Many like to post about a first successful ferment (or first all grain mash), or first still built/bought or first good run of the still. Tell us about all of these great times here.
Pics are VERY welcome, we drool over pretty copper
it's so damn late. couldn't help myself. pitched it all to the fire tonight, tossed off the foreshots and half the heads (for good measure). collected a quart of heads for next run. grabbed 3 quarts hearts, and now grabbing tails for next run.
all of it ran at 90 proof. and cloudy as hell. way too tired to worry about it now. maybe tomorrow i'll get some info.
so now i'm debating on whether to rerun it all for refining to a higher proof. taste is not harsh like i expected. i been drinking crap all these years....
Dear lord, please allow this dangerous combination of hair spray, bat slobber, and DOT4 automatic transmission fluid to excite my mind, occupy my spirits, and enrage my body.
Congrats on your first run mate!. Did you do cleaning and sac runs?. Sounds like you didn't do cuts?. When you say its cloudy, was it cloudy from the start?. If so, you've probably run it to hard and smeared over tails, might explain the low abv too, if not, then its just oils in tails mixed with heads and hearts making it cloudy. I'm just clutching at straws lol.
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googe wrote:Congrats on your first run mate!. Did you do cleaning and sac runs?. Sounds like you didn't do cuts?. When you say its cloudy, was it cloudy from the start?. If so, you've probably run it to hard and smeared over tails, might explain the low abv too, if not, then its just oils in tails mixed with heads and hearts making it cloudy. I'm just clutching at straws lol.
i think you are right. i looked into it. ran it hard as balls. no drips, just a steady stream. the taste wasn't bad, but i think i'm just gonna have to bite the bullet and throw it in again.
Dear lord, please allow this dangerous combination of hair spray, bat slobber, and DOT4 automatic transmission fluid to excite my mind, occupy my spirits, and enrage my body.
