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I made a bunch of blueberry lemonade cordial for the holidays.

It's quite good on ice or with some soda water.

I planning on making a rye whiskey next.
I haven't decided if it'll be 100% or more a rye/corn/malt mix.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

I think you can probably get away with it for a while but it would eventually catch up with you. A few months ago I was really stressed out from work etc... was having a cocktail to relax, and after a few weeks I realized I had been having several big strong cocktails every night. I wasn't getting d...

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Long day today.
I finally did a feints vodka run.
Also racked the recently made wine and put it away.

I'm realizing I've got way more booze made them I'll probably ever be able to drink.

I really need to start giving it away.

I pressed out some zinfandel grapes yesterday, after a two week fermentation. 3x36# cases of grapes ended up with about 10 gallons of "wine". Started a sugar wash on the grape skins, will use that for a fake grappa. I did the same thing last year but really screwed up the cuts and ended pu...

I started some strawberry panty dropper.
2 quarts of 95% feints vodka,
4#s frozen strawberries,
2 split and scraped vanilla beans,
Not sure how much sugar I'll end up using...
And I need to pick up a lemon.

I bottled a 5g barrel of rum. It was the second fill, but it was in there for 2 years. The first fill was a chocolate bourbon for 2 years. It did mellow out a lot. The molasses flavor is not as agressive. I don't love it, it's fine. Great for cocktails, but not a sipper. Blends in with the other fla...

Nice looking setup!

My son and I decided to tag team and start a new hobby. Due to work neither of us have tons of time so we purchased a still from North Georgia Still. We think it should fit with our needs into the future. Did we over kill? That's some nice looking copper! My setup works fine but it's not very pretty.

You should do both and let us know.

I finally made my port style mead. I made 1.5 gallons of 60% honeyshine. Then, a while later, we had another baby, and some more time later, I started a mead fermentation. 2 gallons of honey, water to 1.14 about 6 gallons total 15g 71b yeast, 25grams go ferm, 35 grams fermaid o. Let it ferment down ...

Sorry for your loss.
Lost mine about two years ago now.
I still get sad sometimes.
But not as much as before.
So it does get easier over time.

I hope the likker comes out great!

Brewed up a partial mash Franziskaner kit since I had an empty keg slot since Xmas. It's in my 6 gal Torpedo Keg pressure fermenter. Did a sugarhead on the 'spent' grains to make a small batch of whiskey! I have a just over a liter of product oaking on this same process from the Blue Moon clone I d...

Make your cuts by flavor and aroma.
The foreshots or the heads are not any more poisonous than the other fractions.

Didn't make anything new, but finally dumped and botted a 5 gallon barrel of bourbon.

Made it to the two year plus a couple days mark.

I refilled the barrel with Purple Barley Whiskey.

The bourbon is pretty good.
Smells pretty fruity.
Carmen and vanilla as usual, some tannin.

Interesting.
Maybe acidify the mash with lactic acid then?

If the vapor tube doesn't go below the surface of the liquid in the "thumper" then it's more of a slobber box to catch puking. Still useful but will not increase abv much if at all.

It burns easily.
So it's difficult to cook, mash, distill on direct heat without burning.
Steam is your friend.
Or a double boiler or jacketed setup.

Looks like it worked pretty well!

Hmmm... You guys have got me wondering if I should use a barrel for a third fill.

It had bourbon for about 18 months,
Rum now for going almost 18 months.

My plan was to fill it with purple barley whiskey next.

I finally did the second blue corn mash.

50# blue corn
20# 6 row barley malt
5# honey malt
Voss yeast

I used my steam cooker this time.
Much less stressful than using direct heat.
I'll definitely be doing that again in the future.

I made a sugarhead on the pressed grapes from my recent wine batch, but I did a bad job on the cuts. It's pretty nasty.
Way too much tails.
Multi tasking...
I'm just gonna throw the whole thing in to the feints jar for a future vodka run.

I also had a rough start dealing with corn.
Congrats on figuring it out!

Booze can be a cause of high triglycerides as well. I cut way back after seeing my triglycerides being through the roof. I'm down to a few servings once every week or two. Triglycerides are back to normal now. One benefit is it's easier to stock up when you're not drinking every day. I'm running out...

I have one on my counter that I use for pouring cocktails.
I just fill out with whatever whenever is gets low.
I guess its an infinity barrel?

I aim for 25% low wines, collect the spirit run in jars and try to blend without checking proof, always end up around 60%.

17 or 18.
Chugging a bottle of Margaritaville tequila.

I had a similar experience a while back. I threw some funky dunder in to a big fermentation. Smelled strongly of vinegar after a few days, still sweet though, like a really funky sweet and sour sauce. I started checking the ph, could not keep it up. My suspicion is the acetobacter infection was prod...

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/wholesome-sweeteners-50-lb-natural-demerara-sugar/104991829.html Does that look like the right stuff? Or maybe this one? https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/product/food/sweeteners/sugar-cane/turbinado/demerara-sugar-natural-turbinado-style/11386?package=SW034 Edit: I...

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