I need directed!

[Oak Pollen]

In the older version of the parent site (wiki) there was a page describing various recipes. Two in particular, the first was sweet feed, which is in tried and true recipes, but the other was Tennessee whiskey, it had a little rye in the grain mixture and a touch of maple syrup in the aging. I think. Does anyone know what I am talking about? Can anyone direct me to that page? Thanks for this site!

[8Ball]

https://homedistiller.org/forum/app.php ... mit=Search

[Oak Pollen]

I did that, a lot on sweet feed but I don’t find anything on Tennessee. Maybe I’m just going daft.

[Demy]

Have you tried in this section? https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=14

From the google search function I found this, maybe it will be useful https://homedistiller.org/forum/app.php ... itesearch=

[Oak Pollen]

Denny, that wasn’t what I was looking for but definitely good info. Thank you. The piece I am referring to was by one of the old hands describing the various styles. Each style was covered by a different author. I remember the sweet feed piece and further down the line American whisky and the differences between Kentucky and Tennessee whiskey. The author used smoked maple syrup instead of charcoal. I don’t remember when or how much. It’s a bitch to get old. The first thing to go is your memory. I don’t remember what’s next.

[Yummyrum]

Oak Pollen
The old parent site seems to have been replaced by the wiki . I personally feel your frustration that it has gone .

The old version was out of date and contained a lot of information that has been proven to be wrong over the years since it was first written .

However , I wish there was a link available to that old site regardless as it did contain a lot of good stuff that I also miss .

[Oak Pollen]

So be it, nothing lasts forever! My thanks to all.

[greggn]

but the other was Tennessee whiskey, it had a little rye in the grain mixture and a touch of maple syrup in the aging.

Here you go ...


Tennesse Whiskey

Here is one recipe for Tennessee-Style whiskey. With practice, you will be able to produce a high quality product comparable to the better Tennessee-style whiskeys on the market, such as George Dickel.

Jack advises ...

I just found the "mash bill" that is made of. It consists of 80% corn, 12% rye, 8% malt (a high enzyme 6-row variety will be needed). It is distilled once in a pot still with a thumper, then filtered through a 10 foot layer of maple charcoal (this takes about 4 days). It then is placed in new, charred American oak barrels where it ages for 5 years, 6 months before it is bottled.


Another iteration of the same process...

aged in the same way, with the same grain bill, but it is filtered through maple charcoal again after aging. By the way, it was 1941 when the American government gave Tennessee whiskey it's own classification.

regarding a homemade version, Jack adds ...

I have tasted this recipe when home made and it was better than the original, using this mash bill. The distillery uses 80% corn, 12% rye, 8% malt (6-row). They ferment with 25% backset from a previous distillation run- homemakers should do the same. They use a 64inch diameter copper beer still with a doubler- but a homemade potstill with two runs (collect one-third of the mash volume out of the still as low wines, then re-run it, collecting from 75%abv to 55%) works just as well. The resulting spirit is then aged on charred American oak, and sweetened with a dash of REAL maple syrup (the kind that has a slight smokey flavor)- this will taste JUST like the store bought spirit- but will be a LOT smoother. The spirit should be aged at less than 65%abv, to prevent vanillins from clouding up the smokey sweetness from the maple syrup.

[Oak Pollen]

This is the one. Thank you so much! Let it be known that Greggn is a scholar and gentleman!

[HomerD]

Oak Pollen
The old parent site seems to have been replaced by the wiki . I personally feel your frustration that it has gone .

The old version was out of date and contained a lot of information that has been proven to be wrong over the years since it was first written .

However , I wish there was a link available to that old site regardless as it did contain a lot of good stuff that I also miss .

An archived version that is searchable would be great.

Homer

[greggn]

I wish there was a link available to that old site regardless as it did contain a lot of good stuff that I also miss .

The internet has been archived and you can find it via the Wayback Machine. Seriously.

I pulled that Tennessee Whiskey recipe using the following link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140702062 ... ssee_swill

It took only a minute of poking around to find that but all of the links I tried returned the requested page. The content of the original "Parent Site" is still out there (its images are now just stored elsewhere).


In general, navigate to the Wayback machine using: https://web.archive.org/
Feed it a website, select a date. Obviously, there may be issues retrieving content but for older sites built from plain html, text, and using local links, the content should be fairly complete.