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I like to double distill and do a heart of the hearts cut for a very clean flavored white as well as a wider barrel/oak cut plus a feints cut for the feints carboy and a fores/early heads for the solvent firestarter jug. Sometimes i’ll keep certain feints separate and macerate or oak to add back int...

Make it and they will come!

when life gives you grapes - make grappa!

Sounds yummy! I’d go a little lighter on the peat and chocolate just to blend it with the honey more subtly but sounds like a good drop in any case.

No need to boil since it’s not beer but shouldn’t hurt as long as you keep the SG not too high.

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-j

Glad you’re safe! Isn’t there a cocktail called a volcano? Shouldn’t there be one?

Welcome to HD c93010! What still did you get? Any foto’s? Your beer brewing experience will be a great resource for ferments. Looking forward to your take.

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-jonny

It’s even quicker and easier when your assistant squeezes.

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How’d this turn out?

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Lol. I’ll experiment with some sulphuric acid in the low wines with infected backset but forget about nuking a jar full of barrel strength! Gotta draw the line somewhere....

The 10 N solution is about 40% so be safe!

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Jonny

I still in my cellar which I also use for winemaking, laundry, and an electronics shop plus some storage and a hydro lettuce garden. I still on a little 6ft table. There's about 15 carboys and a couple barrels for wines and clearing of ferments - four brute trash cans on wheels for primary fermenter...

I clear in glass carboys under vacuum for at least a week in order to minimize sediment in the boiler. Often longer.

You may or may not scorch if you don’t clear depending on how you heat your boiler.

I just take my time and it’s all good. No scorch.

Good luck!

-j

I wouldn’t use battery acid or drain cleaner. Lab grade recommended:
Hach 93153 Sulfuric Acid Standard Solution, 10 N, 1 L

If you use a gallon jug to to fill and mark the boiler where on the jug is the accurate 1g mark? Top of the lip? Shoulder?

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Jonny

I’d guess that diameter is 19” and height is 43.5”. Does that change the math tho?

I enjoy pretty much all of them and particularly the heavily peated ones.

Compost bin or spread it in the yard for the birds & squirrels... Some folks bag it and chuck it in the trash too.

I've found that in the warmer months a black soldier fly bin makes pretty quick work of spent grains then dump it in the compost.

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-jonny

I ferment on-grain but the Scottish whisky producers do typically sparge and ferment off-grain. There must be a reason?

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Jonny

Happy birthday Rod and Welcome to HD from Nashville!

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Jonny

When I take fores in my potstill I run it very low and slow as the riser heats up prior to any distillate out of the PC. I feel like I get some passive reflux during that initial period while the riser is not yet up to temp that helps concentrate the first 100’ish ml. The slow long cook also seems t...

Is the barley malted? If so you don't need enzymes unless you denature the enzymes in the malt with too high temp.

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jonny

Interesting point - two equal resisters in series to gnd (or neutral) make up whet they call a voltage divider. Where at the junction the voltage is 1/2. The same amount of amps go through both resistors and power = Vdrop * Amps so the drop across each resistor (element) is approx 120V which would m...

I work with vacuum tubes a bit and need to solve resistance of the heater element in a vacuum tube under operating conditions because the resistance is different when heated and when cold. I've got an ammeter on my still controller and also note that the amps wander a bit then settle as I change the...

You could try it in the new oak and see how you like it. Single malt scotches are aged in once used bourbon barrels (and maybe finished in a sherry or port cask or something else) in order to prevent over oaking. There are no rules @ home but maybe some guidelines to follow if you're after a certain...

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Jonny

Honey is actually one of my favorite white but also very good on wood. Did you already ferment and distill the 90 gallons of honey? Expensive stuff so...

Hi. Normally you strip 3-4 boilers full of mash-bier which should then yield a full’ish boiler charge of low wines for the spirit run.

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Here's an interesting thread with some info about fruit infusions:
https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtop ... 11&t=60563

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-jonny

I have yet to do a heavy peat but i really want to. Do you figure running two bourbons through a fiver for shorter time before a single malt so they’re not too oaked?

Welcome to HD Oblivion! What brings you here?

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Jonny