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thank you for chiming in. i have read a lot of your post on rye. I have read that a longer glucan rest would help unmalted rye. Is that true? I also have read that stirring it often would help break down the glucans but I don't know if that makes sense to me. Thank you for your contributions to this...

Do I need to do a glucan rest when using unmalted rye? I have searched this topic on the forum but seem to get some saying yes and others saying no. I do a glucan rest when using malted rye and i believe it helps. I just purchased some unmalted rye and want see how the flavor profile differs using t...

Acfixer69. The main question in my last post is if there was mold in the barrel would it ruin the spirit? If i knew if there was mold in it, i would not have asked. How would i know if it had mold? I wrote Ben to ask him his thoughts on the subject and that is when I learned about his accident. His ...

I bought a badmotivator back at the end of April. I filled it with water when i got it. It took me longer to fill it than I thought it would. I just filled it last night. i read about possible mold growing in a barrel. I looked at the water i poured out last night. There were a few things floating a...

….. I have not been collecting as far down as 10% i have been stopping around 30%. Not exactly sure why but i have read people cutting off at this point. I’ve seen a lot of folks confused by that number, specifically what that number actually represents. Lots of posts where people are not being spe...

if i ever get enough product to do a spirit run. I am kind of wondering here what your yields are like. If you've done 5 or 6 stripping runs and still don't have enough for a spirit run I am wondering a bit about your conversion or whether you're collecting enough of the alcohol off your stripping ...

You will know if it pukes. You can hear it starting to gurgle as the foam is coming up the column. Corrected by killing it reducing heat may get you some wash color in the first jar that should clear on the rest of the jars. If left uncorrected, or let go too long, get the mop bucket. What was your...

I did a clean out run with water in vinegar about 5 months ago before i used it again. I am running a 15.5 gallon keg with a 2 x 24 in riser connected to a 3 foot liebig condenser. Everything is copper. The fermentation was very milky almost yellow looking as pretty much all my all grains have been....

My AG stripping runs tend to end up a little cloudy. Partly because I strip down to around 25%, partly because I sometimes run a ltitle too hot, too early and get some puking. It all clears up nicely during the spirit run ("strip spirit protocol" just means to strip washes, generally fast...

Are you pot or reflux? Assuming Pot. Do you have new copper in the still anywhere? Are you following the strip spirit protocol? And if so is this your first run (strip) or your spirit run? [/quote] Yes, Pot still. No, I am using a column over keg and the column is about 12 years old. I am not sure w...

So I have run probably 5 or 6 all grain mash now. I have done HBB a few times and last night I did a Dumor 6 grain scratch with malter barley. Every time i have run an all grain my spirit comes out a bit cloudy. I want to say purplish / blue tint but nothing like i have seen people post very blue. A...

If you make the original recipe with 40 gallons of water after three striping runs and a spirit run, how much liquor do you end up with?

So tractor supply is about the only place near me to buy corn. Would you buy whole corn and grind it or cracked corn and just grind it finer? I wasn't sure if there was any benefit one way or the other. Plan on making HBB.

thanks for any assistance

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Did anyone ever try this? Our property in Arkansas has tons of pawpaw trees. I'll have to wait till the fall when the fruit gets ripe. I have never made a brandy but i was thinking this would be very similar to making banana. The fruit is very similar to mango. The skin and seeds contain toxins so i...

I am using for the first time Daddy yeast and except for the corn which i milled more than cracked but less than powder the other grains were just cracked. but from straining it. the cloudy was mostly corn mush. But I did not have any issues with scorching and i had my heat on as high as it would go...

Jonny - that was the one that i siphoned off the grain. I got another 6 gallons from squeezing the grain. and at least 1 gallon of it was cloudy as hell like that. I made 12 gallons hoping to get 10. I got 10 but hell at least 2 of them were cloudy as hell.

what type of temperature does it take to cold crash? my lash mash had at least 2 inches of the trub on the bottom after 2 weeks of sitting. I hand strained 20 lbs of grains and ended up with 5 gallons of mash and the bottom 6 inches was just like the above photo.

My last stripping run I ran all the mash from my last HBB. The bottom was very cloudy but not much sediment. Poto attached showing how cloudy the bottom of the carboy was. I strained it as I put in my boiler. The run came out a bit cloudy. I was thinking this was from running hot and fast. The produ...

It has only been 2 days. I just googled cold crashing and i don't believe i have the space to do this.

i would hate to scorch the product as i have a decent amount of time and money into it.

geotextile fabric?

currently running a 2 foot 2 inch column that clamps on the top. At this point i do not plan on upgrading. was hoping to have to cut as few holes in the keg as possible. I just watched a video on Barley and Hops and the guy cut a hole in a keg with a hole saw bit. So you would have a 2 inch hole cut...

This first one i used a bag and i am fermenting off the grain. I think my second batch I will do on the grain just to see the difference. Wow I didn't realize i would need to wait that long for it to clear. I am used to it stopping bubbling and then running. I am ok in the patience department, but I...

Yes the keg is stainless steel.

What do you need to solder into the hole?

Yes I am sorry for all the newby questions. i was just trying to figure out if it is possible or feasible before i do all the research needed.

some people use more than one heater it seems?

I will preface this by saying i know nothing about how to convert my 15 gallon keg still into an electric still. It has been something that i have never put a lot of thought into. But as I feel like i will be getting deeper and deeper into this hobby now that my kids are older and i have more time I...

i know i have been asking a lot of questions. I feel like my wife. I promise i have been reading a lot but putting all the pieces together is difficult. Checked on my all grain mash last night. It has cleared up nicely but the bottom 4 inches of the carboy are very cloudy. will this clear up? Will i...

And “brewing in a bag” will certainly affect the efficiency of conversion/extraction of the sugars. And corn is especially sensitive to this because you need good exposure of the corn to the active enzymes (carried in the liquid/wort). [/quote SS. I don't understand how brewing in a bag effects the...

I ground the corn pretty fine. the other grains i just used how they came in the mail. they were crushed.

How well did you mill your grains before mashing? Grind texture will affect extract efficiency too.
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So yesterday I doubled the grain bill of HBB but decided to do it in my kettle in a bag to get the most conversion. So I started with 14 lbs of corn etc. A iodine test showed with a full conversion, but my SG was just a big over 1.04 I was hoping for higher since I kept the corn at 190 for 1.5 hours...

15 gallon spirit run charge in my still equals approximately 20 mason jars then strip the rest. Hearts yield is about 2-2.5g @ 120’ish proof depending on the charge. I typically choose some heads and tails for my feints which comes to approximately three gallons. Throw some oak in that carboy and s...

I'm running a 15 gallon keg still with a 2 foot riser and a libeig condenser. I charged with 12 gallons of stripped ujsm and a few other feints I had lying around. You haven’t said what kind of still you are running . That will have a huge impact on roughly where the tails will be . Edit: posted wit...

After I tossed the foreshore my first half Pont was 166 I was on 1/2 pint 14 when I stopped at 140 proof. Any idea on when the tails start? I was going to do the smell test but so far they are completely clear and still smell good. I'm wondering what proof I would turn up the heat to finish up. Than...