effect when drinking your own distillate

[flip]

hi Flip here. Ive tried many distillations, more of them were not very tasteful, and with a low output alchohol in relation to input ingredients. What I experienced with these , when drinking it, was a nasty effect of, first having little effect on one, but then after a while, it hit you hard. Have other persons also experienced this effect? I've recently read tips on this forum to make it taste better, to use charcoal, which seems to help a lot. I'm in a town in South Africa and I battle to get additives.

[rad14701]

Welcome to the forums, flip...

Do some research here n the forums as well as the parent site and you should be able to produce better spirits than you have to date... See the Tried and True recipe section for reliable recipes...

What are you using for a still...???

Good luck...

[Dnderhead]

yes,, what is your still?
what whould you like to produce?
and what do you have available?
we do have a wide asortment of distillers that can make from scratch or ready made ingredients.

[flip]

i have made just about every still I need, from copper and stainless steel. iI have a pot still; and a reflux, the plan from Partyman. Also a fractionising still of John Stone, and the fuel still from Robert Warren .The fractionising still has an element, or rather two - connecting it in series for low wattage. I tried many sugar washes with only sugar and yeast; baker's ingredients is wat I must get. so I need rather simpel stuff. I have just received a yeast and nutrients called N96 [saccharomyces bayanus) it likes fermenting at rather cool 20 degrees celcius. temperatures here are hot, it's a wine yeast. I have sprouted corn and maize that worked well without sugar . I have most testers, PH alchol tester ; beer hydrometer etc. I have lots of samples to taste; most bottles was filled with some charcoal ; tasting much better . I also brewed beer and bottled them too early and am realising my mistake. Another mistake I used to make is to drink too much of my product and make my wife angry. (My wife helped me type this because I can't type much - and my spelling is disgraceful - she says if I sent my first attempt at writing, you would think I'm drunk)