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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

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?

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

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...

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