Home Distiller

I doubt if anyone will get their undies in a twist about it, but in future, if you decide to tell anyone about this place, my humble recommendation would be to point them towards the home site, not the forum, and earnestly encourage them to read EVERYTHING. At least once if not twice, then and only ...

http://www.gizmag.com/brewdogs-55-abv-beer-the-strongest-and-most-expensive-beer-in-history/15798/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow A 55% ABV beer made by freeze distilling multiple times. They bottle it inside a taxidermied dead animal, for some reas...

You ever notice that there arent really a whole lot of movies for thanksgiving...like Christmas has a bunch,...but not turkey day? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093748/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow killed the genre, if it wasn't dead already. Give...

Horrible news. Say what you want about lumberjacking or deep sea fishing or any other risky occupation, nothing would make the hairs on my neck stand up more than being a deep earth miner.

The All Blacks are wearing white armbands in memoriam. Somehow that makes perfect sense.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/11/22/why_is_vodka_40_percent_alcohol/ The Russian czar Ivan the Terrible (1546-1584) introduced a monopoly on vodka production, making the government responsible for quality. The law apparently allowed barkeeps who watered down vodka to be be...

Here's another article, by Max Watman, about the experimental work at Buffalo Trace.

Building the Perfect Bourbon at Buffalo Trace

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-watma ... 81714.html

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http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20101114/LIFESTYLE/11140368/1024" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow has a lot more info I have no problem with this since his widow is involved. Seriously doubt if he left her an annuity or a portfolio of stocks and ...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/11/13/man-19-guilty-of-making-booze.html?sid=101 A recent check of Rotkiske's Facebook profile showed this comment from him: "ok once I get the distillery up and running to the level i expect, i'll get a good amount of money rolling ...

All I have to say is that article is the first place that I have ever seen the term "cL" referring to volume. I thought that only existed on high-school tests about the metric system. We see milliliters and liters often enough, and I think blood sugar is measured in deciliters, but I've n...

Thought the topic was barley not corn, Dunder. You don't need to boil barley and it gelatinizes at the optimum temp in less than an hour. I've done it at 149F (65C) or thereabouts many times without ever bringing the water to boil and get great conversions with no risk of accidentally denaturing the...

So do most people boil their whiskey wash? I've read both ways. Whether malted or unmalted, barley doesn't need to be boiled, and IMO doesn't benefit from boiling. It takes a little longer to gelatinize at the optimum temperature, but the amount of starch released is higher and the flavor of the fi...

http://www.chevychaser.com/Articles-c-2010-11-03-95875.113117-Moonshine-Reclaimed.html "Our moonshine is a combination of corn and cane sugar," Wright said. "Sugar cane allows us a high yield and clean-flavored alcohol, and then the corn adds that little extra flavor that we were loo...

If you click on the photo, a larger version will (slowly in my case) load.

Note that the bottles are organized alphabetically. Proper treatment of fine booze, well done.

Lets say that this "entity/force/wish" gave you the ability/talent of your choice. The ability to give a woman the theoretical height of romantic and sexual pleasure. Trust me, I wouldn't HAVE to charge, the wealthy ones would tip very well. And since that's a gift, not me asking for it, ...

This is a puzzle/question offered up as an example of the kind of logic problems a software engineer might run into.

Sounds like the kind of logic problem a green grocer might run into to me.


Here's one they ask prospective new hires at MicroSoft:

Why are manholes circular?

I've been spending more time lately poking around the homebrew sites and forums, trying to better understand how to best treat barley. One thing I've seen in more than one place is that the best homebrewers are pretty dedicated to fermenting at the low end of the temperature range of any given yeast...

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Raise a glass to micro-distilleries, which are exploding in popularity across America as demand for craft spirits made from local ingredients grows

Top 5 vodkas--chosen by a Russian guy

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I was asked by a grocery store clerk why the copper scrubbers had to be pure copper and not copper plated or coated, I told them that pure copper won't scratch my pans Take a magnet with you to the store. The plated ones are almost always plated onto magnetic steel. If they're plated onto stainless...

I was going to Albertson's when they had sugar on sale, 40 cents a lb in 5 lb bags but you HAD to buy 10 bags to get that price, so it was no big deal if you bought a large amount. But then the Albertson's closest to me shut down, and the world price of sugar went up, so I don't know if their other ...

I would encourage anyone working with Rye to read Uncle Jesse's discussion of Rye and lactic souring here:

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5548

scroll down past the Scotch part to get to the Rye part

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 83,00.html

(note original date of article)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker's_yeast" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow " Active dry yeast is the form of yeast most commonly available to noncommercial bakers in the United States. It consists of coarse oblong granules of yeast, with live ye...