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Jezus Magic. Get well…

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Demy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:33 pm I use the heating bands and a sweater outside external but your temperature has nothing wrong, in fact you get a cleaner product.

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The oil is from the corn. I personally have never had corn puke, but then again I put a few drops of defoamer in all my ferments…

Just cool enough. I don’t think that spirit run output being a touch warm hurts anything. After all, we let jars sit for a day or two to let the most volatiles air out…so what harm could a slightly warm output cause?

I bought a set of gaskets that are PTFE sandwiched over voting, as mentioned by Chris. I like them a lot, but they certainly aren’t giving them away…

Still stirrin has given a perfect synopsis. But words only go so far. To translate the description to your palate, running batches of each grain separately will teach you what you need to know.

Leave more space next time. Plenty of yeasties left to propagate as others have said…

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I thought my first all grain rye would be easy to mash…

I use honeycrisp apples panty dropper style…using brown sugar to pull out the juice. Proof down with apple juice or cider, adding sugar as needed. Finish with a vanilla bean and cinnamon stick.

I wouldn’t dilute until bottling.

About twice am much as my wife thinks…

I’ve got heavy stainless foil I use for heat treating stainless blades. Haven’t used under lids but would work I expect…

First stripping run on agave wash…

Different source of sweet feed?

75F kinda cool but should be ok with that yeast. Did you add any enzymes? I think Shady had better FG as some of unfermentables converted. I’d expect lower than 1.027…

Is it staying at 1.027? If dropping slowly leave it be…

Welcome to HD! Noble name, BTW…

If you’re talking about making cuts on a spirit run, you dilute a small sample to taste (73% will fry your taste buds…I use about 35%). For aging I’d shoot for 60-65%, and dilute after aging for drinking at whatever your preference is.

My sweet corn is about ready to pick, so hope I’ll start within a week. I have learned that starches will precipitate in 70% ABV, so I’ll probably start with 75% to (hopefully) mitigate the starch issues…

I strain corn after fermentation. The sticky factor plays heavily into that choice. For grains easy to lauter I’ll ferment off the grain.

Occasionally I’ll add a piece of vanilla bean.

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I generally stop my strip at 10 ish %ABV. Last little bit of alcohol not really worth the gas…

Stripping runs will start producing at a higher temp and (thus necessarily) a lower ABV. This is due to to the lower ABV of the wash…

Jonny is correct. Way back I used only an 8 gallon still. A 44 gal brute was about a perfect size for fermenting.

I’ll use up to 2.5 lb per gallon…max