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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: My first..... I dunno what this is, any help?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 199
Re: My first..... I dunno what this is, any help?
Not sure but it could be the start of a lacto infection. Without the grain cap it would make a pellicle but perhaps with the grain cap it is foaming from the CO2 coming up. Is there more of a sour odor in the one with the foam?
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Legalization of Home Distilling
- Topic: A bit of good news for home distilling
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8517
Re: A bit of good news for home distilling
I wonder if that 5 gallons is alcohol gallons, i.e. you can have 10 gallons if your product is 100 proof. Or 20 gallons if it is only 50 proof. Hopefully it does not include the 1.5 gallons of so if heads I collect and put in my fire starter can.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: Legalization of Home Distilling
- Topic: A bit of good news for home distilling
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8517
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: My First .....
- Topic: Did my first spirit run!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 277
Re: Did my first spirit run!
If this was the first spirit run how did you get feints and distilled alcohol? Where you doing cuts on the stripping runs? Why did you redistill things? Anyhow, sounds like you are enjoying it and having fun.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: The liar's bench
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 487530
Re: The liar's bench
I am finding as I get older I want to travel less. I used to love to travel, have been to Europe, Mexico, South America, Africa and India. And for almost 20 years I caught a plane most Monday mornings to go to a client site for the week. 1.5 million miles on United and another 300K on American. But ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: uncle jesse's simple sour mash method
- Replies: 4778
- Views: 1052885
Re: uncle jesse's simple sour mash method
This website is my distilling bible. Huge help during my journey to produce a heavy peated Scotch and and AG bourbon using corn, barley and rye. I have learned that simplicity is king and scale of operation is my biggest limitation to putting up significant quantities of spirit. Having said all tha...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: The liar's bench
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 487530
Re: The liar's bench
Sorry to hear of your loss Crow. As Yonder said, you get to an age and many of us are getting there. I am only at the start of the curve but know what the future holds. Wish the distance were closer. From your posts I would love to sit with you by a still and listen to your stories. Time to enlist t...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:22 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: What'd ya'll make today?
- Replies: 6949
- Views: 739710
Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Will do a spirit run on 10 gal of HBB low wines tonight. Then I will pack up the gear for the season. Assuming normal yield this last run will make right at 12 gal aging stock for the season, split between bourbon, rum and apple brandy.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Sourdough Experiment
- Replies: 10
- Views: 747
Re: Sourdough Experiment
The yeast in sourdough is only fermenting the sugars in the grain and sugar added. I add a bit of honey to my sourdough bread. It is not breaking down and fermenting the long chain starches. But it doesn't need to, it only needs a little sugar to make enough C02 to raise the bread.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Aged rum to white rum
- Replies: 11
- Views: 862
Re: Aged rum to white rum
What type of molasses are you using? There is a new rum distillery in my town and I talked to the owner last weekend. He started out as a home distiller. He suggested if I wanted a white rum that can be drank soon after distillation (he did not define soon) to use the fancy molasses rather than blac...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Grains
- Topic: Types of Corn?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4493
Re: Types of Corn?
Most of the corn in the US, and most of what is used for alcohol, but drinking and fuel, is yellow dent corn. This is also known as field corn. There are also white varieties of dent corn. Sweet corn is grown for fresh eating and has been bred to be less starch and higher sugar. As such if it is all...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: question about fermentation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 300
Re: question about fermentation
Yes, you want anaerobic fermentation because that is when yeast makes alcohol. But first the yeast has to multiply. And to multiply the yeast needs O2. So you need to get all the O2 into solution you can when you pitch the yeast. The yeast will enter the propagation phase where they will divide to c...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Looking to build a CCVM
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1035
Re: Looking to build a CCVM
My numbers vary a bit from Yummy, but I tend to go very deep on stripping runs, below 5% at the spout. I just did a stripping run last night and on a 10.5 gal charge I took off 3.2 gal in low wines. That would be 70% left of just over 2/3 of the original charge.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Marble magic and a theory yet to be proven
- Replies: 64
- Views: 2314
Re: Marble magic and a theory yet to be proven
That makes perfect sense. To illustrate assume your column is packed with copper rods, running up the length of the column. Heat at the bottom will soon transfer to the top. Don't believe me, take a foot of copper pipe and apply your torch (fire, not light for you Aussies) to one end and see how lon...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Spirit run yield?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 304
Re: Spirit run yield?
A lot will depend on your cuts. And that depends on your ferment. I usually end up with about the same amount of 62% abv product to go into the barrel as the theoretical amount of alcohol in the batch. So if I have 10 gallons of low wines at 30%, so three gallons of pure alcohol, I can expect about ...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Favorite Apple Varieties for an All Fruit Brandy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1008
Re: Favorite Apple Varieties for an All Fruit Brandy
Here is a good link for looking up apple disease resistance https://blogs.cornell.edu/applevarietyd ... on-apples/
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: Fruits & Vegetables
- Topic: Favorite Apple Varieties for an All Fruit Brandy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1008
Re: Favorite Apple Varieties for an All Fruit Brandy
Check your local diseases and make sure to get resistant ones. In our area Fire Blight is very bad so it makes no sense to plant something that is not at least moderately resistant. That makes planting cider specific apples almost impossible since those tend to all be older European versions which a...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 5
- Views: 131
Re: Hello
Welcome. Lot of information here. Since you have a reflux still I assume you want to make neutrals. Plenty of good info here on making clean sugar washes for neutral.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 5
- Views: 131
Re: Hello
Welcome. Lot of information here. Since you have a reflux still I assume you want to make neutrals. Plenty of good info here on making clean sugar washes for neutral.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Feedback Request
- Replies: 10
- Views: 459
Re: Feedback Request
Tedd, do you have any links to paper on using fats during distillation. It is not a common practice but that certainly doesnt make it incorrect. I would like to read more.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Feedback Request
- Replies: 10
- Views: 459
Re: Feedback Request
A gravity refractometer will not read correctly with alcohol present so your reading after fermentation began are FUBAR. Always use a hydrometer once fermentation starts. But there are reading correction calculators as long as you know the starting gravity. I just find it easier to use the hydromete...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: Fermenters
- Replies: 7
- Views: 435
Re: Fermenters
I like the idea of a strip of silicon hose, or perhaps just a small diameter hose, like a fish tank air hose, to use as a gasket. I know it is not needed but even after 20 years of fermenting, beer, wine, cider, mead and now spirits I just like to hear that airlock chugging. It puts a smile on my fa...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Anybody get any good deals lately?
- Replies: 2882
- Views: 274703
Re: Anybody get any good deals lately?
I like those mesh or wire covers for moving the carboys around. Would be a lot safer.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:01 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..
Just a point of semantics. A parrot is a device that you can put under the spout in which the product can collect and then has another spout so it can overflow into a final collection vessel. This allows you to float a hydrometer continually in the output stream to give an ABV reading. It also smear...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:50 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..
I searched the site in the previous link and see a 12 inch glass test jar. I don't see a volume listed but the picture looks like it is very close to a 100 ml cylinder.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:42 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..
What size cylinder did you order. I have 100ml and 250 ml sized ones. 100 ml is .42 cups. But a 250 is almost a cup.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 2
- Views: 86
Re: Hello
Welcome. Be advised it can become somewhat addictive and I am not talking about the end product. You may well find yourself spending hours on this site and various hardware sites. Let us know what you are interested in making and what you things of for equipment and there are many here that will be ...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Adjusting pH of a Rum wash (All Molasses)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 795
Re: Adjusting pH of a Rum wash (All Molasses)
Nice work, love the science. That said I have always thought of calcium carbonate as a buffer to prevent a crash rather than an agent to really move the PH. Since a PH of 5.0 is still rather neutral I would not expect much reaction. But as the ph falls toward 4.0 I would expect the reaction to pick ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Other Hobbies and Projects
- Topic: Cooking in Cast Iron Camp Ovens / Dutch Ovens
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11238
Re: Cooking in Cast Iron Camp Ovens / Dutch Ovens
Beautiful loafs Sadie. You are an artist
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:55 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..
Your notes are perfect but I do wonder about your refractometer. looking at jars 13, 14, and 15 your not going super slow for 300 ml yet you are still above 80% that late into the run. I have never stayed above 80% that deep into the run. Do you have a tralles hydrometer you can check those jars wit...