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- Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:54 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Just Post a Pick of your Rig
- Replies: 359
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Re: Just Post a Pick of your Rig
I bought an airstill 2 months ago but quickly realized that it is too small to make anything meaningful and to make cuts that make sense. I found a person who builds and sells these - https://i.ibb.co/y8jtGTj/20210408-030032.jpg He is willing to accept my airstill plus money for one of these. The bo...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:07 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 1027794
Re: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
Ok, I get the basics now. My hydrometer is limited and weird, I wonder if it's because it's meant for all fruit mashes - https://i.ibb.co/3hFNjYr/Webp-net-resizeimage.jpg At first, I thought that in order for my starting gravity to be 1.09 it needs to sink so it is a bit higher than the number 10. N...
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:41 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 1027794
Re: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
Yes, it seems like i failed to learn the difference between sg and og. Back to the reading table!
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:37 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 1027794
Re: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
Adjusted Value:
1.029
That's a lot more since the recipe calls for 1.09
Should I split the mash in two buckets and add half of only water to both?
1.029
That's a lot more since the recipe calls for 1.09
Should I split the mash in two buckets and add half of only water to both?
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 1027794
Re: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
It's showing 1025 now, and it is calibrated to 20c. it was 1015 before I added the yeast, as seen in the pic.
Wash temp (just measured it) is 35C.
Noted on the pictures.
Wash temp (just measured it) is 35C.
Noted on the pictures.
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:52 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
- Replies: 2178
- Views: 1027794
Re: Birdwatchers sugar wash recipe
Hi, I used the birdwatchers calculator to see the ammount needed for 30l of wash. 6.8kg sugar, 300g tomato paste, 1g lemon juice, 84g yeast. I don't have access to epsom sts. Still my sg turns out a bit high. I measured my water to be 30c and mixed sugar, paste and lemon juice slowly https://ibb.co/...
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:42 am
- Forum: New distiller reading Lounge
- Topic: Kiwi mash for my airstill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2205
Re: Kiwi mash for my airstill
Keeping it, by I have another 30l bucker and I just bought ingredients for BW.
I wreport what happens woth the kiwi here, and will move over to BW thread to go through the process with tp wash there.
I appreciate all the help, it is amazing. I am keeping notes on all the advice I am getting.
I wreport what happens woth the kiwi here, and will move over to BW thread to go through the process with tp wash there.
I appreciate all the help, it is amazing. I am keeping notes on all the advice I am getting.
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:49 pm
- Forum: New distiller reading Lounge
- Topic: Kiwi mash for my airstill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2205
Re: Kiwi mash for my airstill
Thanks guys.
I do admit this was an impuls buy caused by kiwis being on sale.
I will regroup, get some tomato paste and try Birdwatchers for my first distillation. The rest of the kiwis can be a desert for now.
Thanks Duck for the advice on the airstill!
I do admit this was an impuls buy caused by kiwis being on sale.
I will regroup, get some tomato paste and try Birdwatchers for my first distillation. The rest of the kiwis can be a desert for now.
Thanks Duck for the advice on the airstill!
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:51 am
- Forum: New distiller reading Lounge
- Topic: Kiwi mash for my airstill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2205
Re: Kiwi mash for my airstill
Thanks for the reply! I don't have the gravity meter.,. yet. I will make sure to buy one asap. I used a rule of thumb I read in here - https://www.storey.com/article/making-fruit-wine-how-much-sugar/#:~:text=But%20instead%20of%20a%20hydrometer,the%20sugar%20is%20completely%20fermented. It says - &qu...
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:04 am
- Forum: New distiller reading Lounge
- Topic: Kiwi mash for my airstill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2205
Kiwi mash for my airstill
Hello again, I am looking for some guidance in my first ever fermentation attempt.. I chose something unusual - kiwi! I bought 2 4l jars and placed this in each: 500g of kiwis I mashed in hot water to squizz out the juices, 1kg sugar, one little bag of rum sugar, one little bag of vanilla sugar, and...
- Fri Apr 02, 2021 3:09 pm
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Novice question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 625
Re: Novice question
Sorry, yes Docstiler is right, I dilluted a spirit to 30 percent and distilled it.
I have faints from that - and I want to add some 47 abv booze to that mixture and try to distill it again.
I have faints from that - and I want to add some 47 abv booze to that mixture and try to distill it again.
- Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:48 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Novice question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 625
Novice question
I just finished distilling a 30 abv wash that's been macerated with herbs - wormwood, fennel and anise. I plopped it in my air still and it made a nice perfumed spirit. I kept collecting until the product started getting a bit weak to tase and smell, but it didn't smell rancid or anything like that ...
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:16 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Greetings from Serbia
- Replies: 5
- Views: 440
Re: Greetings from Serbia
Pozdrav i živeli!
(pišem dok pravim prepečenicu od neke meke rakije što mi je dao otac, dobar je ovo hobi)
(pišem dok pravim prepečenicu od neke meke rakije što mi je dao otac, dobar je ovo hobi)
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:29 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Greetings from Serbia
- Replies: 5
- Views: 440
Re: Greetings from Serbia
That is most certainly the plan, and my old man has a lot of tools and is very much a tinkerer, so I plan on upgrading to an easy DIY solution as soon as I move my residence from this apartment to a house with a yard (it should happen fast, fingers crossed). For now this airstill is a tutorial of so...
- Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:21 pm
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Greetings from Serbia
- Replies: 5
- Views: 440
Greetings from Serbia
Hello moonshiners! I come from Serbia, and I am new to the craft of distilling. Like I see many did before me I purchased an airstill as a birthday gift for myself a couple of days ago. I read it is a challenge, to say the least to make anything I would ferment myself in that little pot, and I likel...