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jedneck wrote:Running a malted corn, malted white wheat and rye right now. Half of The corn and wheat where smoked with corn cobs. Just hit un tainted hearts hope more smoke comes in, not much there yet. But holy sweet buttery bisquits. This one might have to stay white.
Stripped on the grain with steam. Spirit run pot and thumper charged with water collecting a pint every 10 min.

If you Oak that one I myself would Classify it as "Ruint."
That sounds good enough to pour on Pancakes in the morning.

Oaked half the other half is back lubricator. Might be some white left for jedfest.
Did find the smoke had to go deep in the tails. But I think in a good way. I like the bitter.
I believe it would have been a good match for my wild yeast. Maybe next time.

10 gals German Pilsner. Avangard Pilsner malt. Czech Saaz hops. White labs Pilsner Lager yeast. OG is 1.052. Simple recipe. Took 5 gals to a family reunion a few months ago, everyone loved it.

Did the cuts and nuked the CB&BM (Cornbread and Buttermilk) whiskey that I did the spirit run on yesterday. I nuked 2 quart jars with about 3/4 quart in each jar using a 3/4" X 5" toasted and lightly charred once used white oak stick in each jar. Wrapped them with towels and put them in a Styrofoam cooler to cool from 150 dF to room temp, then into the freezer for a few hours, and back to room temp before straining into a 1/2 gallon pickle jar to age for a few months.

Just mixed up a batch of birdwatchers/ froot loops. First ferment since April!!!

Stripling 1st gen uncle Jesse using oats. Gonna run 3 gens to try making a clear apple pie. Then 4 the gen on is aging stock.

Now doing a spirit run on an all grain sweetfeed.

Single run of sweet feed on my 4 plate flute

I made neutral apparently.

Dadgummit, flipping neutral.

Hadn't done any runs since the beginning of summer. Now kids are back to school and I had some corn/barley low wines that needed ran. Thought I'd run them through a short packed column LM with a bubble ball. Didn't check abv as it came off. Must have ran too slow.

At least I have heads and tails in small jars for blending. I suck at blending those ultra compressed tails though.

Kegg_jam wrote:I made neutral apparently.

Dadgummit, flipping neutral.

Hadn't done any runs since the beginning of summer. Now kids are back to school and I had some corn/barley low wines that needed ran. Thought I'd run them through a short packed column LM with a bubble ball. Didn't check abv as it came off. Must have ran too slow.

At least I have heads and tails in small jars for blending. I suck at blending those ultra compressed tails though.

Don't jump the gun. Let it air, then a little tails and some oak will help ALOT.(no heads)

frunobulax wrote: Don't jump the gun. Let it air, then a little tails and some oak will help ALOT.(no heads)

Oops. I wasn't clear. I meant that I collected in small enough jars that hopefully I can put something together that has some corn goodness. The hearts came over at 93%. The tails jar will sure make you pucker. Still airing. Haven't made any firm cuts yet.

I made a stir plate out of a scrap busted stir plate tossed at work. The electronics was toast so I ripped out the boards and put an SCR in to control the stir bar motor, just like our big boy 10,000W ones but I think this one was 1500W, forgot exactly. $5 on ebay long while back when I bought the others. Anyway, it drives the motor at all speeds just fine.

The 2 liter Erlenmeyer was $22 on ebay and the stir bar $4. Ready to propagate some yeasties.

Soon as I find an empty fermenter I'm gonna fill it up with nothing but smashed peaches. Gonna let the wild yeasties have there way with it. When done fermenting the shooting match (minus the pits) gets dumped into the steam stripper. Gonna save a gallon of peach juice to charge the thumper with on the spirit run.

I didn't really make anything. Me and my daughter drove up into the mountains and got 20 gallons of water that was pouring out the side of the mountain from a natural spring. Good tastin' stuff. It's goin' into my next mash.

jedneck wrote:Soon as I find an empty fermenter I'm gonna fill it up with nothing but smashed peaches. Gonna let the wild yeasties have there way with it. When done fermenting the shooting match (minus the pits) gets dumped into the steam stripper. Gonna save a gallon of peach juice to charge the thumper with on the spirit run.

For future reference a bushel of peaches is 5 gallons + of goo.

Running batch 2 of Kirsch today. This is what 80 lbs of cherries looks like after squeezing and settling out. About 5 gallons above the sludge. Going 2 plates today, did 1 plate last time. I think the flute passes enough flavor that Im gonna give 2 plates a crack to see how the cuts compare.

Jimbo, what are your plans for aging this - cherry wood maybe?

Hey SC, no the Kirsch I leave white, traditional for this stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Just finished the run, pulled about 36 oz keep at 78% avg. 2 quarts at 82proof. I added the feints from last run too so the yield was pretty nice. Flavor is just as nice as the 1 plate run last time. These flutes are a magical mystery tour.

Also workin on a couple quarts of PD, one strawberry, 1 raspberry. These need to be strained off still and the fruit sugared.

edit: Interesting, that wiki says about 22 lbs of cherries go into a 750ml bottle of Kirsch. Definitely takes me more than that. 29, 32 last 2 rounds of this. FWIW

Jimbo if you want a really nice variation on the raspberry PD I soak 8oz of white on desiccated coconut for the same time. Strain it off and sop of any oils on the top and blend into the raspberry PD. I call it RCPD. My wife's favourite so far.

Nice tip thanks!

A single malt of Golden Promise grains. I mashed, sparged and a 10 minute boil of the wort. I got about 11 gals of 1.056 SG using 22 lbs, of grain, not that great but I can live with it. I bought a 55 lb sack of the grains, so round 2 will be Friday.

I finally found the time to run off 14 gallons of Unicorn Sweat cereal wash today Tomorrow I hope to run the cheez-it wash

50/50 cracked corn and rye flour. Opti-mash enzymes.

Wish me luck.

I recommend using ultraferm in conjunction with optimash. Really good stuff

I squeezed 90 lbs of f@&*%#$ grain (bourbon) with a motherf@#*%)*@! mop wringer.

mop wringer helps, but its still a pain in the balls. gotta be a better way. (ya ya I know SteamEngineJed)

Ass-press. Sit there, play the full version of "Stairway to Heaven", and you're done - except for cleaning up the mess.

haha! Brilliant SC

jedneck wrote:Whiskey I hope and a fu©kin mess. Drill mixer broke so I had to go old school with a paddle.
45%,wheat
30% corn
15% barley
10% oats
Hopefully converted with shed's enzymes
Gonna try and match Jimbo's and Flatwood's multigrain. Ain't fun if you don't have a bar to set. And I'm setting it high.

Gonna strip this tonite. Just gonna dump the whole floury mess rite into boiler.

Jed, that looked like my corn and rye when it went in the fermenter. Can't see shit now cuz the yeast are having a friggin orgy. Now at least I know what to look forward to.

Dadburnit Jed, that's almost thick enough to pass a concrete slump test.
Ain't direct steam injection great
Let us now what the ABV of the low-wines comes out at ?

shadylane wrote:Dadburnit Jed, that's almost thick enough to pass a concrete slump test.
Ain't direct steam injection great
Let us now what the ABV of the low-wines comes out at ?

I've poured thinner concrete. 2nd pint collected was 55%. It would be very hard to get me away from steam injection.