Yaks Museings.

[yakattack]

Im starting this tread as a place to record thoughts and processes and experiments. Im not worried about the direction the thread goes. its just going to be a run on conversation.



so i am sitting here doing my first appl brandy run. its been almost 5 months aging as a hard cider.
Set up the boiler this morning racked the cider into the boiler at settled in for a long slow run.

Washed my cashe of jars. 2 hours into heating up i was still not up to temp. controler issue that took 30 seconds to fix.
filling jar 4 ring now ( 250 ml).

This smells good. The cider was tart, semi dry and very good.
13 gallons in the boiler.
one small leak at the column to boiler connection.

one thing i am noticing is there is not much of an alcohol smell to this. not like whiskey or vodka when running. i can pick out the apple but i have to look for it.

I can already see why this can take a few seasons to really get a handle on it.

I had considered doing stripping runs and one long run but i dont think it will keep all the flavour that i want so a few slow runs is how i am going to do it.


Thats me today.

Yak