Hi all, Hope everybody had a great New Years (and thanks Harry for the fireworks !). Anyways, a friend of mine in the steel industry, was talking to some ...
You can adapt this to suit yerowndamnself. Big Jim Spiced apple pie drink 1 gallon apple juice 1 gallon apple cider 1 cup sugar 6 cinnamon sticks 5 cups...
Sure. Folks in our area have been making "pie" for years. Take a gallon of unpasteurized apple cider (not commercial apple juice) and add a bottle (750ml or a...
This is the best combo I have found. Credit to DunderHead 4 cans frozin apple juce ,1 tabs apple pie spice ( 1 tea cinnamon--1/4 nutmeg-1/4 allspice) 1 qt...
thanks agian,I'll order some after I build my filtering sysem.also i was thinking of using a soda keg and weld a 1 1/2 inch s.s.sleeve on the bottom of it and...
If the carbon is 1.7L then it should take only one package to fill a 5’ x 1.5” diameter column. Rick If the carbon is 1.7L then it should take only one...
That filter will work just fine. If you want to look at a fully automatic system, check out the new filtering system pics in my photo album under Akjay's...
Hey Thanks a bunch all, Didn't realize it was that popular around here. Definitly will go with the neutral, juice and spices. Now, if you throw a scoop of...
Hi all, Recently been experimenting with speeding up fermentations by adding some of those energy drinks around. These are chock full of B vitamins and other...
Well Jay I'm really impressed with your filtering system and i'm going to order some more soda kegs .Love your 15 gal keg,how did you polish it? it must of...
parsnip and apple sauce whiskey boiled up 20 lbs parsnips then added 10 kilos apple sauce, this is my authentic cristmas idea does any one know if it will be...
Hi J, Probably because many of us have been away or enjoying the holidays. To boil down your questions, (sorry for the pun), I believe most distillers dont...
Sidenote J, If your doing a single malt whiskey and just using malt it is a good idea to seperate the grain before fermenting. As Ian Smiley mentions: "If...
Hi Tim, Again sorry for the delay in responding, as I said earlier, most of us were away or just enjoying the holidays. For our purposes, it is highly...
Thanks I will give that a try, I don't have the problem as bad in the winter, but the summer 90% humidity and 90*f plus, all the flying, crawling and God...
Hi, My name is Fred and I am a newbie to distilling. I have been reading for a solid month and am ready to take the plunge. The only thing I have now that I...
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I found it DUH, DUH, I need to stop the sampling tonight and go to bed Improvise, Adapt, Overcome ________________________________ From: coastalcornliker...
Timing is everything. Caught your message and started a MUm wash yesterday with 10# sugar, no multivitamins, cut back on the epson and miracle grow but added...
Hi Fred, I don't know specifically what you mean by s valved reflux still; but what I do know is that a form of Bokokob LM still with a VM addition above the...
I have a VM still on a 15 gallon keg, It works great, very easy to control, but slow. Product comes off around 95% on first run. Hard to get into the tails...
... Jerry & Fred, That valved reflux design is unnecessarily complicated and expensive to build, for no gain in product quality. Further, the accompanying...