What do you make most often?
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What do you make most often?
I really don't have much experience outside of fruit washes and was just wondering what everyone else kinda specializes in?
water + sugar + yeast = wine
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wine + bread = two things I can make at home
water + flour + yeast = bread
wine + bread = two things I can make at home
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Re: What do you make most often?
UJSM, is a staple, i have a 70l feremnter ticking away slowly with ujsm corn and malt barley at all times.
Often do other ujsm's too, with say wheat, barley and malt for the scotch lovers or some such.
Other than that i tend to do cycles of stuff. I'll do fruit for a month or two till i build some stocks up, at the moment it's rum but i've nearly got enough to last me a while now. I'll be starting a sugar wash cycle (i haven't tried plain sugar yet). And about to start some allgrain back up again, it'll be barley and malt barley to start with.
Often do other ujsm's too, with say wheat, barley and malt for the scotch lovers or some such.
Other than that i tend to do cycles of stuff. I'll do fruit for a month or two till i build some stocks up, at the moment it's rum but i've nearly got enough to last me a while now. I'll be starting a sugar wash cycle (i haven't tried plain sugar yet). And about to start some allgrain back up again, it'll be barley and malt barley to start with.
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Re: What do you make most often?
Fast Fermenting molassses.
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Re: What do you make most often?
Grain mash most any kind mostly corn/oats easy to git, favorite is single malt with a touch of rye
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Re: What do you make most often?
UJSM rolling along most times. Working on my straight corn when I have the time.
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Re: What do you make most often?
Light-medium rum is becoming my staple.
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Re: What do you make most often?
A nice bourbon is my ultimate goal. I've been running UJSM for the past few months getting the kinks worked out of my process, but have started working on malting a batch of barley so I can get back to work on the all grain whiskeys. I've also run a couple batchs of apple brandy, but that's more of a seasonal thing.
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Re: What do you make most often?
UJSM is the most frequent. I'm wanting to get started on more all grain mashes. I've never made a rum, so that is also on the list. I seldom run any neutral at all.
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Re: What do you make most often?
Plain sugar washes mostly and a few ujsm(still trying to get it how I like it) and have just started to do some Pugi rum
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Re: What do you make most often?
Wineo's wash as a base for gin.
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Re: What do you make most often?
All grain wheat as per this., although I'm going to try to do Dunder's boil-steep-boil method (no sparge) to see if I can get better yields.
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Re: What do you make most often?
ujssm, rice and rum
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Re: What do you make most often?
My own version of UJSM , wineo's neutral, then rum, but more the latter two.
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Re: What do you make most often?
Variants of DWWG and several other cereal based sugar washes... Would love to do grain mashes at some point, when I have space for a full blown tinkering area...
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Re: What do you make most often?
UJSM without the sour part!
When I'm finished fermenting I let it set for a month sometimes before I run it off. Then I siphone it into the still and make a new batch while it's warming up. When I'm done distilling there's never any place to put the backset, I just dump it. Someday I'll try it though...someday...

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Re: What do you make most often?
you'll get a better tasting product with it i would think. better send me some to trygoinbroke2 wrote:UJSM without the sour part!When I'm finished fermenting I let it set for a month sometimes before I run it off. Then I siphone it into the still and make a new batch while it's warming up. When I'm done distilling there's never any place to put the backset, I just dump it. Someday I'll try it though...someday...

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