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I visited Willett and Limestone Branch on a motorcycle ride this past summer. Willett is a really cool place with an interesting back story. They have big plans to turn it into a tourist destination with a B&B on site. Limestone Branch is really small, as you can tell from the picture of the bui...

PJ, Welcome! I find your name offensive and polarizing. For whatever that's worth. I'm pretty much a nobody. Satan Smiles Upon You. :twisted: Roll Tide! Hey TDS, I think you let your "knee jerk" reaction lead you astray. I suspect the OP's handle might be a shortened version of "pjfo...

Look at the menu bar near the top of this page. See the link that says "HD Google Search?" Click on it and add the search term "applejack" to the search query. Simple as that.

Nice. I love FREE.

Jbidlack wrote: For the spirit run should I run it in reflux to get it nice and pure?

No. If you do that you will remove all that good sour mash corny flavor you have worked so hard to get.

Dump the backset (or save it for use in a sour mash type wash), dilute the spirit from your first run (called low wines) to 40% ABV or less with water and rerun.

You might have some luck searching the Google machine for persimmon wine. Once you make the wine then all you have to do is distill it.

I think Odin tried a nut based mash/wash a year or two ago. I don't recall the outcome.

Hell, 70 ain't old.

For easy and corn flavor you can't beat Uncle Jessie's Simple Sour Mash (UJSSM). It's in the "Tried and True" section of the Forum.

After I rinse my column/packing I stick the shop vac hose in one end and suck air through it for a while to dry it out.

Magic1554 wrote:Anybody do this with non-neutral spirits? I have a pot still, was thinking about doing this with a whiskey type shine. Thoughts??

No reason not to give it a try. There are at least a couple of commercial distilleries selling sweet tea bourbon.

Get well Odin. I'm right behind you - going in Friday to get a cyst removed from my left armpit. Not a big deal surgery but a sensitive area. I see drugs in my immediate future.


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It is hard, Husker, but you'll make it through. Best, my friend.

That is one hell of an I-beam.

Don't have any fireworks, but I have a nice Colt .38 "six gun." And I have a bunch of bunnies trying to eat the entire garden. So I plan to spend time on the deck, tending the smoker and annoying the bunnies with the six gun. They deserve it.

It can be overwhelming. Take your time and don't jump too soon, and be especially careful of most of the stuff you see on you tube. A lot of it is just crap info and some is downright dangerous. Eastern/southern Utah is one of my favorite motorcycle riding places. I just don't much like all the liqu...

And happy Canada Day.

Most folks seem to prefer aging at around 60-65% and diluting to drinking proof later.

Up until now I have always used a neutral spirit as a base for kalhua but I have since learned that "authentic" kalhua uses rum as the base spirit. So my next batch (I make this up for Christmas gifts) will be rum based.

okie wrote:On a spirit run finding the point where the heart stops and tails begin is my biggest problem. I'm smearing into tails but then I also like the flavor. So what is the rule?

The rule is " there is no rule." It is, as you say, an art. If you like it, keep it.

Funny Bushman. Welcome Mykela. Bush is right, though, things can go wrong in a hurry. We'll not go into detail about how I know that.

Welcome. Let us know how your malted barley goes.

vmarkus wrote:... am having a lot of trouble soldering the output line to the round surface.

You shouldn't be trying to solder the output pipe to the round surface. Drill a hole in the column so the pipe is a tight fit in the hole then prep and solder as above.

Welcome yer ownself.

What is a French Martini?

Welcome. I don't know anything about importing a barrel into Aus. but I'd observe that with the size of your still it's going to take a very long time to fill a barrel. In the meantime you might be interested in nuclear aging http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=38991 Assuming, of ...

Ditto everything above.

Doing a spirit run of All Bran today. I think I'll rerun this one with my gin head on the pot still unless the Wife lays claim to the vodka first. In the background are two fermenters with more All Bran working and two more with a UJSSM working. Thanks to everyone.

Good job. I am making a rye variation on the USSSM recipe using 50/50 cracked corn and malted rye. I nuke "aged" it and then moved it to a well used 10 liter oak barrel at 64%. I have to do one more spirit run in order to get enough to fill the barrel. I kept one bottle after the nuke agin...

Very pretty.