Irish syle problems
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:35 pm
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
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