Home Distiller

Well uni break is coming up so I've finally got some time to distill again. I'm helping Dad out with harvest again this year so I've got practically limitless supplies of malting barley, wheat and oats. I'm hoping to make an almost completely from scratch alcohol (the yeast being the only thing I didn't produce myself). I was thinking of practicing malting and mashing by making some neutral grain spirits before I try whiskey. Plus I've got a whole lot of fruit syrups in need of some spirit.

Just for those of you who have tried both, do you think grain or sugar wash produced a cleaner spirit?

Sugar tends to leave a little sharper bite than an all grain mash. Easier to produce though.

Thanks. Will hopefully remember to take pics so I can do a full report on how it went.

The grains will have natural yeast on em.
You could easily experiment with small amounts exposed with water to find a natural strain off your own farm and isolate and propogate it.
Would be a fun experiment.

If you build your still properly and get aezotrope alchohol, you'd have to be better than me to taste a difference tween feedstocks, but the price is right and you have the satisfaction of knowing every step in production is clean and safe and yours.









AVeryWorthyGoalPunkin

punkin wrote: If you build your still properly and get aezotrope alchohol, you'd have to be better than me to taste a difference tween feedstocks, but the price is right and you have the satisfaction of knowing every step in production is clean and safe and yours.

AVeryWorthyGoalPunkin

Some farmers have such an abundance of grain they even use it in a wood style stove for fuel, You could even supply you're own heat source although I'd rather see the starch converting to alcohol.