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The best tip I’ve read on here about a good whiskey tails cut is doing the “rubbing test” on your hands, allowing the ethanol to evaporate. The nasty stuff really rears it’s ugly head and will smell like dirty socks etc in an other wise “okay” jar. There’s an odd fine line between the good smell of...

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Frenzy I turned the photo for you. Your still is just what we call a pot still here, column stills have packing or plates in the column. Good to see that your product outlet is a decent distance from the gas burner :thumbup: good move safety wise. Most people with pots strip the wash first then run...

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Thanks for the response. I thought perhaps there was some generalizable knowledge, regardless of setup. I'm a novice, I realize now that assumption was faulty.

ps - no idea why the photo was turned after attaching...

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Sorry if I’m being dense, but if I removed the heads and most tails the first time, wouldn’t there be a lower proportion of each the next time?

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Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 1:16 pm No mention of what type of still......or what product your trying to make...........hard to answer questions like that without all relevant information.

Whiskey, column still

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Greetings. What are your thoughts (eg pros/cons) of various approaches: 1. Several stripping runs to a single spirit run 2. One stripping run combined with a new wash 3. Others? I’ve done the first but wonder if I’m loosing flavor. I’m planning on doing 2 soon but wonder if it will not be as pure/sm...

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Hi all. I’m in a similar boat, went wide on the tails. Aged for a year and meh.

When diluted and re-run, would you expect much larger portion of hearts?

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Thanks for the responses. Still curious how the taste would differ if I replaced wheat for corn or malted wheat for malted barley. Thinking it will just need experimentation and that I’ll start with a makers mark type grain bill, approximately 70% corn, and about 15% each of malted wheat and barley....

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I was thinking about experimenting with adding rye or wheat to my standard AG whiskey (basically NCHooch’s ). Any thoughts on how to , for example, add a bit of rye ? What I don’t get is, does it replace some of the corn? If so, would it be unmalted rye? A related question is, if you need sugars, do...

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I did not do those things... time to up my game, it seems. Thanks Did you check your conversion with iodine? If it was totally converted 1.080SG is strong. What yeast? If it stalls probably will be low ph. Throw some crushed oyster shells in there and it will boil up showing it was needing calcium.

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Curious, I’ve done a couple 5 gal stripping runs, stopping just below 10 abv and getting between 1/2 and 3/4 gal of product. Is that in line with y’all’s experience? Just curious if I need to refine my process.

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Thanks for reporting back on this! Ok gang, I just returned from Tractor Supply with the "NEW" All Grain Feed that comes in a brown bag now instead of the purple bag. EVERYTHING is identical on the PRODUCER'S PRIDE ALL GRAIN tag EXCEPT they no longer put Barley in it according to the ingre...

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Anyone else notice that the infamous purple bag of all grain feed from Tractor Supply no longer exists on their webpage? Instead this grey/brown bag appears... https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-all-grain-feed-50-lb Why is TS messing with us? It look over 100 pages of comments...

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That is helpful indeed, thank you!

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Hi there Cranky, thank you for sharing! I'm in the mountains of Virginia and I sometimes get lucky enough to run into locals who don't bother with their apple trees -- I too am a "freegan". Mind a few questions? in regards to ageing your brandy: 1. at what ABV? 2. what ABV do you tend to d...

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VLAGAVULVIN wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:55 am
frenzy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:08 am and other assorted creatures, if any.

Lol, are Russians acceptable?..
maybe the question should be whether you want to associate with our embarrassingly silly species or not...

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Tummydoc wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:29 pm With a father in law like that, your wife's a keeper!

indeed! He's the quintessential hillbilly. can do anything (including helping us build our house)

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Ooo, awesome info cayars -- thank you!

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Thanks yall.

fizzix, my still was modelled after the clawhammer design -- he built himself a 10 gal, and lucky for me,had some copper left over.

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Thanks for the great recipe! Would someone mind offering an opinion (also for a 5-gal still) -- I hope to use the ingredients I have, and wonder what order you would suggest adding them. -10 lbs flaked corn -2 lbs 2-row malted barley -2 lbs 6-row malted barley You think it best to just add all the b...

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and other assorted creatures, if any. I live in the Appalachian mountains, and thought it time to try my hand at some shining. I have brewed plenty of beer in the past, but as I advance in years my preference for whiskeys has emerged triumphant. My father in law built me a 5 gallon column still that...

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