G'Day from Ontario Canada
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:17 pm
I have been brewing all grain beers for several years now with a keggle and mash tun and have now decided to give distilling a go after tasting some rum my neighbour made with his new T-500 attachment for his Grainfather....
I picked up a homemade still using a 50 litre keg with a 2" column and removable dephlegmator.
I have a 6 gallon brown sugar wash bubbling away now, I didnt have any DADY yeast so I pitched in some hornindal kveik yeast and a few packets of some BE-134 saison yeast that expired back in December, should be interesting...
I am trying to decide whether to run this in one shot with the dephlegmator in place to get some high proof or whether to run it in a couple of runs in pot still mode... I am far from having my sea legs on what to do yet but have been reading a lot...
My wife just got 2 4L jugs of blackstrap molasses so I am going to put together a rum wash next, then I may as well try some all grain spirits since I am all set up for that stuff already, including a large selection of malted barley on hand (I am in a beer club and we buy grain twice a year in bulk for considerable savings).
I look forward to figuring this craft out and learning from all of the contributors here!
Cheers,
Jon
I picked up a homemade still using a 50 litre keg with a 2" column and removable dephlegmator.
I have a 6 gallon brown sugar wash bubbling away now, I didnt have any DADY yeast so I pitched in some hornindal kveik yeast and a few packets of some BE-134 saison yeast that expired back in December, should be interesting...
I am trying to decide whether to run this in one shot with the dephlegmator in place to get some high proof or whether to run it in a couple of runs in pot still mode... I am far from having my sea legs on what to do yet but have been reading a lot...
My wife just got 2 4L jugs of blackstrap molasses so I am going to put together a rum wash next, then I may as well try some all grain spirits since I am all set up for that stuff already, including a large selection of malted barley on hand (I am in a beer club and we buy grain twice a year in bulk for considerable savings).
I look forward to figuring this craft out and learning from all of the contributors here!
Cheers,
Jon