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pythonshine wrote:Don't thing it was an anal ailment, months is my interpretation of another's words so take it with a grain of salt, it sounded more like.....wow that's pretty good for someone who is fairly young to the hobby to be getting into....mind you, with your experience behind him butch, he is well on his way to being a great hobbyist!

I was just bringing clarity to the situation . He was helping me to set my ferments and learning as he went . Then he came back for the strip runs , which is like watching paint dry if you are not the operator or a very interested party . That describes dave . If he does it he wants to do it right . He's gonna be around for the spirit runs , the airing , and the blending for hands on experience while he completes designing and building his second still .
>Watching the light come on in his eyes as he stuck his fingers in the stream flowing from the condenser and feeling , smelling , tasting the differences as opposed to just reading and guesstimating . That's my reward for the countless hours I have spent learning here . And that has cost me a lot of damned money !
>Why , HELL ! I could have got booked as a TV star on Moonshiners If I had just stayed away from this site .

I don't know, you don't seem to be the type to intentionally misleed a body. Yeah I'm hopin to pass that light to somebody someday....congrats for both you and your apprentice!.....right now I'm running 4x8x1/2 yellow hdpe sheet.

I think he thought the 88 gallons was the new guys batch, not your batch that the noon is helping you with.

I thought that too from the way the post was worded.
Call off the hounds.

Truckinbutch wrote:This ain't 'right out of the gate',
neither . I been doin this for a while using what I leaned here and am passing that wisdom forward one on one to a newbie on his way to building his second rig . I've posted numerous times about my setup and how I run as well as many fuckups I've made . Little research here might ease your butthurt if that is what you are expressing .

Whoa, that wasn't judgement, that was jealousy.

I thought you were saying your student had 88 gallons up and fermenting. It'd be awesome to start out with that much raw material, you wouldn't be so panicky about making mistakes.

I am drips of rum goodness coming off of a nice cold worm. Waiting for the girlfriend to walk through the door any minute with the coconut cream and I already have the pineapple juice and rum loaded in the ninja ready to make me some pina coladas

Just finished a 2nd gen SF that I will have to wait to pass judgement on. 1st gen came off nice and is on wood. Right now my thoughts are to stay close to Bigbob when he pulls his jug out. So, I just put a wheated bourbon on ferment. Last month I put a modified Corene's Scotch on wood. It came off very! (difficult keeping my lips off the spout) nice but little peat, Hopefully it will make it to S3:16.

Running 4th gen USSM using dextrose monohydrate to see if there is a difference over reg cane sugar inverted. Hearts are amazing right now. This sugar is made from corn and has less sugar content and I had an og of .05 abv instead of 8% for the same recipe as before. Fermented out the same time. Costs more for this sugar, but this might be well worth the extra. Airing out it should be even better. Will see.

My understanding is that dextrose ferments out completely and cleanly. It imparts very little to no flavor profile on the ETOH. This is why it is what's used to prime bottled beer.

Multi generation of my OG Corn ...Just started charging ...
When I mash back in, I'm thinkn about throwing a pound or two of apples or cherries in the fermenter rite before backsloppin.

Roughly 2/3 malted corn and 1/3 rye
First keeper run on the 25 gallon steamer.

A mix of corn malt, white wheat and rye. Added a half gallon of smokey tails to the boiler after I was in the hearts. Gonna put half on oak and let half white.

I'm not running anything at the moment...the wife on the other hand is runnin' her mouth.....damn.....I don't think I had a spirit run that long....still goin......

Runnin plain ole h20.

Leak testing and pre-cleaning a 3" 3-plate + bubbler.

Oh boy!

I just ran my first sweet feed, made with Blue Seal Pacer.

It smelled pretty sharp right out of the pipe, but after as little as 5 minutes, it softened quite a bit.

Can't wait to taste it tomorrow....

Just finished spirit run from 12 liters of stripped DWWG . Airing and diluting tommorow.

Brown sugar and molasses rum.

Oatmeal and corn sugar head tonite

Currently running my final generation of Rye/Corn sugar wash. I have just over 2 gallons of fients to run next then it will be back to another AG probably Rye again as my original run turned out really nice.

Finally got around to running my 4th gen oat corn I mentioned the.other day. Just a half charge(5galish) once it's done I'm gonna start mashing the 100 lbs of grains I have around

I would do it now but my mash pot is also my shrimp pot and my cooling water reservoir lol. And the 13.5gal 2600w stovetop rig is kinda In the way. God I love running inside(no mosquito's or wind or humidity)

4th birdwatchers.


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Two runs of my corn recipe .. Gonna do em both different, then blend em together.
Gonna run em both thru two plates tho.
Then mash in afterwards.
Ain't nothin to it but just sit on your arse and make damn ole likker.

Spirit run...
Chicken scratch
Four gallons of low wines at 20% and 7 gallons of fresh wash.
Jb-t

another pot still run of oat and corn sourmash, 5th gen

Apple feints run today Well mostly apple There was a jar of pear feints in there too. Funny thing apple came across first then it went to hearts with very little smell, then at the end of the hearts came a jar of pear bomb. I'm doing a bit more refluxing right now to compress the tails and hopefully get a little more yield.

50/50 corn and malted rye. Wasn't even all the way to temp and it already puked. Thankfully i have an inline thumper.

Last run done now I'm taking fores on a 55% corn 18% malted rye 18% 6row and 9% various chocolate malts.

57% corn
14%wheat
29% rye malt
Total 87.5# of grain fermented on the grain in an open top whisky barrel. 45+/- gallon ferment.
Stripping with steam on the grain. Have one more strip to go then a nice spirit run. Hoping for 5 gallons to age but expecting less.

Finally got my first rum going!!! My buddy from st. Lucia got some fine molasses straight from the island for me. No charge on shipping and the 55 gl only 145$ may get a pallet of 4 next time.