What'd ya'll make today?

[SaltyStaves]

How did it go? Super peaty or what?

It gives me flashbacks to drinking Ardbeg's wash.
Fermentation has just started and I'm nervous about the smells it might put out. Also showing potential for a big foam-up (even though its in a fermenter with 50% airspace).

[Rrmuf]

......fermenting, fermenting. SG is at .994 but it's still bubbling.

[dieselduo]

......fermenting, fermenting. SG is at .994 but it's still bubbling.

More than likely it's just off gassing if it's.994

[zed255]

Rum. Lottsa rum, at least by my standards anyhow. Actually it was yesterday, but finished the cuts, blending and dilution today. Ended up with a little over 5 gallons of 'ageing strength' at 62% ABV, and a gallon of strict heart cut 'drinking strength' at 50% ABV.

I only do about one rum run a year, but when I do it is processing 60kg of Crosby's fancy molasses in a 210l wash through five stripping runs and a spirit run. I strip two or three a day over a weekend and spirit run another weekend. I had an absolutely full keg boiler this time after adding Pugi's 'rum oils' late tails collection from the last batch, without being exact it was on the order of 56l of 35% ABV low wines. It was also the gift that just kept giving, powered on at 6:45am and was finally back upstairs after breaking the rig down and rinsing at 11:15pm. Looong fricken' day.

[Rrmuf]

......fermenting, fermenting. SG is at .994 but it's still bubbling.

More than likely it's just off gassing if it's.994

SG dropped a bit but I think you're right. Its done.

[Durhommer]

Started a 2900sq ft home today set green plate and lower garage wall waiting on steel beams to set floor joists

[Rrmuf]

Clearing one batch of TedFFV and started another.
... and researching!

[tombombadil]

Used my steam stripper for the second time, very happy I put that thing together.

[howie]

had some feints from a rum pot mode spirit run on monday, best cuts of that are on oak.
run the feints today, diluted down to 40% for a 13L charge in full reflux mode as suggested on this site.
i've got 20 x 250ml jars of interesting stuff to taste tomorrow.
took it off real slow, first readings were 98% abv (temp corrected to 95.8%) with both alcohometers (highest i've ever got so far)
hopefully some light, ready to drink rum will surface in those jars.

[Yummyrum]

Sounds good Howie

[howie]

Sounds good Howie

thanks, it was your suggestion IIRC.
i was pleasantly surprised at the amount of flavour that came through.(equivalent of about 10 plates?)
cheers

[Beerswimmer]

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First real run in the new 26 gallon boiler. I put 25 in and there's plenty of room left. This is the first run of rum for a home Cousin's process experiment to try and make DOK at home

[The Baker]

Hanging up the Christmas lights.

Geoff

[tombombadil]

How did it go? Super peaty or what?

It gives me flashbacks to drinking Ardbeg's wash.
Fermentation has just started and I'm nervous about the smells it might put out. Also showing potential for a big foam-up (even though its in a fermenter with 50% airspace).

That sounds promising!

If Ardbegs Wee Beastie is still young at 5 years then a homemade Islay style likker should be pretty intense!

[Beerswimmer]

5 gallons of 'ageing strength' at 62% ABV, and a gallon of strict heart cut 'drinking strength' at 50% ABV.
a 210l wash through five stripping runs and a spirit run

Zed, is that from just one 210L wash? Or, how many 210L washes?

[zed255]

5 gallons of 'ageing strength' at 62% ABV, and a gallon of strict heart cut 'drinking strength' at 50% ABV.
a 210l wash through five stripping runs and a spirit run

Zed, is that from just one 210L wash? Or, how many 210L washes?

Just one wash. My rum comes out really clean. Fores taken on each strip and again on spirit. Half gallon of heads. Literally everything made the cut down to 57% ABV, yummy dark fruit notes in the early tails.

The ageing cut was a little wider than the cut to be left white.

[Beerswimmer]

[zed255]

What's confusing?

[Beerswimmer]

What's confusing?

It's just that I need more than 2x's the amount of wash to get 5 gallons @ 62%. What was the abv of your wash?

[zed255]

The 60 kg of fancy molasses that is about 65% sugar (per the label) made up to 210l of wash ends up fermenting out to about 11% ABV. Bear in mind, I had to dilute my blend to get to 62% ABV, and obviously the stuff left white was diluted. My cuts ended up around 73% ABV aggregate. My still when running low wines hangs in the high 70's for quite a while.

[Rrmuf]

Picked up a brewzilla! Looking forward to using it. Also taste tested some of my OEG gin with friends.... They are still my friends!

[Deplorable]

Racked off a 25 gallon mash of single malt to clarify for a stripping run this weekend, and cleaned the fermenter and all the other crap. I got about 23.5 gallons, and I'll probably lose another 2 to custard as it rests.

[Beerswimmer]

I emptied the boiler and saved some dunder, got a new ferment going with some dunder. Now I just lit the fire to reduce down the liquid from the thumper.

[Yodaspike]

So i have been fooling around with stills and sugar washes and wines, and decided to make a rum wash.
So here it is, 10kg sugar inverted, 50kg at 43% sugar molasses mixed in 110lt water with 100gr yeast starter and about 40gr bakers yeast dry, 2 pineapples, 4 oranges sliced 1 kg peaches sliced, air rated for 20min, hand full sea shells, and daime, 6 hours later its like a Jacuzzi in there, bubbling without any breakes, never seen anything fermenting like this, any ones ells had this?
O and sg could not be read, more than 1100, will see what happens.
Irony is, tested sg and was 1100 added water and then it was way over, not sure why.
Will report back after 2 weeks

[Yodaspike]

Wanted to add a clip but able to....but trus me its bubling non stop like a air pump

[Honest_Liberty]

First proper AG "bourbon" wash spirit run, kind of a mishmash of recipes but still all the ingredients added up. The daggum low wines sat for over a year and I could easily have drank them white, as was. I'm a bit bewildered by that.

I'll never go back from all grain

[Durhommer]

Did layout set rim and rolled first floor floor joists got half the subflooring on and we all decided to have a shooting competition between a NATO ar 15 a 22/250 a 17hmr and a 30/06.at 400 yards we were center and low

[Deplorable]

Dropped off a wet 5 gallon bourbon barrel at the winery to fill with 5 gallons of Malbec for my special order. The barrel was emptied last week of a wheated bourbon it held for 14 months. Should make for a spectacular hearty red wine.

[SaltyStaves]

Stripping heavily peated single malt.
Foam bubbles are bursting in the sight glass and I'm just applying enough power so they go no higher.

[Deplorable]

Stripping heavily peated single malt.
Foam bubbles are bursting in the sight glass and I'm just applying enough power so they go no higher.

Thats the way I do it.