What'd ya'll make today?

[higgins]

Did 2 spirit runs this past week. On Thursday I pot-stilled my Single malt low wines, and on Friday I pot-stilled a Bourbon.

The Single Malt (68 lbs/31 kg) was fairly typical, except that the crystal and chocolate malts came thru quite nicely. My SM feints are from peated whisky, and this one did not have any peat so I didn't use the feints. This will fill a badmo made from once-used bourbon barrel staves, with maybe a little white dog left.

So now I have another set of feints to save (I have bourbon, rum, rye, and peated SM feints saved up, and now non-peated SM feints, too)

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The spirit run on the bourbon was also fairly typical. The mash was 52.5 lbs/23.8 kg (37.5 lb/17 kg cornmeal, 10 lb/4.5 kg rye, and 5 lb/2.3 kg pale malt). I had expected about 15 gal/57L of beer and 10 gal/37.9L of mash slurry - that is about what I normally get. But this time, even with 3+ weeks of settling, I got 10 gal/37.9L beer and 15 gal/57L slurry.

So I decided to do 2 strip runs ... load 5 gal/19L wash into my steamer (7.75 gal keg) and load 7.5 gal/28.4L slurry in my main boiler and run it like a thumper. I added about 55 oz/1.6L of bourbon low feints (18%) to the beer for each run. I ran each one until the ABV off the spout was under 5% and collected 7.1 gal/26.9L @ 34.5%. So then I added 80 oz/2.3L of 80% bourbon feints to the low wines for the spirit run.

I've not yet made the final cuts, but my estimated yield is close to 3 gal/11.3L of 62%. That will fill a Badmo (new AWO with a 1" wide raw cherry stave in the middle) plus another gallon+ for my faux solera bourbon system.

[PalCabral]

Happy workers' day, everybody! Here in Europe most countries have the day off and for me it's a perfect day for my hobby.

I ma doing a spirit run of my wheated Bourbon today, just entered the "Heads" fraction of the run. My better half, who is not the slightest impressed with my life choices of hobbies, said: "see you tomorrow". At least she didn't say "see you never", but I think that's not far away... Many hours remaining.

[Corn Cracker]

Happy workers day, seems your taking advantage of the day off
she sounds like my wife

[PalCabral]

Happy workers day, seems your taking advantage of the day off
she sounds like my wife

[SW_Shiner]

Put down two brews yesterday. A YLAY wheated whiskey, 10kg corn, 6kg wheat topped up to 60L. And a feijoa wash, 6.5kg feijoa topped, tailed and chopped and 4.5kg sugar topped up to 26L @ 1.075. As of this morning, the YLAY has blown all the water out of the airlock. What little water does remain makes enough of a sound to know its still working. The feijoa is fizzing away nicely.

[tombombadil]

Started a new run, first of two mashes:
50# Wapsi Valley corn
25# Rye Malt
Voss yeast

I made a small batch like this a while ago and liked it a lot so now I'm making enough to fill a 5g barrel.

I'm thinking about calling it "More Money Than Brains Bourbon", since the corn was silly expensive and probably doesn't make a big difference.