Hello All, New to the hobby, located in OH. Focused on creating a homemade rye recipe. Reading the boards avidly and trying to soak up as much as i can! Lots of great info here!
Bought a Brewhaus- Essential Extractor Pro Series II- Complete Package.
One day may decide to build my own but figured starting here would be safe from a build perspective and be a good foundation for learning and allow both pot and reflux.
Planning to do an all grain george washington rye using BIB mashing/cook technique.
So far I've completed-
Water test
Vinegar run
Sacrificial Run- Cheap Wine & Water
Initial George washington rye run, low yield due to heavy sedimentation. 45% abv hearts
Sugar wash run with turbo yeast in reflux- high yield 93/94% abv
2 subsequent George Washington runs ~50% abv hearts
Plan is to collect hearts and maybe some tails or heads and redistill 5 batches of the first run rye distillate together to make something i can put in my 5L charred oak barrel.
We will see how it goes!!!
