A few weeks ago a friend was showing me his homemade "equipment". I thought to myself, Its been a while since I made any chasers but I'm pretty sure I could show this chap a thing or two.
I went to the store, got 4 big watermelons, sugar and ec1118. 7 days later I had built my "equipment" and was running heads into hearts and called him.
It had the perfect aroma of watermelon. Got about 2 quarts at 150 cut down into 40ABV and had a heck of a tale for family and friends at this past weekends shindig.
Im happy to be here, I'm sure I'll learn a lot, I have done a bunch of stuff also, so. Hello!
Shh....Our secret hobby,
Woodsman
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Uncle Jesse
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ThomasBrewer
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Does the watermelon come over in the heads?
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1HardWoodsman
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Yes its there and faint not overpowering. I split the batch - de$tilled half and put the other half in a gallon carboy to season out to wine. I gave some to a friend who didn't know what it was or that I made it and he said "this watermelon V0dk@ is awesome". Again, I just used a potstill, no fancy reflux.
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1HardWoodsman
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Im about ready to run some Mint wine through that just finished today. I will let you know.
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