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cheers to Mouse the Impaler! My oldest cat at the moment is Lulu (full name Honolulu Whiteforest), who is 16. My Maine Coons live a quiet life insode the walls of our house, so I haven't got many stories to tell. Once I was starting to make fresh pasta, I had flour and eggs on the table, when Noè (L...

cranky wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:23 pm This just occurred to me

What if Santa gets Covid and passes it on to every household in the world in one night and kills the entire human race on Christmas

Nah....Santa keeps his social distance

Hi Cranky, so sorry to hear about your loss. As a cat family member, I can understand how you feel. I felt the same when Napoleone, my Maine Coon child, left us one night when he was just nine. That was the reason I started distilling, and the ultimate reason I am here. Currenlty we are caring for L...

contrahead wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:17 pm BMW de-icer

Pure genius!!!

"Dad, will you do my algebra homework for me?"
"No, dear, it wouldn't be right!"
"But dad, you could at least try!"

Swedish Pride wrote:Looks like the Italians may avoid the wooden spoon this year

Naaa don't worry we deserve it

nth time today

It's a nice idea, Tater. May I suggest Feburary the 6th: it is the feast of Saint Amandus, patron of beermakers and winemakers.

I am staying

+1 MoonBreath. Keep it on a shelf.

Will probably buy a used barrel, local store has 5 gallons used once for whisky at a decent price. That's correct. If you want to imitate a peated scotch whisky Islay style you must use used wood. Once or more used wood. Oak flavour must not overwhelm the peat and maltiness of your whisky, and new ...

Very nice! thanks for the links, contrahead

on tv before

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yesterday I ran the stripping run on the new batch of UJSSM and started the second generation. This time I used corn for popcorn, that I cracked with my manual mill. I plan to do 9 generations with three spirit runs. I have been "idle" for more than one year, I'm happy to be on the run aga...

you are so stupid that in the stupid olympics you would qualify second.

[quote="CraftyZA"I suspect the moderators will ban it is well. Any synthetic material is banned. Not just plastic.[/quote]

No. PTFE is accepted and it is safe to use

Yes Arbutus unedo, we call it "corbezzolo". They are very common in the mediterranean. Usually people make jelly with them. They can be fermented and distilled. There are a in Italy a couple of industrial brandies made with corbezzoli, but I never tasted them.

well, it sounds almost right. 3kg of flaked maize in 10 liters water, with 100% efficiency virtually produce a 10%ABV wash, with a little less than 1kg alcohol.

So the ratio 3-1 is theoretically feasible. Not in my house, though, not with 100% efficiency.

What a touching act, thank you for sharing, TD. Let me share with you "sa paradura" which is an old tradition still alive among Sardinian sheperds. (I cannot share news articles as they are all in italian) Whenever one sheperd loses his sheeps, which are his only way of supporting his fami...

ShineonCrazyDiamond wrote:There is a word for local uniqueness of influence to spirits. When I find the word, I'll report back. It's all about your water, your temps, your environment for conditioning a spirit that can not be replicated. Let it be what it wants to be

for winemaking that word would be terroir

Georgia, Ohhh Georgia

I have my method too. It's time consuming but works very well. Take any hemorrhoid cream of your choice, and spread it carefully on the backs of the little pests. They die almost instantly! I have tried with toothpaste also, but it does not seem to work as well.

HDNB wrote: and no, the ABV does not go up in dryness...it drops along with the water.

I have no proof, but common understanding says the opposite:

http://www.distillerytrail.com/blog/wha ... els-share/
https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-scie ... els-share/

I used sweetener (Stevia) in my apple cider. It's the easiest way to obtain a sparkling sweet cider. But when I do a sweel liquor (limoncello, nutellotto) I always use real sugar, which in my corner of the world means white beet sugar.

contrahead wrote:I figure it to mean Significant OtHer or Significant Other Half.

either that or Speaker Of the House.

another acronym is SWMBO. She who must be obeyed.

jb-texshine wrote:I got married to my ex wife...does that count as a mistake?

been there, done that. (of course in my case it wasn't your ex wife but mine)

As I work through this, maybe I am just fermenting the added sugar and bringing flavor over from the grain/backset, but my typical yield on the second run is similar to the first? I think you got it. As I understand it you don't do a proper mash the first time? please describe your process in detai...

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