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- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:48 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: CCVM cleaning run is... FRUITY??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 185
Re: CCVM cleaning run is... FRUITY??
Oh man, that's pretty awesome, makes sense now. I love mead, make a few batches and year, but don't have anything that old. I pay a lot per gallon of honey so I definitely coitus not being myself to distill it. Several people have mentioned making honey likker and really loving it. I think Croatian ...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 9:39 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: CCVM cleaning run is... FRUITY??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 185
Re: CCVM cleaning run is... FRUITY??
You wasted one of the most expensive washes you could make on a cleaning run?
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:28 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: My Home Cousin's Process Plan
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1013
Re: My Home Cousin's Process Plan
Hmm.... so I should do my normal fermentations but use the old dunder in the spirit run and thumper?
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:21 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: My Home Cousin's Process Plan
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1013
Re: My Home Cousin's Process Plan
What's your "old dunder"? Just dunder infected by whatevers in the air in your area and then given some time to get funky for a while? I've got about 5 gallons of funky stuff from last year. I took dunder and added oyster shells, sugar, fruit, dry malt extract, a bottle of lambic beer. Left it uncov...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 7:52 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello from the desert!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 125
Re: Hello from the desert!
Seems like lots of AZ folks joining lately.
If you're in to single malt, AZ grown and malted barley: https://sinaguamalt.com/
And these guys: http://www.grainrandd.com/
And also note that winco usually sells cornmeal and steel cut oats at a reasonable price.
Welcome!
If you're in to single malt, AZ grown and malted barley: https://sinaguamalt.com/
And these guys: http://www.grainrandd.com/
And also note that winco usually sells cornmeal and steel cut oats at a reasonable price.
Welcome!
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:53 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello from Arizona
- Replies: 9
- Views: 166
Re: Hello from Arizona
Welcome!
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:08 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: My Home Cousin's Process Plan
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1013
Re: My Home Cousin's Process Plan
Very cool, thanks for documenting this.
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:57 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello from Isle of Man!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 164
Re: Hello from Isle of Man!
There's plenty to learn on here, welcome!
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:35 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: My first all-grain/on the grain project
- Replies: 5
- Views: 201
Re: My first all-grain/on the grain project
Mashing at a lower temperature should make a more fermentable mash, might help you get a lower final gravity and a higher yield. I add the malted grains at 148, so the mash will be like 145 and then I let the trmp drop over night and have had no problems. Maybe 10 or 15 mashes that way now? You don'...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:48 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Whiskey Dunder Pit
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2684
Re: Whiskey Dunder Pit
It's on my list of stuff to experiment with but I haven't started yet. Still finishing up a chocolate bourbon run... To be more specific, my plan is to make a "Heavy Jamaican Korn Likker", try to follow something in line with the cousins process but with a corn whiskey base. I'm hoping somebody else...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:14 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Distillation attentiveness
- Replies: 20
- Views: 385
Re: Distillation attentiveness
I generally stay in the stillin shed and a read a book or pick at my guitar. I might go inside for a bio break or to get water etc... I'm mainly afraid of what might happen if my condenser malfunctions and fills my stillin shed with high proof alcohol vapor. Could it explode? I have no idea... and I...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:58 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Thumper filled up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 208
Re: Thumper filled up
No problem, good luck!astrotraveler wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:06 pmAh Ha! Thank you so much - I never saw anything about insulating the thumper! Makes perfect sense. I'm looking forward to running batch #2. thank you
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:58 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Thumper filled up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 208
Re: Thumper filled up
The more energy you're losing through the walls of the thumper the more volume/energy you have to add to complete your run.
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:54 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Thumper filled up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 208
Re: Thumper filled up
Either it's not well enough insulated or its too small. I have a steam stripper system set up, the steam boiler is 8 gallons, the mash boiler is 16 gallons. I put about 11 gallons of mash in the mash boiler. If I don't insulate the mash boiler then it fills up and starts puking before I can collect ...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:55 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: New to group
- Replies: 2
- Views: 68
Re: New to group
Welcome!
Ya, this area is for introductions. Spend a lot of time reading on the wiki and in the new distiller area, then ask questions.
You're in the right place though, I've been in here pretty regularly for about a year and I still learn new stuff by reading old posts.
Ya, this area is for introductions. Spend a lot of time reading on the wiki and in the new distiller area, then ask questions.
You're in the right place though, I've been in here pretty regularly for about a year and I still learn new stuff by reading old posts.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:04 pm
- Forum: Mashing, fermenting, flavoring and aging related hardware
- Topic: Barrel aging in a Patio Table
- Replies: 12
- Views: 406
Re: Barrel aging in a Patio Table
That would be a really cool table though.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 1:09 pm
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: Deciding on 3/4 column height,any advice??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 131
Re: Deciding on 3/4 column height,any advice??
Sounds like you want to build a pot still. I don't believe there's any benefit to having a tall column on a pot still. If it were me, I would make it just tall enough to get whatever angle I wanted on the condenser. Whatever the desired condenser angle, surely the column wouldn't need to be 3 feet h...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:43 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: Very, very high ester whiskey?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 273
Re: Very, very high ester whiskey?
I was just wondering about this after reading your cousins rum thread. After this current run is done I'm going to have a few pounds of this, a few pounds of that left over and a bunch of corn, was thinking about trying to make a "Heavy Jamaican Style Korn Likker" as an experiment. I need to pick up...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:35 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Howdy From Phoenix, AZ (USA)!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 91
Re: Howdy From Phoenix, AZ (USA)!
Welcome!
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:55 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: wondering if I'm heading in the right direction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 447
Re: wondering if I'm heading in the right direction
You might also consider a similarly sized stainless milk can from Amazon. You would have to make a hole in the lid and add a triclamp adapter but having a bigger opening makes them easier to clean.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:53 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: greetings from steel city
- Replies: 5
- Views: 83
Re: greetings from steel city
Welcome!
Distilling is a fun extension of the beer brewing hobby for sure.
Distilling is a fun extension of the beer brewing hobby for sure.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:51 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 5160
- Views: 347457
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Started the final mash for filling my first 5 gallon barrel.
I've got two more stripping runs and two more spirit runs to go and I should be ready to fill that sucker!
I've got two more stripping runs and two more spirit runs to go and I should be ready to fill that sucker!
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Diastatic power of green corn malt
- Replies: 9
- Views: 230
Re: Diastatic power of green corn malt
You mentioned that you wanted to use the right amount of green corn malt to make sure you get to 1.06 instead of only 1.05 so I thought you might be a little confused. Nobody can tell you the diastatic power of the corn that you malted. It depends on how much protein the corn started out with, what ...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:42 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Diastatic power of green corn malt
- Replies: 9
- Views: 230
Re: Diastatic power of green corn malt
SG is really more dependent on grain to water ratio. The more stuff you've got dissolved in the same amount of water, the higher the SG. The enzymes just convert the starches to sugars. So the enzymes really determine the FG (final gravity) more than the SG(starting gravity). So if you want a higher...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:04 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: My first.
- Replies: 127
- Views: 2516
Re: My first.
Also, I feel your pain on the "one mash at a time" problem. I did finally get 2x12g fermenters so I can have 2 going all the time. That helps a little. A 40 gallon brute is on my wishlist for sure though.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:33 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: My first.
- Replies: 127
- Views: 2516
Re: My first.
I got this bourbon on the recommendation of the guy at the liquor store and I'm not really a big fan. I drink bushmills red label straight at room temperature no ice but this one so far the way I like it best is in hot chocolate. It is really oakey and sorta sour. IMG_20210101_202325984.jpg Ive not...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:11 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: New Years. What Did You Sip
- Replies: 27
- Views: 499
Re: New Years. What Did You Sip
Lemoncello and sweet tea, lemoncello and soda.
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:11 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: whats your music
- Replies: 1863
- Views: 109684
Re: whats your music
HateBreed's 2020 album is pretty good.
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:48 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: French Canadian newbie
- Replies: 10
- Views: 206
Re: French Canadian newbie
Welcome ay!
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:40 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: What to do with the feints?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 176
Re: What to do with the feints?
I put my reflux column on my still and run them through that. I use it for flavored stuff. Lemoncello, apple pie etc... Done it twice so far and enjoyed the results. I toss the feints from that run though.