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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Newbie question; best use for corn mash leftover after squeezing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 119
Re: Newbie question; best use for corn mash leftover after squeezing
You can make a sugarhead, or feed em to the hogs, or compost them.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: General Stilling questions
- Topic: ? on tails
- Replies: 23
- Views: 416
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Random Pics
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4298
Re: Random Pics
For those of you making mezcal / tequila... AgaveBat.jpg These bats are apparently threatened by the excessive demand for agave, which leads to plants being cut down before they mature enough to flower. Which means the bat gets no food. There are apparently responsible growers who leave a percentag...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: Wheated bourbon
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1278
Re: Wheated bourbon
Can you buy an agitator for it?The Booze Pipe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:20 pm I just purchased a 26 gallon milk can for striping. Can it be modified to strip on steam?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: My first..... I dunno what this is, any help?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 198
Re: My first..... I dunno what this is, any help?
The infection (if it is one) would come on the grain. But that doesn't look like an infection to me. It just looks like the co2 is bubbling up through the grain cap.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Filling a second 5 gallon barrel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2327
Re: Filling a second 5 gallon barrel
I did a 2nd fill barrel mill of 50/50 2 row pale and Marris Otter that I left for 18 months, and it was phenomenal. (Still hoarding a half gallon of it) You must really like Vanilla if you're thinking of adding beans to a 2nd fill barrel. I still got plenty of Vanilla on my 3rd fill of that barrel w...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: SCD's Crow Bourbon
- Replies: 207
- Views: 33856
Re: SCD's Crow Bourbon
Wait till you have them try the CROW after a year or two of proper aging. IMHO, CROW is better than HBB. It's just a tad more work and Oats make the mash a suck to squeeze and clear.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Any ideas for old Malted Barley?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 375
Re: Any ideas for old Malted Barley?
I'd use it, with enzymes of course, and I'd make a single malt with it. Age it for at least a year on oak. If it didn't show promise, I'd turn it into vodka.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 737510
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Finally made time to strip a ferment of 75/13/12 bourbon for a Badmo fill. I'm just about through the first boiler charge. The weather is getting warmer, and I have a lot to do outside this spring. Hopefully I can get in at least one more fermentation of HBB to age for a year on sticks on its way to...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Marble magic and a theory yet to be proven
- Replies: 64
- Views: 2313
Re: Marble magic and a theory yet to be proven
I've been toying with the idea of trying 10mm marbles in my 2" column, but haven't pulled the trigger. I need to figure out how many I need to fill 43 inches.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: 2" to 3" boiler adaptor
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: 2" to 3" boiler adaptor
I currently have a 2.5" column and use a 2.5" - 2" conical reducer to mate if to the keg top. It doesn't appear to cause me issues at all. But if you're going to a 3" column, 42" length is going to be a much bigger concern than a slightly narrow opening at the base. If I wa...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: First spirit run of first all Grain bourbon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 473
Re: First spirit run of first all Grain bourbon
True words.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: First spirit run of first all Grain bourbon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 473
Re: First spirit run of first all Grain bourbon
Congrats on your first all grain spirit run. Nice work. Quick question, did you determine the hearts cut by abv or taste and smell? Your numbers don’t seem too crazy, but I suspect that you’ve cut a bit on the wide side if everything under 80%abv automatically went in the hearts cut. On the contrar...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: New to the community from the PNW.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 240
Re: New to the community from the PNW.
Welcome. There is a healthy contingent of PNW enthusiasts here making some really good products, with a wealth if knowledge. Sounds like you've got a lot of reading to do. Grab a scratch pad, and start taking notes. You can start acquiring all of the other necessary items while you wait on your stil...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Easy Large Batch Mashing
- Replies: 385
- Views: 129396
Re: Easy Large Batch Mashing
My boiler sits on the work bench. I drain boiling water straight into my drum while I mix in the corn.
I start with about 10 pounds of corn in the bottom of the barrel before I open the drain on the boiler.
I gell my 32 pound of corn in 20 gallons of water.
I start with about 10 pounds of corn in the bottom of the barrel before I open the drain on the boiler.
I gell my 32 pound of corn in 20 gallons of water.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: American Single Malt
- Replies: 4
- Views: 643
Re: American Single Malt
I did a pale, and C-75 caramel that's currently in two different badmo barrels with a little under a liter in glass on new charred American oak. Time will tell, but the mashes smelled fantastic. Its only been a couple months since they got put up, and I dont expect to get into them for a couple of y...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Whiskey
- Topic: Wheated bourbon
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1278
Re: Wheated bourbon
Booze, if it makes you feel any better, my average OG is about 1.065 at just under 2.2 pounds of grain per gallon of water. Using the Gluco, you should finish at 1 or below. If it gets down to .990 you'll end up a 9% wash for the still. The bourbon I just squeezed started at 1.063 and finished at .9...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Easy Large Batch Mashing
- Replies: 385
- Views: 129396
Re: Easy Large Batch Mashing
Thanks for the math higgins. :thumbup: Booze Pipe, the gluco will help by continuing to converts starches to sugar during fermentation. I assume you are mashing in the 50 gallon kettle over a flame. How is it that you cant reach temps over 165F? If I pour 212 degree water into dry corn meal in a pol...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Grains
- Topic: MASSIVE grain sale - Pacific Northwest
- Replies: 14
- Views: 594
Re: MASSIVE grain sale - Pacific Northwest
Yes, but liquid enzymes will do the work.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Easy Large Batch Mashing
- Replies: 385
- Views: 129396
Re: Easy Large Batch Mashing
You can always ease into it if you're unsure, and start off with say 70# of grain in 35 gallons of water and see how much room you have left in your 50 gallon pot.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Easy Large Batch Mashing
- Replies: 385
- Views: 129396
Re: Easy Large Batch Mashing
So I’m not sure how I under-thought this, but I purchased a 50 gallon stainless steel pot for 40 gallon ferments. But it’s definitely too small! After getting into this, I now realize to ferment on the grain, the grain bed takes about 18 gallons of volume. 25# of medium grind cornmeal is equal to 4...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Grains
- Topic: MASSIVE grain sale - Pacific Northwest
- Replies: 14
- Views: 594
Re: MASSIVE grain sale - Pacific Northwest
You know...Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:18 am Sounds like a good opportunity for a group buy to me.
with a PNW meet up just around the corner, this isn't a bad idea.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Texas protecting its citizens
- Replies: 13
- Views: 945
Re: Texas protecting its citizens
Anonymous Tips Has the world changed, or are there just more 'Rat Finks' running around these days? Two threads about liquor or still bust, in HD's forum this morning. One in Johnson City, Tennessee and the other confusingly in Johnson County, Texas. Then the Texas story was linked to another bust ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Texas protecting its citizens
- Replies: 13
- Views: 945
Re: Texas protecting its citizens
The world is full of Karens and Kens who are itchin to turn folks in for not seeing the world through their lens, or because they don't have the cognitive ability to tell the difference between personal liberty, and an unjust law.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Tennessee Seizure
- Replies: 5
- Views: 368
Re: Tennessee Seizure
These are reminders that not everyone views the world through the same lens.
Nobody needs to know how many firearms you own, all your hobbies, your religion, or political views.
The world is full of Karens and Kens itchin to snitch because you don't view the world through their lens.
Nobody needs to know how many firearms you own, all your hobbies, your religion, or political views.
The world is full of Karens and Kens itchin to snitch because you don't view the world through their lens.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Tennessee Seizure
- Replies: 5
- Views: 368
Re: Tennessee Seizure
Don't sell, don't tell.
The neighbor might be your friend today, but tomorrow he could be your worst fucking nightmare
The neighbor might be your friend today, but tomorrow he could be your worst fucking nightmare
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:08 am
- Forum: Meet & Mingle & Events
- Topic: PNW Meet and drink 2023
- Replies: 155
- Views: 12907
Re: PNW Meet and drink 2023
There is a small RV park, and a couple hotels in town.The Booze Pipe wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:34 am If the group decides to do this in June, I would likely be able to make it! Although it sounds like a bit of a drive. What are the accommodations again? Camping, hotel, motel?
RV park has no sewer dump.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: Why CCVM?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1324
Re: Why CCVM?
For me, it was the fastest, least expensive way to neutral. I only use it once or twice a year to run my whiskey feints. I don't drink much vodka or make a lot of stuff that requires high proof spirits, so why spend the money to build something more? If you have a stick of copper and you're making a...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: getting ready for my first spirit run with new still...any advice..
- Replies: 78
- Views: 2096
Re: getting ready for my first spirit run with new still...any advice..
When I get home to my laptop, I can send you a link to a TTB PDF document that will give you the full calibration table by °F and ABV for a P&T hydrometer calibrated for 60°F. I find it very helpful because I admittably suck at math. It's quite a lengthy table. That would be great, thanks! I st...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: getting ready for my first spirit run with new still...any advice..
- Replies: 78
- Views: 2096
Re: getting ready for my first spirit run with new still...any advice..
When I get home to my laptop, I can send you a link to a TTB PDF document that will give you the full calibration table by °F and ABV for a P&T hydrometer calibrated for 60°F. I find it very helpful because I admittably suck at math. It's quite a lengthy table.