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hi friends , after a long period i here again ! my 17 lt of rum is ageing but during this period i read a lot the forum ...so a month ago i tried to add a some vanilline sugar sugar (sold for cake) and some cane sugar. i boiled a little of dunder and i poured in 200 grams of sugar and then into the ...

Hello all, Has anyone used just dunder and brown sugar to create a wash? I am hoping to get some more molasses flavor from the dunder without the addition of more molasses. Seems worth a try. Thoughts anyone? Thanks, JB HI , YES it works , and i think that it has enough nutrients , in my experience...

good morning friends, Monday a friend of mine gave me 100 bottles of old chardonnay white wine and while I was running the still i tried the bucaner bob recipe, i boiled the dunder and i mixed with 750 ml of rum. i don't remember how much dunder i tried more or less a wine glass into 750 ml ... YEST...

hi, yesterday night i did the spirit run : 1° i did the butter process with the last fermented dunder 2 days before 2° i charged the still : 34 lt of low wine , 30 lt fermented dunder, +/- 20 lt of infected dunder i Always discarded the foreshot (0,5 lt) of the stripping runs spirit run pure pot sti...

:thumbup: shineon, ..... don't shot me but Yesterday while thinking on how compensate the lost i rejected to add some old wine (i don't want to add grape flavor) and : :idea: i took 10 liter of fresh dunder (good smell) + 5 lt of water + 10 lt of infected dunder ( very very good smell ) + 5 kg of su...

hi , Yesterday night i stripped the fermented dunder, +/- 60 lt , i collected 12 lt of low wine only because (damned me) i fall in sleep and the spirit has overflowed the jug .... :evil: ...... cheers Set the jug in a large tall tray! Guess how I worked that out? Geoff eh!!! you are right :thumbup:...

hi , Yesterday night i stripped the fermented dunder, +/- 60 lt , i collected 12 lt of low wine only because (dammned me) i fall in sleep and the spirit has overflowed the jug .... :evil: i slept 2 hours so i lost +/- 3 or maybe 4 liter of low wine , the only positive things is that i was on the end...

YES I understand it.... i asked because i'm afraid about distilling also the yeast : in the past i never used yeast , i had only to add sugar to my fruit to let them start fermenting (wild yeast that for me were unknown ) the last year i added bread yeast to my apple mash to have a faster fermentati...

I heat yeast and all, that and all the solids in the molasses is where I believe the buttery notes come from. I've never after one failed attempt try to clear my rum washes. Just make sure the wash is finished, I have a 45 gal ss pot that I heat mine up in so I don't have to do it back to back in t...

hi all, shine like you know i'm making my experimental rum and i 'm very interested about your " butter process " that i want try it : when fermetation is completed and you load the boiler to do the " heat rest" do you heat the yeast also ?

hi friends,still reading a lot of threads i realized that this is a work in progress recipe and i post here to help myself to have a record and if all goes right i can in the future make a true proven recipe. i also hope that someone is interested in my experiment... like you know after the first st...

yes i understand , thought the fermented dunder was accidental ... ( it started fermentig when i put with the left over wash ) and at this point i have to give it a chance....

22 lt low wine + 34 fermented dunder +15 infected dunder i'll post the result

cheers and thks

the infected dunder is growing up
the smell is good

i can use only 15 lt of infected dunder in the spirit run...

Shine0n wrote:
That's alot of dunder in a spirit run, be careful.

AT what dunder are you speaking about ? the fermented one's or the infected one's ?

..no time dammn.. job ! i added another 4 kg of sugar in to the carboy and it is bubbling fast !! ( 1 kg a day). 34 lt of wash/dunder the other dunder carboy i left it start to be infected CAM01004.jpg so now the plan is : 22 lt of low wine + 34 lt of fermented dunder + 20 lt clear infected dunder =...

no time Yesterday but simple add 1 kg of sugar in the carboy of left over wash and dunder and it soon started bubbling fast !
this night i'll boil some water + dunder + sugar to add to this carboy .
cheers

sorry no time to write today

...yes i have 20 lt low wine ! i discarded foreshot and 1,5 lt of head and then i collected untill the abv was 10 to be honest the smell wasn't so good than i expected but now after 4 days it seems better to be honest i collected less than i expected probally the molasses i used had a lot of unferme...

hi guys, it stops fermenting , so i put the wash into the carboys to let it settles. Yesterday i have found an "hydrometer" so i check the FG that is +/- 1,015... this let me think / assume that most of the sugar are been converted ... what you think about ??? (the meter i found has a &quo...

damm weather !!! still raining still cold... but after a week a think's my fermenter is ready : CAM00970.2.jpg AND THIS MORNING , A VERY FEW "fizzz" CAM00973.jpg i'll wait untill Tomorrow then i put the wash in the carboys, i'll wash the fermenter ( my still pot) i 'll do a stripping run a...

hi , it is still bubbling a lot less but still fermenting ... the weather was bad a so the temperature was 15-16° C slowing down the process.... anyway i'll wait !!! my plan is to do a stripping run down to 5% like suggested then spirit run with some dunder and rum oils . i'm curios to try removing ...

tanks a lot !!!! i'll study!!!

Good to have ya, also glad to see you doing rum. If time isn't an issue I just finished reading about Hamden rums and they do a longer open fermentation to help out with the esterification, you're I'm sure not the same climate but it could help with the flavors some imho. You're correct, sooo much ...

...so i said to myself: start !! IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY LEARN ABOUT IT :thumbup: +1 Hope it works out for you Zio. Rum is easy to make, making it taste the way you want is a little harder, more molasses will give you a bolder flavour. It wouldnt hurt to put a little epsom salts in your wash t...

hi guys, after reading hundreds of post (one month or more) i finally start my rum experiment !!! to be honest i had....no i still have a lot of confusion because too much information , too much !!! ...so i said to myself: start !! IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY LEARN ABOUT IT I want make dark rum , s...

The Baker wrote:Drop a ball bearing through the coil to check it is level all the way.

Geoff

good idea !!! I'll try it

thank's for the imput guys , i'll try to remake/adjust a better spiral , so Yesterday i did the first cleaning run!!!! 8) it seems to run good!! 1 gal source water , 1/2 gal heads / feints . i run it for 3 hours ! even the condenser coil seems to be ok but i 'll try to adjust the "low spots&quo...

hi guys, one step more : the condenser is done CAM008281.jpg CAM00830.jpg CAM00831.jpg it looks not beauty like most i see here but i hope it will do the job ! what a "pain" making the coil.... it is 10 mt long 9 circle , the copper pipe is 14 mm out, the drum is a 60 lt lubricant oil type...

hi guys , before having discovered this forum "grains" were a big mistery for me . (starch , enzimes , yeast) but i Always fermeted my fuits "mash" with the help of wild yeast ( also without know anything about). to be honest i didn't even know they exist !!!! whether they were a...

ok well, i'll do!
thank's

as acfixer69 and moonbreath have suggested i'll try some loose copper mesh but please what means "......Better have a handle on reservoir temp or that thermometer (and your reflux) will be all over the place ifn you gotta chase it. Prolly want that outside coil good n cool....." and "...