Noticed someting odd

furball · Post by **furball** » Thu May 26, 2005 4:19 am

Getting my mash ready for the next run this weekend, I was skimming off the top layer of floating material ( I save it for the next batch as a source of yeast) when I noticed something odd. The floating residue had an oily feel to it, my wife and I make coconut oil and I recognized the feel.
I took most of the stuff I skimmed and placed in a sauce pan and heated until the alcohol boiled off, then I started to see small amounts of oil floating.
Any thoughts on this phenomena? the mash consists of about 15 lbs of corn ( this is from the first mash) 6lbs of oats, and 18lbs of sugar in a 15 gal batch. Any one else see anything similar?

Furball

Pieterpost · Post by **Pieterpost** » Fri May 27, 2005 5:36 am

I've seen small oil droplets form when I was mashing corn ..... as far as I could see it didn't affect my fermentation!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 27, 2005 8:41 am

Yeah, I have to agree. The fermentation appeared to be normal, and is ready for the pot on sunday!

Furball

seedsprout · Post by **seedsprout** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:53 am

I used pine nuts as a spur of the moment thing..... There was what looked like chilli oil floating everywhere.... The pine nuts made the whole thing oily feeling in your mouth, Haven't stilled it yet but I hope the oil doesn't come threw.

Pieterpost · Post by **Pieterpost** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:35 am

seedsprout wrote:I used pine nuts as a spur of the moment thing..... There was what looked like chilli oil floating everywhere.... The pine nuts made the whole thing oily feeling in your mouth, Haven't stilled it yet but I hope the oil doesn't come threw.

I must say that this was to be expected! Pine nuts contains lots of resins !

Keep us posted on the results, I am curious how this will turn out !