Maple Charcol Filtering

[azwhiskey]

Regular Jack Daniels is not my favorite, but I got a bottle of Gentleman Jack and it is quite tasty. I think I read they filter through maple charcoal twice before putting in the barrel to age? I did a search on "charcoal filtering" and didn't see anything on maple charcoal.

Anyone got experience with maple charcoal filtering?

[NZChris]

JD have a video showing what they do. A search should find it.

[der wo]

No answer to your question, but the second filtration of Gentleman Jack is done AFTER barrel aging. This is an important detail, because it shows, that the JD maple charcoal filtering has only a small filtering effect. Filtered through a 1-2m pipe with granulated charcoal an oaked spirit would come out still sweet but colorless normally.

[shadylane]

I think it's called the Lincoln county process

[still_stirrin]

I think it's called the Lincoln county process

https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog/2 ... -charcoal/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow


Cheers.
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[azwhiskey]

I bought some maple smoking chips, made come charcoal out of them, and packed a 3-1/2 fool tube. I ran some cheap Coulsons American Blended Whiskey through it. I did not rinse the charcoal. First pass turned black, but filtering through multiple coffee filters got it brown again. I saved that, and ran more through the column 4 times. Both samples have kind of a burned taste, not sure if it really mellowed it. Any thoughts?

[ShineonCrazyDiamond]

Any thoughts?

1) You started with crappy whiskey, so you got crappy whiskey.

2) It always amazes me that people burn wood, run an extractive solvent through it, and then are surprised that it taste burnt.
A) You should have rinsed the wood first.
B)But time aging will change the burnt to caramel like flavor. That's how JD gets away with it.

3) The fact that your liquor was still brown means that you ran it too fast through the charcoal, and simply washed the charcoal with it, instead of 'seeping' it through.

4) You would have been better off just lightly toasting the maple, and aging the liquor on the maple.

Those are my thoughts, though.

[azwhiskey]

I wasn't trying to make gold out of lead, just experimenting. I like Gentleman Jack. and supposedly they charcoal filter it after barrel aging. I just wanted to see how it would change the taste.

[NZChris]

I wasn't trying to make gold out of lead, just experimenting. I like Gentleman Jack. and supposedly they charcoal filter it after barrel aging. I just wanted to see how it would change the taste.

Who told you that?

http://www.jackdaniels.com/vault/charcoal-mellowing

[der wo]

He is right. Normal JD is filtered before aging. Gentleman jack before and after aging.
https://www.diffordsguide.com/bartender ... -mellowing" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[azwhiskey]

JD says they use a 10 foot deep charcoal bed, and it takes days for the whiskey to travel through that. I flushed my 3-1/2 foot column with distilled water and am going to try another run.