine?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3874
Re: What proof do you like for your moonshine?
Just recently did a run of UJSSM. Hadn't made it in over 3 years and had been out of stock of it for at least half that time. I have always proofed it down to 80 (40% ABV) and had been enjoying it that way for the last 7 years. I made up a 1L bottle of gen 1 at 80 proof and instantly regretted it. I...