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If you can cook you can make a good mash and make a good drop so don't let the nayayers here that would be happy with a microwaved hotdog get you down. It's really not all that hard to produce a good drop. My first run, 12# cracked corn, 10# sugar, 1# each malted barley,red and white wheat in 8 gallons of water, following the very basic protocols yielded 3 1/2 quarts of excellent whiskey. It's all subjective. There are many here that think buring a hotdog over a campfire is cooking and those that can cook you a gourmet meal, pay attention and learn wisely.
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Why do you need sugar if you can cook?
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Using sugar Is considered a saftey net.
When you start doing AG you'll make a much superior product.
When you start doing AG you'll make a much superior product.
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I have a suspicion the OP was drinking while posting...
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adding sugar I would struggle to call it whiskey
anything less than a couple years old I would also struggle to call whiskey
I'm sure it's delicious moonshine and tastes better the more you drop
anything less than a couple years old I would also struggle to call whiskey
I'm sure it's delicious moonshine and tastes better the more you drop
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Is unaged new-make not Whiskey? I've never seen anything that says it isn't. Unaged Whiskey is still Whiskey.squigglefunk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:46 am adding sugar I would struggle to call it whiskey
anything less than a couple years old I would also struggle to call whiskey
I'm sure it's delicious moonshine and tastes better the more you drop
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I have a suspicion the OP was cooking while drinking...
Sure it is. And a 100% wheat whiskey right off the spout ain't nuthin' like moonshine.
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If you have to ask...
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I don't know but minus the flavors a barrel rest would add it tastes like whiskey. I have an AG, actually Shineon's HBB, currently with a cap looking like a bran muffin and sounding like a bowl of rice crispies and occasionally like someone ate too many beans. Come on guys this really isn't rocket science if some oldtimers could do it in the woods over a campfire. I don't recall my grandma having a degree from the Culinary Institute but folks around her table were too busy eating to worry about it.To those that have answered my questions with aplomb and grace, cheers!
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What else you gonna do while the corn cools down enough to add the barley and wheat...
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True dat. The message of your original post was totally on point. While the forum has a number of professional cooks on board, many more members bring their lifelong home cooking skills and threshold for experimenting to bear. Nothin' like takin' a few of the important things in life to the next level.Almtngoat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:02 pmWhat else you gonna do while the corn cools down enough to add the barley and wheat...
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you can call it what you want my friend, I call that white dogDeplorable wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:33 am Is unaged new-make not Whiskey? I've never seen anything that says it isn't. Unaged Whiskey is still Whiskey.
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Those who know me well know I can cook very well those who know me very well have seen the progress I have made in making better spirits and now we have have reached a point where people know me well want me to cook and pour for them I am starting to think that I should fuck up some so there is less work on my part
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Those who know me well know I can cook. Those who know me really well know I am just starting to make a decent and improving spirit. Those who know me REALLY well know better than to ask for either one, as they’ll get more by being patient!Ridgeback816 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:51 pm I am starting to think that I should fuck up some so there is less work on my part
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True dat. The message of your original post was totally on point. While the forum has a number of professional cooks on board, many more members bring their lifelong home cooking skills and threshold for experimenting to bear. Nothin' like takin' a few of the important things in life to the next level.
We cook because we love to eat. We distill because we love to drink.
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Well I got some honey barley and wheat cornbread cooking and it smells awful good I wish I had a little 5 gal rig back when I spent every weekend camped in the Sierra or deserts of Ca.
We cook because we love to eat. We distill because we love to drink.
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Well I got some honey barley and wheat cornbread cooking and it smells awful good I wish I had a little 5 gal rig back when I spent every weekend camped in the Sierra or deserts of Ca.
Life's too short to not give it all you have, live, learn and drink whiskey!
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My goal is to put my AGs down to rest in a barrel for a proper rest and use the sugar heads off them for every day. There is nothing wrong with either one but one is for the buzz the other is to savor getting that buzz if that escapes you then enjoy the hotdogs.
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