Distiled IPA beer

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bovillia
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Distiled IPA beer

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Well a 5 gallon batch of IPA beer didn't turn out to well on its own, and a run through the still changed it a full 270 degrees. It was a bit minty to try to describe it best. Well I added medium toast an a few alligator char pieces. It is quite an interesting spirit, and I am trying to classify it for a name.... its not a whiskey or bourbon, or rum or brandy, so what would you classify it as?
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I would classify it as a major cleaning process to get all the hop oils out of your still! =)

In all seriousness though, hops is no good for your still, glad however you got a drinkable product out of something that didn't work out!
Depending on your style still it would probably be classified as a flavored neutral
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Well, it's barley malt right? So technically it's scotch... with hops. Call it hopscotch
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Bob Loblaw wrote:Well, it's barley malt right? So technically it's scotch... with hops. Call it hopscotch
Omg. Did he really type that? :esurprised: :clap:

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I rely on the anonymity of the internet for my corniest jokes :D
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I could hear the groans at the NSA all the way from here.

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Hopscotch, I like that. I think it shall be labeled as such. And for cleaning the still, I really didn't think of that, but I guess I should get on it as I'm running the rest of my sugar wash today and then my trial of hook rum. I guess I better get it going on some vinegar......
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This thread brings up another question....
Since I live in the PNW, there is beer everywhere. Hoppy delicious beer and I have access to a lot of it. What if a person were to build a separate column and condenser just for beer runs? I would imagine the hop oils would be hard on your column and condenser but your boiler (keg) would be much easier to clean if even necessary. Just a thought. Any opinion? I know you guys have opinions!
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If I had it I would run it, then clean with a fores n heads run. I think every one has a surplus of those to run should clean up just fine. My .02$
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Charbay R5 is a whiskey distilled from Racer 5 IPA, so it sounds like you got something similar.
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