My recipe followed a hybrid of Booner's:
42 lbs feed corn
30 pounds feed oats
9lbs malted rye
Split grains into two 10 gallon HD coolers.
Added 8 gallons 200°F water at 6.85 pH
Added high temp alpha. Once cooled I put in gluco and my grains. All said and done, iodine was good, topped off and added yeast. Took off vigorously with big oat cap. Knocked out down, mixed, all that. Fermented out dry. I took my gravity and it read 1.050 with temperature correction was 1.053.
I had 44 gallons of available 48 gallons total in volume between (2) 24 gallon fermenters.
When I wringed through the mop wringer, I only ended up with 25-28 gallons of wash. They trapped A TON of water!
Now, takeoff on the still was only at 55% with a fully, loosely packed copper scrubbers in 2' column on pot still.
Collection already down below 40% before I collected a gallon, just an hour later.
This is way too much time and effort to get such shit results. I have limited time to make enough volume to get through the season and to build up aging stock, even though I already have a ton. I wanted a full 5 gallons of bourbon aging at 60%.
It appears to me in only going to end up with maybe 1.5 gallons at 60%, if I'm lucky, by the time this is double distilled.
I'm clearly doing something wrong here but I'm not sure what. I'm wondering if I should dump at least half the grains back in the coolers, add boiling water and repeat the process. There's no way this the only alcohol production I'm getting from 80 POUNDS!
unless, and this is definitely possible, that I'm completely off IV my expectations and that's just the way she goes. I just don't remember this small of a return on my time with my last batch of all grain
All grain woes. Something's gotta give here
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All grain woes. Something's gotta give here
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All grain bourbon for testing my patience
Whatever else is left goes to the Homefree, because, I hate waste
All grain bourbon for testing my patience
Whatever else is left goes to the Homefree, because, I hate waste