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“My spirit run is as follows. There is no need to use Distillers Conditioning in the spirit run. 50ml foreshots - discard 250ml heads - normally at 78-80% - are put in a container labelled 'heads'. 500ml hearts - normally about 74-75% then I collect the tails down to 60%. I calculate this by collect...

Study Kiwistiller's guide to cuts and follow it. Brilliant thanks NZChris, that’s the post I’ve been searching for but didn’t know who posted it. I’m looking forward to practicing the smell/taste cut and blending, but as this is my first attempt I have no idea what it’s going to be like. Read expre...

Thank you for replying. Yes I’m aware the above is quite frowned upon, but I have been lent an Airstill so just have to start somewhere. I was hoping to attract answers from the people who wrote the info on 2 runs through Airstill. I have been out this week, bought some flaked maize and champagne ye...

Sorry newbie question I am following a couple of threads on 2nd distill with AirStill. from stripping run I now have watered down 9 litres at 30% Question All threads talk about from 4 litres discard 50 ml Foreshots and 250 ml heads. So, if I use 3 runs of 3 litres does Foreshots and heads alter acc...

So my recipe looked like this: 4 x Gallons of Water 5.6 Ibs of Sugar 5.6 Ibs of Cracked Corn Yeast (I used a couple tablespoons worth) First, I measured out the corn and dumped that into the empty bucket. Then, I measured out the sugar and did the same. Finally, I added the water and mixed it up rea...

Hi all, love the hobby. Helping my wife make wine.
Anyway hi to you all and if I ask a question that I have missed on the forum already, please accept my apologies in advance

Hami