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by kiwi Bruce
Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:21 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Odin's Easy Gin
Replies: 1332
Views: 342005

Re: Odin's Easy Gin

If your making gin for Dry Martinis, I found that Odin's is OK but if you drastically reduce the citrous (like by the power of X10) it's quite good in a dry martini...so cut back on the amount and the maceration time of the orange and lime peel for martinis but use as is for G & T's
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:41 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Why do you distill ? Cost or Quality ?
Replies: 60
Views: 5506

Re: Why do you distill ? Cost or Quality ?

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Thank You Windy City...We home schooled all three of ours, about the same time as I did start stilling... and now I think you nailed it !
This must be why I Still ! ! ! :clap:
by kiwi Bruce
Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:40 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

It's coming back
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:35 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Notable and quotable
Replies: 741
Views: 92340

Re: Notable and quotable

More notable than quotable...
With this post I go to 2200 total posts...who would have ever thunked it ! ! 1
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:32 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

posted to HDforum
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:31 pm
Forum: Stills and still building information
Topic: New still smells funny
Replies: 8
Views: 1592

Re: New still smells funny

It's the hops, which are an oil compound. Do a soupy water wash or run your new copper again using just water or rinse everything with acetone.
Whatever is the easiest or cheapest or least time consuming...it'll wash out fine !
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:09 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: %&*($#%$ SNOW!!!!
Replies: 891
Views: 74344

Re: %&*($#%$ SNOW!!!!

Windswept wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2020 7:24 am It was -1C here this morning when I left for work with a real, hard frost.
Now that's La Phucka upa ed
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:32 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: %&*($#%$ SNOW!!!!
Replies: 891
Views: 74344

Re: %&*($#%$ SNOW!!!!

El Niño ! They made the announcement yesterday...if this is the case we'll get sti# loads more snow and storms than the Almanac is saying we should get.
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:57 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

and fat bums
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:55 pm
Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
Topic: Chlorine & Chloramine Treatment
Replies: 7
Views: 1854

Re: Chlorine & Chloramine Treatment

You can ask from your local municipality what the chemical is that they chlorinate with, but most in the US (most of the world) have moved away from the liquid hypochlorite and are using the solid Chlorine Dioxide (Sodium Chlorite) The reason is, with hypochlorite the chlorine stays in the water sup...
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:20 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

handy hand scooper
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:07 pm
Forum: Flavoring and Aging
Topic: Using wood chips for aging.
Replies: 44
Views: 21546

Re: Using wood chips for aging.

It's not the barrel stave chips that have the problem with Pesticides, it's the fruit tree woods chips...apple, peach, cherry and the like. These trees are sprayed the keep the bugs from damaging the fruit and unfortunately the trees are sprayed year after year and the Pesticides are absorbed into t...
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:47 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

scoop da poop ?
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:47 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Why do you distill ? Cost or Quality ?
Replies: 60
Views: 5506

Re: Why do you distill ? Cost or Quality ?

I saw a bottle of this over the weekend...
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$500.00 !

Let me rethink why I Distill !
by kiwi Bruce
Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:35 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

or poopers poo
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:57 pm
Forum: ** Welcome Center **
Topic: Long time gone
Replies: 1
Views: 335

Re: Long time gone

30 days has September, April, June and November
all the rest have 31...except
Kiwi Bruce who got 7 to 10
with 3 years off for good behavior !

Were you "away" too ?
Welcome back BobsUrUncle-2 !
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:44 pm
Forum: Flavoring and Aging
Topic: Why store in a dark cool location?
Replies: 14
Views: 2380

Re: Why store in a dark cool location?

+1 Twisted Brick...chemically/physically what I believe happens is the "O-H" bond on the flavor alkaloids (which are light organic oils) can be attacked by strong light and or heat. When these are dissolved/attached to an alcohol this happens at a much slower rate, so it's during the macer...
by kiwi Bruce
Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:33 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

the great wag
by kiwi Bruce
Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:45 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

back to Muffie
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:26 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Jokes
Replies: 4219
Views: 586897

Re: Jokes

So...PA closed all the liquor Stores due to the Covid virus ....3 weeks later the price for a pint of unflavored regular shine was selling for $200...or so I'm told, just amazing! On another note:- the wife and I are going to the Caribbean islands for the whole winter, hoping the whole virus thing w...
by kiwi Bruce
Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:01 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

none the wiser
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:22 pm
Forum: Mashing, fermenting, flavoring and aging related hardware
Topic: Used Barrels?
Replies: 11
Views: 1551

Re: Used Barrels?

If you can find used Bourbon barrels they are supposed to have been used only once. By law they MUST be used only once...(actually the law states that in order to be called whiskey or bourbon the "white dog" must be put into new white oak casks)...that's not to say that the whiskey hasn't...
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:29 am
Forum: Novice Distillers
Topic: Diluting low wines with backset?
Replies: 12
Views: 1291

Re: Diluting low wines with backset?

I was trying to figure how Goshen was using the "sour beer", that the Tax agents found when they raided his croft. It had to be either 5% of the fermented wash that was ready to run or it was pot-ale that had been allowed to go "lactic" before being added to the wash or mash, or ...
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:12 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

beans and curry
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:12 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Why do you distill ? Cost or Quality ?
Replies: 60
Views: 5506

Re: Why do you distill ? Cost or Quality ?

bronctoad wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:44 pm
Yummyrum wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:32 pm Yup . Everytime I have to buy something for distilling , I remind my self how much I’m saving by not having hobbies like boating , hunting or motorbikes :D
+1 yummy
you forgot racecars :)
or golf...but is golf a hobby or a sport ?
by kiwi Bruce
Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:51 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

curds and whey
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:52 pm
Forum: Gin
Topic: Citrus concentration preferences?
Replies: 7
Views: 986

Re: Citrus concentration preferences?

The answer (my two C's) to lowering the citric on something like an Odin's easy is to reduce the maceration time to just a couple of hours and defiantly not two weeks.
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:46 am
Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
Topic: Dilution effect in the boiler
Replies: 14
Views: 1232

Re: Dilution effect in the boiler

To my understanding, the low wines are diluted to stop the liquid in the spirit run from, possibly, becoming "super-heated" and then flash boiling in the still. This is a very unsafe situation and boiling liquid could escape from the still. Glass chips are added for the same season.
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:34 am
Forum: Novice Distillers
Topic: Diluting low wines with backset?
Replies: 12
Views: 1291

Re: Diluting low wines with backset?

They all gave you sound advice you seem to be well on your way + 1 Durhommer...don't sweat it, the back-set (bourbon) and pot-ale (scotch) are used the acidify the mash for the next batch (not for extra flavor) rancid dunder however, is used to create esters in Naval Rums and IS added to the lows f...
by kiwi Bruce
Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:21 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Three Word Story
Replies: 8002
Views: 460990

Re: Three Word Story

Politics! Shit NO !