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Just started a oatmeal cookie wash.

Let me guess tater, local grocery store tossing out expired oatmeal cookies?
Sounds interesting, you ever done that before? What is your intent with the product?

Close a buddy drives a cookie route truck. Took 77 lbs of oatmeal cookies and 3 lbs of rye malt and added enough 150 degree water to make 20 gallons . Stirred well and am going to add yeast tomorrow. Gonna add yeast but not prestart it.When I read ingredients Wheat flour. sugar.rasin paste .oats .and 2 types corn sugar in that order. also other stuff used in baking .Any way rough figure on sugar content was 30.8 lbs in 77 lbs of cookies. Not sure what rasins and corn syurp will add. Or if malted rye will have anything to convert.Just have to wait and see. Am trying to filter out some and get a sg reading .

Hi Tater,
Please let us know what will happen with your cookies wash...
Cheers.

Took sg reading on cookie wash this morning on some that I filtered. Was 1.080 at 70 degrees f. Added 21 grams distillers yeast and 15 grams ec1118 and stirred yeast in top 6 inches or so of wash. Its fermenting hard and in 3 hrs had formed a 5 in head.

That sounds like it's gonna be TASTY. Keep us updated.
I want some.

Cookie wash fermented hard and fast first 5 days .Has slowed down and only has a inch or so head.Smells more like an ale or beer now instead of cookies.

That is some kinda wild mash you got going there, Tater. Very curious how it turns out.

Tater,

How's the cookies coming along?

About done fermenting now .Has a brown color to liquid and oats and flour have settled down to bottom. Smells like ale to me .Gonna run it soon have to decide if im gonna double boiler still it as is or put 6 inches or so of hemp sacks or some kind of filter in my strain barrel and filter it through that. SG is down to 1.010

Tater Many THANK YOUs. Those two pictures and the time line have spoken volumes to me.

Tater,

I've got to say that is looking pretty good!

Tater,

Are you going to do a secondary fermentation on it or is it already past the point where you would do that? I know a secondary ferment or 'Conditioning Phase' has a big impact on most beers, just not sure what impact it has on something meant to be distilled.

I dont know much about making beer so I cant say. I will let it ferment compleatly out and sit a few days before running it.

Decided to try filtering cookie wash and its been slow going. Wash however is still fermenting along. Should have about all liquid im gonna get out of it by first of week.[attachment=0]oatmeal

nice tiger print

Would that be a "Belgian tiger"? (We call them leopards over here )

Tater; "you Crazy"!
Can't wait to hear how it turns out!
Post it on the Mash Ferment section.

I'm doing 3 carboys with Corn, Rye, Barley mix. Gonna try to use em for sour mash.

The Chemist wrote:Would that be a "Belgian tiger"? (We call them leopards over here )

damn you'r good

all the tigers living in our forests have those prints

hope thats not the other halfs skirt, i get killed for "borrowing" items for my fermentin n stillin

but nice job u will have to let us all know how it sups and how it tastes as a wine to if it turns out good let us know the recipe

Ran cookies today after straining I had around 11 gallons wash. I ran this fast taking no cuts from 110 proof till reading dropped to 15 proof getting 3 gallons total. Reran that 3 gallons tossing a pint of forshots and qt heads .Started160 keeping proof was 150 and ran till proof dropped to 90 getting 1 1/2 gallons of 130 proof . Will air out a few days and temper to 100 proof .Has the oatmeal taste with a slight fruit after taste. Figure this was do to raisin paste in cookies.

Oatmeal cookie likker has aired and been tempered to 100 proof am suprised how good it is.Gonna put some up for a year to see how it does over time and give away and drink rest of it.

You Say, give???

Found the jar of cookie other day thought it had all been consumed .Was close to a year old when some friends and I test tasted it I had thought till gone.But found a 1/2 pint jar in back of closet with the lid saying cookie likker on it.Was about 2 good swallows in it and it still tasted good.

Pretty fancy straining bags, where you'd come across them.

That was a blanket

That is funny. I was just talking to the wife last night about how the guys on this forum will make a wash from anything that has grain or sugar in it.

cheers

~bd~

It's good to know that if I ever become a drag queen that all the clothes I buy can double as filter bags!

I love the tiger print strainer bag!

Its funny, because I am new to this hobby but some things come so natural - I got the idea (by myself) I need to strain all that spent corn muck out of my UJSSM wash when racking. By chance I used an old pillow case - with a fancy disney print! and a large child's hairband to secure it around the boiler. Worked a treat. Necessity is truly the mother of invention, but you've topped me with that leopard print.

how did this turn out?