Hey guys I am in here often reading but I don't post much. I am also a member on Homedistillers.org. My nick over there is Kentucky Shinner. I have started up...
Anyone know what happened to the site this weekend ? Seems to be down ? Ben Cornish National Network Manager Direct 0732349302 Direct: 0282353520 Mobile...
I'm going to attempt my first batch of mash... I have the flaked corn from Brewhaus and some gluco amylase, do I need to get some sugar, that's the real...
Hi again, I did a taste test of my brandy to find that the smell and taste is quite acrid, even after a year in barrel. I have just read that the cognac...
Hi group, Yes it's a mess. Weather Channel keeps updates running. So sorry for our New Zealand group members and families. 80% without power, lots missing and...
6.3-magnitude temblor,caused far more destruction than a more powerful September quake that struck before dawn on a weekend. An unknown number of people,...
I have a question about making cuts, in previous posts people talked about using temperature and ABV% to determine the cut. I don't necessarily subscribe to...
Mike Sula wrote a piece in today's Chicago Reader about Midwestern home distillers making apple brandy and gin: http://bit.ly/i9zNhz <http://bit.ly/i9zNhz%20> ...
I thought Distillers might be the best place for this particular question: I live in the country, and farmers have my utmost respect. I remain wary, though,...
Hi, I have some Rhizopus oryzae at my lab. Is it suitable to perform a fermentation of corn? Juan C. Fuentes 00-58-0414-7753783 Lab. Productos Naturales UDO...
See Honey/Mead/Honey Liqueurs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Distillers/message/3919 also http://groups.yahoo.com/Distillers/message/9242 Since then,recipes for...
Hi Distillers, I was pressing out some Swan Valley Muscat today and took all the pressings down the vineyard to my compost heap. I thought that some one would...
I am changing to a worm for condensing and am having a problem getting it to seal where it goes through the wall of the flake stand. I had a bulkhead fitting...
Another idea I've used for grappa that may work for grain also. I made a false bottom for my boiler from perforated stainless to keep the solids off the bottom...
I would like to try my hand at making (distilling) gin but am a bit confused from my search of the posts as to the actual technique. I don't want to simply add...
More shit coming our way. Biggest blow I've seen in 40 years. I'm right in its path. Sat pics... http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemil ... mscol.html ...
Of microdistillers and moonshine - washingtonpost.com E-mail This page was sent to you by: waljaco@... Of microdistillers and moonshine By Jason Wilson...
Hi, I am looking for a new way to produce corn vodka for a university proyect. I am do want to use two fungus. Aspergillus niger y sacharomise ceverisiae. A...
Got power back yesterday. Got internet a couple hours ago. Using my backup machine. My main workhorse has shit a power supply. Cyclone Yasi was a bitch. The...
Hi, folks, I have been fermenting some peaches (with some water for ease of handling and some sugar so that the water does not make the sugar content too low)....
I repaired a commercial salad spinner at a resturant one time that may work well to seperate grain from liquid. It would hold aprox. 40 l. or so and was a...
Hello all, I want to build a power control for a 5500 watt immersion element (220vac 60hz). I have a 40 amp Triac that should do the job nicely. I see in your...
Not sure if anybody has tried this but I have quite a lot of spent aging chips (oak chips) that I have been saving in a 6L jar (I hate throwing anything away)....
Hi, I had made vodka using only corn. I use HCl, so expensive by the way, Â to hydrolyze the starch. At the end the flavor was rude. I am thinking HCl was...
