Irish syle problems

[davidwh]

Hello all,

Not at all happy with past 3 months work on an irish style sugar/grain wash. Need some straight advice.
It's got a flat nice grainy after taste but the intial taste is ...wow very severe like real high alcho kick despite being at 65% abv and airing for a month, sitting on small amount of sherry soaked light toasted oak.

Triple distilling should produce a smoother "milder" alch c/f to single & double runs is my understanding?

I suspect it has a fair amount of heads ...I can't think of any other factor that would produce such a strong initial bite?

Are the cuts for a irish style triple run as simple as what I've done here...

1st run discard fores, early heads run down to 20% abv.

2nd run same as first.

3rd run discard fores/early heads collect down to 65% abv.

I suspect but don't know for a fact that the third run process produces longer deeper heads and needs a much larger discard of early cuts? There a hint of this on Jamesons Irish whisky site where the 3rd run takes a much larger discarded cut at the front of the run?

cheers

[Prairiepiss]

Are you making your cuts off the still? Maybe I'm not understanding how you made them? Did you let them air out before you made your cuts? Or after?

[Dnderhead]

if i have read this right,,your taking off fores only. and going deep in to tales. if so this will have a lot of bite.
and requier a long aging time.
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 15&t=11640

[rad14701]

Don't base taste/bite on sampling the 65% aging strength... You need to dilute that 65% down to the normal 40% drinking range... Brush up on making proper cuts, airing, blending, and diluting and you should be well on your way to decent spirits...

[davidwh]

Thanks guys,

reckon i f'd up my cuts...got slack did it on smell negected the other tests for cuts i used to do.... It's been re run with a new fresh grain/sugar wash with 20 plus cut glasses to get it right.

I've never had this level of bite in any of 200+ sugar based washes I've done. Amazing what fresh barley brings to a wash.

dave