Re: What'd ya'll make today?
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 4:48 am
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)
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.
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)
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.
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