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Hi guys, I've just measured my pH that look to be around 4/5! What's the best pH for fermenting? Is it too acid? At pH 4.5 to pH 5.0 you’ll be OK. With the corn flakes, you may not need to add buffering as the flakes themselves help with that. If your pH is at 4.0, then it wouldn’t hurt to add some...

Yeah! I Just sipped it!
Just found that I've a lot of that tangerine taste but I love it! Really like bombay!

Hi guys, I've just measured my pH that look to be around 4/5!

What's the best pH for fermenting? Is it too acid?

Hi guys! Today I've just distilled my gin! Smell awesome ! I'm not going to sip it right now , I'll wait some weeks meanwhile I've another 1lt of bw neutral that I'm going to macerate with junipers! I was thinking , what about distilling a bought alcohol like everclear? I spent the last year learni...

Hi guys!
Today I've just distilled my gin!
Smell awesome ! I'm not going to sip it right now , I'll wait some weeks meanwhile I've another 1lt of bw neutral that I'm going to macerate with junipers!

I was thinking , what about distilling a bought alcohol like everclear?

In my opinion he's using tangerine because of the bite taste of the oranges! I'm going to think that leaving the orange peel in warm water over the night will remove that bite taste from 'em!
Just in my opinion!

Your gravity was good. Temperature's good. You had some activity so we can assume yeast is good. You fed it some nutrients. Had you aerated the wash? Yeast need oxygenated liquid for their first phase. dieselduo just may be right with pH being the issue. Have you got some litmus strips to test it? ...

dieselduo wrote:What was your og? What is the ph?

Cannot measure pH but I've added something like half lemon to the wash!
Og was 1.07!

I've added some tomato paste for vitamine A but nothing!

I should buy something to measure pH!

Hi guys! It's something like 2 weeks fermenting and everything is stuck to 1.06 sg! Had loooow bubble so I've Added 10gr of yeast and just had a little bit more bubble but nothing more! What about? Maybe [EAR OF MAIZE] cornflakes without A vitamins? Temperature is just good, and I can't understand w...

Finished spirit run on Sunday! Discharged 250ml of head! Had about 20 jar filled with 50ml on the head and 100ml where I could smell the heart! Finished with something like 800ml of 70% when mixed with some tails/head. Had something like 1.5ml of 40% neutral spirit. Made 1lt of Odin's easy gin(just ...

I don't recall a sulfur smell of any kind with mine. Infections happen more with grains than processed ingredients like sugar and cornflakes. 1.070 is a good original gravity reading, and unless you really drove into the weeds with your preparation this should come out OK. Don't screw with it and d...

My wash is going on but it has a strange smell,sulfur I think,maybe infected? Sg is strange! Was 1.07 but hydrometer goes up now till 1.07 since it has a lot of bubble!

Just made my batch made from neutral spirit from birdwatcher sugar wash! Had only 1lt of spirit at 40%! I'm so excited! Hope it will turn out awesome as yours! As long as you stay strict with the instructions, it'll be perfect. And it does get better with the conditioning rest too. Don't dismiss th...

Just made my batch made from neutral spirit from birdwatcher sugar wash! Had only 1lt of spirit at 40%!
I'm so excited! Hope it will turn out awesome as yours!

Wow! That's an awesome work m8! A really awesome guide, perfect made and perfect explained! I've some grapes strips , I'm about doing your raki since I've also some anise star! Will it be the same?! Don't u think that 3% of foreshot and 17% heads are too much? I'm new to distilling and I'm not able ...

Just made that wash!
Waited till now for the mash to cool down and just added the yeast, mixed baking (30gr) and bread yeast(5gr) for 20lt wash!

I'm so excited since this is my second wash after the birdwatching sugar wash!

I'll update you asap!

Hi cuginosgrizzo!
Your nick looks so... Italian! do you have some Italian ancestors?!

I'll! I'm reading and asking continuously! I want to learn, i've just done a sugarwash and just stilled the first 9/25 lt ,

I hope that 'll be good!
My wish is to make some good Rum and brandy , since i love 'em!

Hi oldvine! That's awesome! Have you ever returned to garfagnaga?! i was there more or less in november '16! nice to meet you!

I've just done my first stripping run , Collected 120ml more or less of foreshot for 9lt pot still and collected everthing till 96° . just had 1000ml without cut but foreshot. I'm going to distill the other 9lt tomorrow for the other stripping run, Now i expect 2000ml more or less of liquid without ...

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Hi people! That's my First run today! After reading and reading till my eyes started to bleed i decided to go with my First run! So,here we go! Now I'm at about 92° and I've done 6 cut of 50ml! Charged the still with 4liters of wine , something like 8% I think! How I'm I going?! I'm going to throw a...

I gave up on trying to go by specific numbers a long time ago. I think foreshots and other cuts are one of those things you just have to learn by trying. It's usually pretty easy to tell the forshots from the acetone smell, other cuts can be harder especially with fruit but there is no specific set...

fizzix wrote:Here's a whole bunch on fruit and foreshots:Fruit & Foreshots

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You're right! That's fine! Thanks

Awesome job guys , appreciate all the job! my eyes are almost bleeding! but i keep working and reading!
Thanks a lot! really a nice job!

Hi guys, Since i've some Apple and pear laying around i was thinking about a bit of mash for something like a brandy I was Reading and Reading about that but i didn't understand something, does fruit mash produce more methanol and other unhealty things?! What quantity do you think is to throw away f...

sltm1 wrote:That's purdy, what kind of fittings ar they?

I used copper fittings , i don't know how are they called but basically there's a big nipper that clamp and tighten them togheter with using any solder, i've Just added some solder is some places for sure!
(Sorry for my english, i'm italian!)

That's mine Just fine today for 7€!! I didn't tried yet but i think It Will work fine!

nuntius01 wrote:welcome, and good luck this weekend

Thank you m8!!!

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Ok guys , i'm going to excuse me for the "Novice question" in that post!

i'm reading A little spoon feeding *For New & Novice Distillers and that novice material!

Thanks a lot people!
keep good!
see you soon!

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