What'd ya'll make today?

[Beerswimmer]

Put my milkwine on oak. Tried some, excellent!!!

[Beerswimmer]

Began my quest for the ultimate heavy rum by starting a small molasses wash.

[DFitz]

In the midst of my third run on some rum washes. Planning to fill my barrel tomorrow. I hope to have enough left over for some silver.

[cactusbrew]

I did two cleaning runs and I am watching my first ethanol cleaning run now with old box wine. I will update with how it all went

[Jimbo]

Stripped a 10 gallon wash from 20 lbs red wheat malt in 11 gallons water, 1/2 gallon backset and 2 tsp gypsum. 1.7 gallons at 37% yield. Pulled a quart of hearts out at 45%, really tasty. This is my favorite of the 3 grains so far, (all barley, 75% cracked corn and now wheat). Really tasty, but we'll see how they all shape up on oak after a few months.

Happy New Year.

Cheers,
jb

[wfw52]

Ran a 13 gal rice wine spirit run today through my pot still, then reloaded and ran with my reflux with 6 inches of packing . after cuts ended up with all most 1 1/2 gals 165 proof not a bad taste kinda differant . my first try with rice , see how it tastes after cutting to 80 proof tomorrow. thinking good supply of vodka at least !! Happy new year all !! wfw

[Beerswimmer]

Running a gen and a half of sweetfeed.

[ron71157]

cooked 5 gallons WPOSW except used brown sugar and molasses 64 ozs 120-140 proof started gen V sweetfeed from gen IV backset i had frozen.

[Jimbo]

Did a spirit run on 3.5 gal low wines collected from two 10 gallon strips of AG Wheat Malt. 40 lbs total Red Wheat Malt fermented to about 1.004 with US-05 Ale yeast. Gonna pull a fifth of White Dog Wheat out of the hearts, and do the cuts tomorrow on the rest to age up on oak. Jars range from 80% to 62%, #3.4.5 are qts, the rest pints. There were a couple jars after of tails, Jar 10 is worth saving as feints, it tasted better than 9, oddly enough, but then 11 went to total shit fast.

I did a first pass tasting for cuts, but damn if this isnt some tough business. Im gonna post up another thread on cuts, have some questions, even after reading piles of posts here on HD on making cuts. Damn it, I really need 3 fingers in a glass, all aged up nice, to know if Im diggin it. Sip this sip that, fucking hell, Its like stumbling around the Museum of Art, fuck I dont know whats good, its all a bunch of fucking paintings. I started jabbering on this forum a little too proud of my ability to cut apple brandy after 17 years. Shit now Im even doubting that.

[Jimbo]

Ok I made the cuts I was lamenting below. For some reason it all made more sense the next day. 40 lbs of Red Wheat malt gave me 2 fifths of Red Wheat White Dog, watered down to 94 proof, perfect for a couple fingers with a couple cubes. And 3/4 gallon of 148 proof aging on 0.5 oz medium toast cubes and 0.25 oz light toast chips.

Edit: BTW, buy a small glass wine thief! I did the cuts with the wine thief and a glass of water, 1/2 inch (in the thief) of 80%, 1/2 inch of water. And so on. Made it very easy to eyeball all jars down to ~80 proof for tasting.

Cheers.

[rgarry]

I struggled with cuts and then switched to a flute and it really made the cuts so much easier. My spirits improved in quality but my skills probably decreased. I just run it quickly when I want some smearing. Anyway, did 12 gal of nchooch bourbon, have 12 gal of Wineo to run and used the backset off the bourbon to jump start a run of UJSSM.

[frozenthunderbolt]

First strip run of a heavy rum (100 L wash all told made with 20% aged dunder, 6KG blackstrap mollasess and 12KG white sugar) damn me if it didn't puke! Fist time since I was a total noob i've had it happen, and i've made a LOT of rum since then (not a larry LOT, just a normal LOT)
gravity was at 1.000 or there abouts which i though was damn low for a rum - must not have quite finished still.
Funny thing is that I actually quite like it to puke on the strip run for rum - gives the spirit run a bit more flavour.
RUMRUMRUMRUMRUMRUMRUMRURMUMR

[Beerswimmer]

Just about to do a spirit run of sweetfeed gen 2. I stripped 30 gallons of wash and collected about 7 gallons of low wines. Mixed the low wines with a little wash in the boiler, can't wait until it goes on oak!

[wfw52]

Had a nice surprise , I posted makeing a 15 gal batch of rice wine the other day that turned out ok after 2 runs, might run it again. But I pulled a gallon of the rice wash set it asite , it cleared up real nice after a few days. Darned if it an't tasty , has slite sweet delicate flavor with a kick . Gonna have to do that again and bottle be up a case in wine bottles....wfw

[Beerswimmer]

Just about to do a spirit run of sweetfeed gen 2. I stripped 30 gallons of wash and collected about 7 gallons of low wines. Mixed the low wines with a little wash in the boiler, can't wait until it goes on oak!

Damn. Must've run it too slowly. I ended up keeping only 2 gallons cut to 130 from 164-120 proof. Oopsie

Put it on charred oak sticks, I'll check back on this in 6 months. Pretty sure I lost a lot of flavor

[rgarry]

Let it sit on the oak, taste it every month and I bet its great. I have take some good neutrals, Oakes them for 1-2 months and people don't believe it was a sugar wash.

[Beerswimmer]

Yeah, I noticed it.was a bit slow but I ran it as I always do. Next in the shed is making a parrot!!

[njscofflaw]

Since the still is finally ready to go, I'll be able to start on my backlog of washes and mashes (2 Persimmon Brandy washes, and an AG Rye Whiskey)

Since those will be departing shortly, I've started my first UJSSM, slightly modified as I decided to do it as "cooked" wash. I also decided to do a simple experiment and threw 5 gallons of old pasteurized apple cider into a fermenter with some baker's yeast (first time using it) to see what I might get out of it.


Damn its addicting...

[Poseidon]

Just running my first UJSSM I was hoping to find it as sweet as everyone had said but it's more neutral than anything I think and it's a slow run on about 45 liters mash it's 4hrs n I've tossed 200 ml as heads was sweet at 70% now running into the 55% range. If the wind would stop blowing and changing the temp that would be just swell lol nearly 750 ml just hasn't worked out the same as I remember my grandfathers still running. I swear I think everything is right I just think my Liebig leg doesn't condense enough any pointers would be great.

[Beerswimmer]

Maybe angle the arm so it's pointing more down than straight out? Also it sounds like you were maybe running it too slow.

[Odin]

Making Hotka as we speak! And some fresh wheat/malted barley base vodka as well.

Odin.

[Gaztops]

Another BirdWatcher's sugar wash went on the go yesterday should be stillin' by the weekend.

[Jimbo]

Did another 40 lbs Red Wheat Malt mash. This is quickly becoming my favorite. Easy recipe, really tasty spirit when done.

Here's my recipe... http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... wheat-malt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

And here's my label for it

[ron71157]

Running 5 gallons WPOSW getting 93 % through the hearts...32 ozs so far and still (HAHA) going strong


SOME KINDA FUN !!

[Richard7]

Running 5 gallons WPOSW getting 93 % through the hearts...32 ozs so far and still (HAHA) going strong

[Ghost]

Did another 40 lbs Red Wheat Malt mash. This is quickly becoming my favorite. Easy recipe, really tasty spirit when done.

Here's my recipe... http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... wheat-malt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

And here's my label for it

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I dont know about the whiskey but I sure do like the label!

[wfw52]

Oh boy, did my first try at Rum yeasterday , 15 gal batch all went well it seems it started working slowly first 1 hour . Got up this morn and walked down the hall way to kitchen noticed a odd smell (still half alseep) time got to kitchen I new what it was . Man that molases was stong !!!! steam engine out the airlock going on. had to fix this before the mrs gets up
came to mind doing my ferments in the kitchen wasnt her first choice of places. So I opened the window 3 ft away , stoked the wood stove up a little in the other room opened the door , closed the damper a bit let a little smoke in the room did the trick !!! didnt even mention the molases smell , remined me to open the damper before openning the stove door though .......

[bellybuster]

Mixing up 40 litres of all bran today with a bit of a twist. Using raisin bran instead and tossed in a quart of fancy mollassis that I had in the cupboard. Starting gravity yet to come, sugar still on the stove.


Starting gravity corrected 1.063. That equals 8.5% when finished, should get about 3-3.5 litres of product if my calls are right

[BourbonStreet]

I finally cooked up some AG, after 5 or 6 runs of UJSSM. It's a modified NCHooch Bourbon, with some malted rye thrown in. The mashbill is roughly 60/20/20. It tastes good and sweet, so the conversion worked. I tested it, and the SG is at 1.052. I can't wait to taste the final result.

[wfw52]

Ran my first 16 gal rum batch yesterday , was kinda a success . I used 3.5 gals of feed grade mollasas (had 33% suagr) ,8 Ib brown sugar , 6 tbls tomatoe paste , 6tbls of boiled trub( I save in frig) , 3tbls yeast energizers , 6 tbls prestarted distillers yeart. Took off like a rocket for 2 days !!! the cap on the air lock road 3/4 in past the top with out falling for 2 days.......crazy !!! the stannless steel firmenter was realy warm to the touch, wish I would have check the temp. 3 day it was done! ( wondering if High temp could of killed the yeast ?) started with a Sg 1.11 stopped @ 1.o4 , didn't taste sweet, more a bitter strong mollassas . still seemed to high so I re-pitched a 4 tbls yeast, yeast energizers, another tbls tomatoe paste in a pre-start mixture. It tryed to go again barrly but hardly move the airlock, so I let site another day , same 1.04 Sg so I ran a slow stripping run in 2- 7gal batches worring it might foam up.(didnt) first 7 gal run was the best, really strong mollasses taste though, even pulled a pint to save. Second run had some off flavors compared to the first run . this may have bin do to the fact the top half was clearer than the bottom half of the wash. Didnt notice this until I was loading it into the still on second run (should have let it sit for a few more days and settle/clear) Anyway I ended up with 3 1/4 gals on the stripping run from 65% down to 20% on a 15 gal wash(doesnt sound like enough) hopping the spirit run will dull the heavy mollasses taste . need to figure out why it stalled at 1.04 , reading the treads hasnt turn up much. but I did read clarifing the molassas may help. ........... wfw