It's your rabbit hole, call it whatever you likeGrappa-Gringo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 12:05 pm Can Sweetfeed whisky be considered "white dog" ? I want to make some labels and don't know if Sweetfeed can be considered White dog.. please advise....cheers GG
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I drink so much now,on the back of my license it's a list of organs I need.
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It has rounded out and is much more pleasant to sip on. The white dog was sharpe, with almost a bitter finish (but I'm not sure that's quite the right way to describe it) and had a "musty" flavor and smell like stuffing your nose in the bag of sweet feed that has been subdued. This was made only a few months into my distilling journey, and I probably could have done the cuts better. But the sweetfeed white dog was not as easy to sip on as the corn whiskey white dog, that's for sure.Tim Julius wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 7:05 amHow did you find the flavor of your sweetfeed distillate after aging it on oak cubes for over a year, compared to the initial white distillate? Have you noticed any significant changes in taste or character during the aging process?wscywabbit wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:14 pm So I did a search (being lazy) for sweetfeed and then replied to the conversation thinking I was looking at the main sweetfeed conversation... turns out I was not. But I wanted to post this here as well as it seems to be the more appropriate location for my interjection:
Sweetfeed is the second recipe I tried (after Uncle Jesse's) when I started distilling about a year and a half ago. Compared to the corn whiskey, I didn't care for the white distilate from the sweetfeed. So I put all of it in the shed on oak cubes. A little over a year later, this stuff is delicious! My friends couldn't stay out of it, so I find myself guarding the last 1/2 fifth of the 3 I ended up with. I have a feeling I will be making more before long...
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It was sitting on medium toasted and heavily chared (not quite alligator, so level 4?) cubes at 120 proof, and has also picked up some of the vanilla and char notes from the oak that pair nicely. It does have a rum-esk quality to it but also has a heavy sweetness from the grain...
It goes really well in a cup of coffee, or just neat in a glass. I'll have to try it in a coke... I bet that would great!
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Of course you can call it white dog...Grappa-Gringo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 12:05 pm Can Sweetfeed whisky be considered "white dog" ? I want to make some labels and don't know if Sweetfeed can be considered White dog.. please advise....cheers GG
Here's a definition of white dog by foodrepublic.com:
Also known as white lightning or white whiskey, white dog is essentially whiskey that has not been aged. Since it's bottled straight from the still (sometimes diluted with water), it doesn't acquire the added color and flavor that comes from barrel aging. It can be made from various grains like corn and rye, and is often referred to as moonshine.
Read More: https://www.foodrepublic.com/1418823/wh ... s-whiskey/
I guess some could argue that white lightning and moonshine refer more to corn whiskey, but I tend to agree with the above definition.
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This is the ingredients list; I am not smart enough to know if any of that is a preservative or addition that should be avoided, I have always wanted to do a sweet feed!!!KegStand wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:19 pm Has anyone tried the Blue Bonnet sweetfeed from Chewy? Delivered to your door for fairly cheap considering the quality.
https://www.chewy.com/bluebonnet-feeds- ... /dp/231982
It’s got oats, cracked corn, barley and molasses. No pellets and legitimately all grain + the molasses.
Anyways, thought I’d share as I’ve got 20 gallons fermenting right now almost ready to strip.
Whole Oats, Cane Molasses, Whole Barley, Cracked Com, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Rice Hulls, Wheat Middlings, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Rice Bran, Lignin Sulfonate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Cobalt Carbonate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Zinc Sulfate, Biotin.