Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!!!

[DistillerofDisdain]

Using one of Mile Hi Distilling's 8 gallon pot still with a 3 gallon thumper... 150 proof sweet tasty rum. It was fantastic. Was a little scared of using the thumper for my first run, but I figured I had nothing to lose, besides 18 lbs of sugar and a bag of turbo. It took about an hour and a half to get going. But about an hour later, I had 4 liters of 150 proof rum.

Ok guys... is it always this simple?

DoD

[NcHooch]

I think you'll find you can make EVEN BETTER hooch following one of the tried n true recipes .

[Prairiepiss]

Congrats on your first run. Did you build the thumper? Or is this something new mile high is selling.

And a turbo wash I wouldn't really call a rum. I mean technically it could be called a rum made from sugar cane. But it won't be the same as rum. And if you think that OS good. Wait till you try a good recipe from the tried and true section.

[RevSpaminator]

Ok guys... is it always this simple?

That depends... does it smell at all like nail polish remover? Will your skeptical girlfriend/wife/partner/whatever drink it? Success with distilling is somewhat subjective. I would be very surprised that would be able to get great product from your first run. The reason I asked about nail polish remover is because you mentioned 4 liters in an hour, which seems a little fast and usually means poor separation.

Keep reading this site and listen to these guys. They know what they are talking about.

[King Of Hearts]

Did you make cuts?

[DistillerofDisdain]

Ok guys... is it always this simple?

That depends... does it smell at all like nail polish remover? Will your skeptical girlfriend/wife/partner/whatever drink it? Success with distilling is somewhat subjective. I would be very surprised that would be able to get great product from your first run. The reason I asked about nail polish remover is because you mentioned 4 liters in an hour, which seems a little fast and usually means poor separation.

Keep reading this site and listen to these guys. They know what they are talking about.

No smell of acetone. No taste of acetone. It did have a little "wet cardboard" smell to it at first. Once I filtered it, that went away, and I was very pleased with the taste. Thanks!!!

[DistillerofDisdain]

Congrats on your first run. Did you build the thumper? Or is this something new mile high is selling.

And a turbo wash I wouldn't really call a rum. I mean technically it could be called a rum made from sugar cane. But it won't be the same as rum. And if you think that OS good. Wait till you try a good recipe from the tried and true section.

Mile Hi sells a thumper. I think I might be the first person to use it! I was very satisfied using the turbo, but lets not beat up on me too much. I figured I would get the basics down first, then move into non turbo mashes, along with malts and grains.

[DistillerofDisdain]

Did you make cuts?

I did. I cut it down to 37%. Very smooth, yet still maintained its richness. I kept a little bit of 75% for cooking with.

[Oxbo Rene]

Did you make cuts?

I did. I cut it down to 37%. Very smooth, yet still maintained its richness. I kept a little bit of 75% for cooking with.

LOL ! ! !

[King Of Hearts]

Did you make cuts?

I did. I cut it down to 37%. Very smooth, yet still maintained its richness. I kept a little bit of 75% for cooking with.

Ok, so what was the size of the wash, % abv and what were the % abv cuts and amounts?

[DistillerofDisdain]

Did you make cuts?

I did. I cut it down to 37%. Very smooth, yet still maintained its richness. I kept a little bit of 75% for cooking with.

Ok, so what was the size of the wash, % abv and what were the % abv cuts and amounts?

Forgive me, the only answer I have for you is the wash size, which was 6.5 gallons. Being this was my first batch, I was a little hasty (maybe VERY hasty) and didn't do much measuring or note taking. I was tickled pink just to see something come out of the condenser. To be honest, I didn't really expect anything decent to even happen.

My next run will be the Sweetfeed Whiskey. I plan on taking copious notes in order to keep good records.

[Dnderhead]

""I cut it down to 37%. Very smooth""
"cuts is not diluting ,,not in this case .its taking off in fores/heads/hearts/tales.
this simply removing the bad from the good..

[King Of Hearts]

Did you make cuts?

I did. I cut it down to 37%. Very smooth, yet still maintained its richness. I kept a little bit of 75% for cooking with.

Ok, so what was the size of the wash, % abv and what were the % abv cuts and amounts?

Forgive me, the only answer I have for you is the wash size, which was 6.5 gallons. Being this was my first batch, I was a little hasty (maybe VERY hasty) and didn't do much measuring or note taking. I was tickled pink just to see something come out of the condenser. To be honest, I didn't really expect anything decent to even happen.

My next run will be the Sweetfeed Whiskey. I plan on taking copious notes in order to keep good records.

Ok, 6.5 gals with 18lbs of table sugar will give you 12% if fermented out all the way. It is suggested you leave 30% head space in the boiler, which would be 5.6 gals. You can probably be ok with 6, you obviously did 6.5 and had no problems? A different wash might if say you ran an all grain wash or beer. Just to give you a heads up.

[DistillerofDisdain]

""I cut it down to 37%. Very smooth""
"cuts is not diluting ,,not in this case .its taking off in fores/heads/hearts/tales.
this simply removing the bad from the good..

Ahhhh.... I did not "cut". I should have though. About 10 ounces in, I took a small sample, and it was great. As I continued it lost some of its quality. not enough to call it bad, but enough to notice a difference.

Thanks for being patient with me. This nomenclature is killing me.

Is there a glossary somewhere?

[LWTCS]

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 46&t=30458

[bentstick]

Save a jar pint,qt or what have you,put it away, make a rum wash out of tried and true then try them side by side! Have fun and be safe and congrats on the first run you have lost your stillin cherry, now time time to learn the right moves for the big O of quality product!

[King Of Hearts]

You can always re-run it and make proper cuts for practice, but dilute it down to about 25 or 30 abv before you run it. Never run over 50 abv, my low wines are sometimes 40 abv. You run the risk of explosion with high abv runs, keep it safe. There is also other reasons to keep it lower, because of bonding with water.