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If i cant get this going again, what are my options? Run it when you get back home next week. It might surprise you and ferment some more while you're gone. The shine might not taste as good as it should have. But you'll have something to drink as punishment while brewing another batch. :lol: I can...

NZChris wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:50 am While you are on holiday, keep an eye out for blocks of marble and seashells. Any solid form of calcium carbonate is useful.

Would travertine paver qualify for this, i have a few around home i can smash up

NZChris wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:50 am While you are on holiday, keep an eye out for blocks of marble and seashells. Any solid form of calcium carbonate is useful.

Will do

Sporacle wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:54 pm

Ndb wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:05 pm I managaed to get PH up to 5 i then rehydrayed some yeast and pitched. 1 hour later foam cap on top and fizzing away. What a ride

Well done, now back slowly away from the fermentor and let it do its thing.....

Time for my holiday now. Then to run these once i get back home

Grab a bag of this for your next sugar wash. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/dumor-oyster-shell-5-lb?store=2242&cid=Shopping-Google-Local_Feed&utm_medium=Google&utm_source=Shopping&utm_campaign=&utm_content=Local_Feed&gclid=Cj0KCQjwteOaBhDuARIsADBqRegHXJCXr-qsd2JlH...

If i cant get this going again, what are my options? Run it when you get back home next week. It might surprise you and ferment some more while you're gone. The shine might not taste as good as it should have. But you'll have something to drink as punishment while brewing another batch. :lol: Ill r...

If i cant get this going again, what are my options? Kick the can over. You won't be the first. Or.... seeing as you are going away and can't fiddle with it every day, I suggest you hang shells or limestone, (by it's various names), in it and hope for the best. You might get lucky. I'm sure you'll ...

Baking soda is better than nothing. I'd pitch some more yeast also. Ya definitely need to rehydrate the yeast before pitching. The yeast needs 10 to 15 minutes soaking up plain warm water, to get the cell wall functioning before being thrown in a hostile environment. If by chance you have any ec111...

PH stalls can be a bitch to restart sometimes, so are best avoided. Words of wisdom right there. :lol: Lesson definitely learnt. I dont know why i dropped the ph so low to start. I just ran into a similar problem. Temp to high and ph dropped horribly. Add Calcium Hydroxide to raise to around 4-4.5 ...

I have gypsum or chalk amy recommendations for which and how much Chalk might help, it's hard to say how much, add a little at a time and find out. I'd go to a grocery store and buy some pickling lime. If you haven't already added any Epsom salt, get some of that too. I have epsom salt so i will ad...

shadylane wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:57 am

NZChris wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:02 am
PH stalls can be a bitch to restart sometimes, so are best avoided.

Words of wisdom right there.

Lesson definitely learnt.
I dont know why i dropped the ph so low to start.

I have gypsum or chalk amy recommendations for which and how much Chalk might help, it's hard to say how much, add a little at a time and find out. I'd go to a grocery store and buy some pickling lime. If you haven't already added any Epsom salt, get some of that too. I have epsom salt so i will ad...

Ok ph of water started at 7.5 i took it down to 4.5 with citric acid temp has been at 85f. Doing that is a pretty good way of getting yourself a pH stall. What is the pH now? Slaked lime is probably your best option for raising the pH, but I'm not going to give you any guarantee that it will restar...

Ok ph of water started at 7.5 i took it down to 4.5 with citric acid temp has been at 85f. Doing that is a pretty good way of getting yourself a pH stall. What is the pH now? Slaked lime is probably your best option for raising the pH, but I'm not going to give you any guarantee that it will restar...

The wash probably isn't stalled, the yeast is just pissed off about the pH. It's too late for egg shells, oyster shells. Calcium carbonate is good for moderating the pH but not strong enough of an alkali to significantly raise the pH. How big is the wash? What kinda water do you have? Here's a hint...

Ok. I have put down shaday's recipe and the ferment has stalled checked the ph and i assume it has crashed. So i added eggshells should have done this to start im at day 5 started at SG 1070 down to 1030. My question is how long till it kicks back off and next time should i invert the sugar? All st...

Ok. I have put down shaday's recipe and the ferment has stalled checked the ph and i assume it has crashed. So i added eggshells should have done this to start im at day 5 started at SG 1070 down to 1030. My question is how long till it kicks back off and next time should i invert the sugar? All ste...

UPDATE After much advise from the forum pros, my first run is in the bag. I stripped both batches down to zero. Total low wines 15L at 35% ABV. NOTE threw away first 100ml in both runs. Then spirit ran this taking taking 100ml of foreshots before collecting in 200ml cuts. Stopped run after 4 hrs sti...

I think im going to strip both washes and blend together and do a spirit run. I hvae nothing to lose i suppose.
I think i will strip down till 10% abv. Does this sound right.
Spirit run will be slow with starting anv below 40% ABV and running in to tails at 20% ABV

Thanks everyone. My gut instinct after reading for 8 to 10 months was to take cuts and smaller ones at that. For my first time. My washes are only 23l of each so a stripping run seems to be out of question. This is more for learning to refine and ise a still amd learn about cutting. In hind sight i ...

About to do my first ever run i will be borrowing my mates T500. Ive made a TFFV and also TPW birdwatchers. After all the reading and videos and chat ive come to the conclusion that i will have to make cuts. I had a chat to my mate im borrowing the still off and he has said that i will only have to ...

Hey informed ones. NOOB question When mascertaing fruits in a nuetral for liquers am i better off mascerating at a higher ABV say 60% then diluting down to my final ABV what ever that will be say 20%. Macerating at higher %ABV will extract more of the flavors from the fruit. But sometimes those fla...

If you are after a neutral and you've got a pot still, then look elsewhere for another recipe IMO. It makes a great drop and I make a big batch every year with my pot still, but I would never use it as a gin-base etc. Too much grain flavour. One cheat you can do, is use stale wheat. It may take a f...

Hey informed ones. NOOB question

When mascertaing fruits in a nuetral for liquers am i better off mascerating at a higher ABV say 60% then diluting down to my final ABV what ever that will be say 20%.

Has anyone run TFFV through a pot still only? What where the results? How mamy runs were required.
No its not a true vodka but all im after is a nice nuetral.
Plus all i have is a pot still.

Thanks for the concern. Ive watched uncle george and jesse. And a few plumber mates are going to knock up my condenser and pot still.
My mate has been distilling for 8yrs now and is going to ahow me the ropes.
Been reading and watching for 3 to 4 months now gathering as much info as i could.

Ive read, watched and am ready to build

Hey All.
Noob here looking to joining the wonderfull world of distilling