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Not really sure where to put this post. I was thinking HBB thread but it didn't really feel right then I thought about Jimbo's wheated bourbon and gumballhead but "no" again. So I'll put it here and know it might be moved. I've been using HBB as one of my staples for years now and barreling what I c...

Thanks for the advice. I woke up this morning and found it in three days my mouth dropped to .997 so it appears that I did some thing correct in this last batch. I also have a little space heater in the laundry room turned distillery that I kept around 83° forThe duration of the fermentation. Thanks...

Mornin... I started stilling about eight years ago and have had great success with the tried and true recipes here as well as a few modifications of my own. I still all grains and neutrals in a three inch pot and thumper as well as a four inch flute (15.5 gal and 26 gal boilers on hand). In addition...

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NZChris wrote:What I've said already.

Damn. Not sure how I missed that. Maybe I need some more sleep. Thanks NZ

I don’t have a gin basket but would love to try this out. I have about five gallons of 70% set aside for gin experiments. What quantities would you use to macerate this out?

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Wed Jun 10, 2020 6:22 pm

Fusel oils coming out of suspension. What is your bottle proof? I always bottled at 94 proof to help avoid this. I did have some bottled at 80 get a little. A quick shake clears it up.

45% for the rye...43% for the bourbon

[align=][/align] So this is the second time this is happened. A few years ago I finished my first barrel aged rye, aged two years in a barrel. I poured it out of the barrel through wire mesh to get the big chunks out and then filtered everything through coffee filters and achieved clean Product. It ...

I had that same idea years ago. I even got the paperwork started. I made some inquiries and a Lady, who was very nice, from the liquor control board called me and told me that I needed a serial number on my still. I told her that I didn’t have one and she said that I could just put one on it and the...

Those are pretty tough to bend back level once bent out. When I made my keg boiler I went a bit overboard. Check out my boiler build in my early posts. I have never regretted putting an 8” triclamp fitting on the top of my keg and buying an 8”-2” reducer. It also gives me headspace for foaming. If I...

Hi SS. Welcome to the forum. I will say that with a pot and a thumper I can make a damn fine gin. I run a sugar wash twice through my pot and thumper, make tight cuts, and I get a very clean likker out of it. I know a lot of people say it is not a neutral and it really isn’t but the flavor is great ...

Anyone else here into poetry or philosophy? I vascilate between Tennyson and Kipling. Every time I read Tennyson I swear he’s my favorite and then I will read Kipling and I will change my mind-back-and-forth it goes. It’s been that way for years. Every once in a while I’ll get a blue hair and think ...

‘cept, I suggest saving up a little longer and getting this one: https://milehidistilling.com/product/8-gallon-still-with-2-inch-dual-purpose-tower/ You’ll outgrow a 3 gallon boiler in a heartbeat. ss I second this recommendation if you’re not going to build. You can reflux a bit with it and am eig...

Hey J, That is basically identical to the first still that I ever had. I can tell you that you will quickly become frustrated with trying to keep the condenser level adjusted. You also have to add some valves and some sort of circulation component to keep that water flowing through the condenser. I ...

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Hey. I haven't posted in a long time...life got in the way. But I'm back and have some time available now. Glad to see, er read, that you all are doing well. I recently cracked open my first Still Life Rye that I had aging in a three gallon barrel. Two years! Man did it take discipline to leave it i...

I've been searching around but gone for a while. Is there a current (US measurement) version of the T&T recipe book? Still on my TODO-list, been busy with a bunch of other stuff lately. My motivation took a bit of a dive with the realization that i'll have to re-claculate many recipes, scale them t...

I've been searching around but gone for a while. Is there a current (US measurement) version of the T&T recipe book?

it's alive!!!..... and growing...

So about 5 gallons of rum Dunder from my last Butter Rum. I covered it with a little cheese cloth and let it sit in the garage. Now there's some sort of marble-sized white things floating in it. Does anyone know what this maybe or if this might be a beneficial infection? The smell is still as strong...

school wrote:If I wanted to do this with flaked maize instead of cracked corn, is it just a 1:1 substitution? Thanks.

I ran this recipe a while back using flaked Maize in a one-to-one substitute and it turned out great

Copperhead road wrote:I don’t think you will get good flavour carryover with using limited fruit and sugar.

well hell. back to the drawing board I guess

Tater wrote:More like sugar shine with lil watermelon.

maybe next time I'll up the watermelon. money is the issue there

So I figured I'd give a go with a watermelon shine recipe. From what I found I can get just under a gallon of liquid per watermelon. here goes... 10 gallon wash 10 large watermelons 2 lbs raisins white sugar (roughly 10 lbs) I cut the watermelons in half and then used a long knife to cut the peel of...

I run a 15 gallon keg boiler and a 5 gallon keg Thumper. I also have another 15 gallon keg that can be run as a thumper for large stripping runs.. having run them both normally I run the thumper that is one third the size of my boiler but it is on the small side and I use it for convenience. The sup...

OK did my stripping run and let it air out for a few days. Butter bomb indeed! Time to rerun it a second time for cuts but the only concern I have is that I have about 1 gallon - 5 litres - from this run and it won't cover my element in my keg Suggestions? When running my last gin I had success put...

jon1163 wrote:May I suggest Shineon's rye recipe as well. It's a fantastic Rye and it would be good to have some ryes in the recipe book

still life's rye I meant... and shine ons butter rum for sure

Hey Jon/Shine - with the butter, does the rum flavor still come through the butter? I never thought of asking this but with all the talk of butter and John's description of dunder at night, all butter in the morning, did the rum/molasses flavors disappear? it's rummy. I never got overpowering butte...

calculate it by volume. mathematically weight each volume measurement by the alcohol content.

OK did my stripping run and let it air out for a few days. Butter bomb indeed! Time to rerun it a second time for cuts but the only concern I have is that I have about 1 gallon - 5 litres - from this run and it won't cover my element in my keg Suggestions? When running my last gin I had success put...