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Combine Low Wines from Different Recipes?

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Has anyone combined low wines from different wash recipes to do a spirit run? I have been searching the forum and have not seen any posts about it. I am thinking about trying it.

How did your final product come out?

I am thinking that with my packed bokakob, the final product should be pretty nuetral if my reflux rate is petty high.
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I haven't.

I've run blended feints from many batches of different product, and had good results, but to be fair the end product was light.

Canadian whiskies typically blend finished products from the source grains, distilled singularly then combined for the final product, with good results.

It makes sense that if you (for example) blend low wines from a corn mash along with some ratio of other grains, you end up with something bourbon-esque. But combining at different stages of the process, mash, low wines, feints, or blended final products, you will in each case get something different.

I recommend you experiment and then report back. Also, I suspect if you use the HD Google Search you'll find others who have asked a similar question, and some results.
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CaptMorgan wrote:Has anyone combined low wines from different wash recipes to do a spirit run?...
Can you say, “rumskey”?
CaptMorgan wrote:How did your final product come out?
Clear, like usual.
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I've done low wines from different recipes just because I needed the volume to fill the still. Ran sugar washes with all grain washes etc. You get what you'd expect, a combination of the two. When I was starting out I made a bunch of "purple passion" which is wine made from grape juice. I ran some as a cleaning run and then ran a couple batches as low wines. The feigns I had were put in a carboy. Time goes by and I made various other things (ujssm and all grain batches) and one day mixed all of the low wines in, not realising until after that one of the carboys was PP. Well...it was really good! It was like maturing whisky in a sherry barrel I guess is the best way to describe it. Never did it again though and don't really have the inclination to do it either, but not because it was bad though.
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run it through reflux and make gin with it
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still_stirrin wrote:
CaptMorgan wrote:Has anyone combined low wines from different wash recipes to do a spirit run?...
Can you say, “rumskey”?
I prefer "Bourbrum" ;-)
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Yesterday I ran a mixture of low wines, heads and tails of different grains, but I did not dilute it yet.
A lot of people collect feints and run them into a neutral.
But I think that is not what you mean.

In the series Moonshiners (yes, I know the doubts!!) I saw a still made of two boilers: one with appleferment and one with ryeferment. The vapours of both boilers went into one common thumper and from that into one condenser. This resulted in one low wine or one single run shine.
It would be a nice experiment to mix the separate low wines and run them together in a spirit run. And then, of course, compare the results.
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OtisT wrote:
still_stirrin wrote:
CaptMorgan wrote:Has anyone combined low wines from different wash recipes to do a spirit run?...
Can you say, “rumskey”?
I prefer "Bourbrum" ;-)
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CaptMorgan wrote:Has anyone combined low wines from different wash recipes to do a spirit run? I have been searching the forum and have not seen any posts about it. I am thinking about trying it.

How did your final product come out?

I am thinking that with my packed bokakob, the final product should be pretty nuetral if my reflux rate is petty high.

I'm not really seeing an answer here. I am in the same scenario. If i throw in my UJSSM heads/tails/feints with my Sherry Heads/Tails/Feints with my rum Heads/Tails/Feints, what am i going to end up with. Maybe if i double distill all of the combo i can get a neutral?
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Sourwood wrote:...I'm not really seeing an answer here.

If i throw in my UJSSM heads/tails/feints with my Sherry Heads/Tails/Feints with my rum Heads/Tails/Feints, what am i going to end up withl?
Firestarter.

Garbage in ---> garbage out.

But, try it....and YOU tell us what you get.
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Sourwood, you aren't seeing an answer because there isn't one. Do what you want, it's your hobby. If you think you'd like something, make it. If you don't, would it matter if we told you to do it?
IMHO your mix would not interest me to put through a potstill. It might make some sense for a neutral recovery run, or to boost the proof with some fresh neutral. But IME, flavored feints give smaller yields of neutral than a good neutral wash would, and aren't the best use of my time. To me the best use of flavored feints is to find a way to use them in the same flavored drink, either as a boost or as an all feints run, but again expect a smaller heart from all feints runs.
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still_stirrin wrote: Firestarter.

This got me laughing. Good point, SS. I appreciate it. I'll just be patient and wait until i have enough for a spirit run of each type.
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I’m going to revive an old thread here; not sure if it’s considered more annoying to do so or to start a new one around here.

I have done a stripping run on a simple corn whiskey recipe (85% flaked maize, 15% 6-row). I’m wanting to step up to Jimbo’s bourbon recipe next. Would it make sense to take the feints from the corn whiskey spirit run and add them to the first Jimbo run, since they’re fairly close in ingredients? Or just keep the recipe pure and as is? Thanks.
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school wrote:I have done a stripping run on a simple corn whiskey recipe (85% flaked maize, 15% 6-row). I’m wanting to step up to Jimbo’s bourbon recipe next. Would it make sense to take the feints from the corn whiskey spirit run and add them to the first Jimbo run, since they’re fairly close in ingredients? Or just keep the recipe pure and as is? Thanks.
So, you haven’t made Jimbo’s recipe before? I think I’d keep it “by the book” the first time through so you can learn what his T&T is like.

The feints will work anytime, so just stash them and use them on your gumbalhead after the bourbon run. Anyway, that’s what I’d do if I was in your shoes. Of course, you can do as you’d like....it’s your still.
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still_stirrin wrote:
school wrote:I have done a stripping run on a simple corn whiskey recipe (85% flaked maize, 15% 6-row). I’m wanting to step up to Jimbo’s bourbon recipe next. Would it make sense to take the feints from the corn whiskey spirit run and add them to the first Jimbo run, since they’re fairly close in ingredients? Or just keep the recipe pure and as is? Thanks.
So, you haven’t made Jimbo’s recipe before? I think I’d keep it “by the book” the first time through so you can learn what his T&T is like.

The feints will work anytime, so just stash them and use them on your gumbalhead after the bourbon run. Anyway, that’s what I’d do if I was in your shoes. Of course, you can do as you’d like....it’s your still.
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I think that makes sense and it was kinda my hunch. Good point, if I decide to with the later runs I can add them in slowly so they have less effect maybe. Thank you.
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