apple whiskey?

[ackbartrapfinder]

Hey guys I was thinking I would make some apple jack or maybe some High test apple "whiskey"

5 gallons apple juice- 2 16oz apple concentrates- 4lbs of destrose.

Let it ferment out.

Run the pot still try to get 40-60%?

[Dnderhead]

id leave out the dextrose

[ackbartrapfinder]

really? Maybe mash some grain with it?

[biker geek]

I was daydreaming about this the other day. My idea went something like this:
Part 1
use 10# of apples, a mix of whatever apples are available. Prepare as if making an apple wine.
-cut up apples
-put apples in fermenter and cover with boiling water
-after the solution has cooled, add a couple of crushed campden tabs(wait 12 hrs)
-12 hrs later add pectic enzyme(wait 12 hrs)
Part 2
(The next day)
-mash 10# of 2row with rests at 105f and 148f
-add mash to fermenter with apple mash
-cool to 80f and and pitch yeast

I haven't figured out which yeast, but I was thinking about a belgian ale yeast or something like WLP001. One extreme or the other.

It's still just a day dream, but it sounds like a good idea.

[rad14701]

biker geek, you're better off sticking with Tried and True recipes until you have enough experience to venture off into uncharted territory with experimental recipes... One of the biggest problems with novices is that their imaginations get the best of them and they prematurely start tinkering without knowing enough theory or have enough practical application to know the How and Why... There will be plenty of time to experiment once you can attain repeatable results with a known recipe... And we'll be better able to assist you when and if things go awry as well...

[dragonfrog]

I'd leave out the pectic enzyme - pectin can make your cider cloudy, but you don't care because you're not drinking it as cider. It also releases methanol when it breaks down under enzymatic activity. Better to just leave it behind as pectin in the backset.

Another thing to consider - why not just make a straightforward apple brandy? You can always mix it with whiskey in the glass if that's what your cocktail calls for, but you also have the choice of leaving them separate...

[biker geek]

I didn't mean to hijack the thread. I apologize. It's just an idea. I have thought about doing a a beer like this, but it's a ways down the road. I've a bunch of other grain bills to mash before I can get to this one. I think the next mash will be a Rye pale ale. I am also going to make a sugarhead wash and mash the NcHooch recipe as soon as I get the pot still wrapped up.

[bamaspearo]

This may be stupid but was thinking about making a whisky mash and an apple wash then running each separatly to get low wines then combine the whisky and brandy for the spirit run.,,,,, apple whisky?????

[RNaka]

This may be stupid but was thinking about making a whisky mash and an apple wash then running each separatly to get low wines then combine the whisky and brandy for the spirit run.,,,,, apple whisky?????

I recently did two batches: mashed 3lbs of steel cut oats with enzymes and added 4 gallons of apple juice with 4 cans of apple concentrate topped off to 6 gallons. Two stripping runs followed by a spirit run

Sitting in glass with 1/3 oak spiral (heavy toast).

I think it great.

Next time cracked corn and AJ