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Hambone wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:04 pm So….the “thick” one is just a grain cap? Do they taste differently? One ferment ahead of the other?

I didn’t taste them, I just made these yesterday and didn’t wanna stick my hands in them yet.

Well I just took a look and the thicker one on the left had a nice big foam cap and bubbling away and the thin one on the right had a few bubbles here and there and almost no foam, I’ve never had this kind of trouble with my ag whiskeys, I also used us-05 yeast when I normally would use fleishmans b...

Hambone wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:12 pm Strain it first, or beware…

Oh 100% I always filter out my grain the best I can before I pour it in.

Okay, thanks guys, do you think running my still slow would help? Maybe once it starts coming out the Liebig dial back the heat a bit? I am running a propane burner on a pot still with a thump

Hopefully it didn’t gelatinize, the water actually wasn’t at a boil it did have some bubbles coming up, I then pitched the 14 lbs of sugar stirred it then added the corn, waited about an hour then topped it off with the cold water and let it sit for about 4 hours before I pitched my yeast. Will it b...

Could it be because the temperature was different when adding the corn? The UJSSM method doesn't use enzymes, so you don't want any gelatinization happening, which is what happens when you put corn into hot water. If you don't have enzymes to add, you might be in trouble. Okay, it wouldn’t be my fi...

This is my first attempt at a ujssm, I’ve done some apple Brandy and some oat and rye whisky. So what I have done here is I boiled 7.5 gallons of water, added 14lbs of sugar and stirred it then added 14lbs of milled corn. Then I added the rest of the water to help cool it at the end. The only differ...

Here, this is what I use: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wet-Dry-Electric-Grinder-Mill-Corn-Grain-3000W-110V-Wheat-Feed-Flour-Cereals-USA-/174605040653?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292 More expensive, but it has a motor too. The hopper holds a couple of pounds but you can keep filling it. ss Well I went to...

Was your thumper plumbed in properly? I had this issue on my first run because I had my thumper backwards.

Well I got 4 packs of the us-05 and 4 packs of ec-118 for when it warms up a little more, unfortunately I forgot them in my truck glove box while it was +30 for 2 days, do you think the yeast will still be okay? I can only blame myself

I personally use a small heaping table spoon of bakers yeast per 5 gallons of mash. You just need to be patient on these forums not everyone is on every hour.

I've run sugar washes on bakers yeast (SAF-Instant from LeSaffre / Fermentis, makers of US-05) inside the house with temps between 18C and 21C. I got clean BW washes fermented down to 0.990 ish without any grief, but they did take about 10 days I think to get that low. Obviously being inside the ho...

I live in Canada and although I missed my opportunity this week to ferment while the weather was sunny in the mid 20’s I would love to get fired up for the summer. The next couple weeks is supposed to be low to mid teens and around 5-9 at night. Normally I use bakers yeast but I feel these temps mig...

I have three stills from Mile-Hi, I have a copper pot still with a keg thump, pretty basic setup but hey it works for me, your first picture looks like something out of a distillery, looks like I would be absolutely lost trying to run that thing lol very nice still though wow that’s nice, I hope to...

I cook everything in my pot and pour into my fermenter and ferment on the grain. After my mash is done I use a double mesh sieve and a cheese cloth bag to strain out all the grain into buckets, then I put in my pot and cook it up, a lot of people here strain into cheese cloth or paint bags and eithe...

You have a good mash bill and it'll make a good drop, but you'll need a lot of it to make a gallon of booze. At 2#/Gallon, you should have gotten 1.060 or better. I get 1.074 with 2.25 pounds of grain per gallon using corn meal. Grind that cracked corn into a fine meal. I gel the corn for about 2 h...

On my phone I crop, screenshot and then crop again and it seems to work good

BD48E2B7-525A-402F-9A70-83B25AAF2ECB.jpeg Well after 3 months of oak and a cinnamon stick I have 1 jar of regular rye and a gallon of cinnamon rye, the cinnamon tastes so good. A very nice rye flavor followed by a nice shuttle cinnamon over the tongue and the jar of regular rye tastes just as delic...

I've also just cut out my thumper, for stripping runs. I always had crystal clear product, but it took an extra hour to get to temp/first drops. Much happier without it (I'll put it back in for spirit runs - that will add some time!!). Why does it take you an extra hour to get your thumper going? A...

My malt house said I can return them no problem for a couple bags of base malts, they have a very nice smelling oats one and some different wheats and barleys, just shows there is something new to learn every second in this hobby, and malt doesn’t necessarily mean malt.

These malts are totally new to me and the malt guy didn’t really tell me anything when I bought these, I have only dabbled in malted rye and barley, so these have no sugars to convert? I checked out the chocolate sundae recipe, this is more for flavoring because it has no sugars? Because if that’s t...

Even though I still have 10kg of malted white wheat, 10kg of Vienna malted barley and 10kg of Munich malted barley, today I visited a new malt house and couldn’t help myself but purchase some more malt, there was a big price break at a 23kg bag for 75$ cad so I bought a bag of Black bear and a bag o...

How does one get an infection like this, what steps could one take to try and avoid something like this? The pictures I seen on google looked like mold and was disgusting

I use handles for my car boys but I lift them with my arms and then use the handle to guide where I want the chugging to happen lol

I always filter my mash before I run it, you can use a paint bag or a cheese cloth, some people here use a mop bucket to squeeze the bag, you can hang it over night, I use a combination of a bag and a double mesh strainer,

I have a copper pot still and my sac run after my vinegar run always comes out blue for a jar, would I drink anything after a blue jar, hell no, to each their own but I wouldn’t drink anything from a sac run

F76CCC40-0264-4A63-9869-567B6345D383.jpegI bought this mill off of Amazon I paid around 100$ I think. I buy 50lb bags of cracked corn from our local feed store and this mill turns it into a nice powder, I have milled corn, barley, rye and wheat in it so far, it takes like an hour to do 20lbs, it’s ...

F76CCC40-0264-4A63-9869-567B6345D383.jpeg I bought this mill off of Amazon I paid around 100$ I think. I buy 50lb bags of cracked corn from our local feed store and this mill turns it into a nice powder, I have milled corn, barley, rye and wheat in it so far, it takes like an hour to do 20lbs, it’s...

Fair enough, I only ask because I always strip 20 gallons of my
Ag mash and then do a spirit run, I was just curious about this sugar “wash” I’m not too familiar with it.

Would it be beneficial to do a stripping and a spirit run for a ujssm? My wife likes a more neutral spirit but I have a pot still so I’d like to still do a little corn, mainly why I chose this recipe, I will also be using bread yeast. Is the back set okay to freeze? My wife doesn’t drink like I do s...