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Recipes • Re: for sale/wanted section

2019-01-28T22:25:22+00:00

Sorry to hear of the Health issues VT.
You are too far from me,
I hope you receive a decent donation for your kit.
It is possible to distill in small spaces, is it not?

ATB

Robert.

Statistics: Posted by Easydrinker — Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:25 pm

Recipes • Re: for sale/wanted section

2019-01-28T11:37:16+00:00

You have a PM

Statistics: Posted by Mash — Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:37 am

Recipes • Re: for sale/wanted section

2019-02-02T18:27:03+00:00

Hi all.

I have a beer fridge which is a Seimens intergrated type fridge controlled by an ITC-1000
It isn't fitted into a unit but is used as stand alone on a worktop.

This is FREE for collection only, along with as much FREE homebrew gear you can carry, but a small donation would be appreciated.
My reason for sale is that I am moving into a sheltered apartment due to ill health.
My location is about 5 miles East of Norwich.

Anyone interested please PM me.

Statistics: Posted by vino-tinto — Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:59 am

Recipes • Re: Benchmarks

2019-01-26T22:08:53+00:00

Why does all this make the phrase "selling out" come to mind?

Robert.

Statistics: Posted by Easydrinker — Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:08 pm

Recipes • Re: Benchmarks

2019-01-26T15:00:05+00:00

Ralfy Mitchell has made it his policy to no longer review whiskies without an age statement. I now rarely purchase whisky without an age statement or bottled at 40 ABV. I have to agree that many whiskies even with an age statement are not what they where even ten years ago.

Statistics: Posted by just sayin' — Sat Jan 26, 2019 3:00 pm

Recipes • Re: Benchmarks

2019-01-26T06:38:36+00:00

Yes. You really can taste the difference.

I did safety work in Glenmorangie distillery over 50 years ago. It don’t taste the same today.

Statistics: Posted by Pyro — Sat Jan 26, 2019 6:38 am

Recipes • Benchmarks

2019-01-26T00:50:18+00:00

I'll set mine..
Just about any Islay malt with an age statement - 10
Famous Grouse - 5
Johnnie walker - 2

My Sloe Gin last year -10
My Damson vodka -7
My gins oscillate from 2 to 7

I didn't do much new in 2018 apart from essences, which is where this forum was when it started .
Prestige Bootleg Baileys (Irish Cream) gets only a 9 because of the need of a daily shake.
The rest of their stuff varies between 5 and 7 for me.
Beware their Jamaica Rum, and maybe halve the concentrate?
Although I cut back on all of them.

For those pondering the phrase "age Statement" , Scotch is now in such high demand worldwide that distilleries are now bottling and selling malt far short of the traditional 10 years in a cask.
You really can taste the difference.

Robert.

Statistics: Posted by Easydrinker — Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:50 am

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-06T13:07:18+00:00

More of a Buccaneer myself John. I keep my Buccaneers
under my buckin' hat.

Statistics: Posted by gaza the instructor — Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:07 pm

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-05T22:07:35+00:00

I loved Biggles books as a kid.

Always wanted to build a steam powered lake or river boat. I lived on the Sacramento river (California) for several years. 1000 miles of waterway. Many old steamboats but I only ran diesel.

Statistics: Posted by RumJohn — Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:07 pm

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-05T20:47:34+00:00

Not a steam engine John, I can just imagine you
as a steam boat Captain John.
Reminds me Captain W.E.Johns wrote all the Biggles
stories and lived next door to my Dad in Hampton
Court when he was a boy. Told me Cptn Johns used
to tell him Biggles stories in his garden. Sadly
neither are with us any more, but how quaint.

Statistics: Posted by gaza the instructor — Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:47 pm

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-04T15:30:35+00:00

@Maker. Dump your Vodka Star and use a plain old bakers yeast. I use Angel. I t is available in the UK. Amazon I think.

You will need to add some nutrition as GS seems to be limited. I use fresh dead yeast.

You want flavour, so no reflux, packing, etc. Run it wide open. Heat setting to give a good boil, but its not a steam engine.

You are not after a neutral.

Statistics: Posted by RumJohn — Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:30 pm

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-04T15:16:09+00:00

@Mash. I dont understand your last. My time zone is AWOL.

Statistics: Posted by RumJohn — Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:16 pm

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-03T18:09:43+00:00

RJ I have been following this. That's a good explanation for me.

Statistics: Posted by Mash — Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:09 pm

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-03T12:51:57+00:00

I had a quick look at the numbers you are getting to see what you might expect.

Your 6 tins of GS in 25 litres should give you about 10%ABV in the wash so you start with 2.5 litres of alcohol max. You then collect say 4litres @50%ABV in the strip so you have about 2 litres of alcohol per strip, 4 litres total now from both batches. So you have most of the alcohol from the wash now.

Measure the ABV of your fores, heads, hearts and tails left in the boiler and you should be able to see where all the alcohol ends up. Your half gallon of clean spirit may be all that your system is capable of.

Making up some numbers purely for illustration, starting from an 18 litres spirit run:-
100ml of fores @90% = 90ml
500ml of heads @80% = 400ml
2500ml of hearts @75% = 1875ml
15000ml of boiler tails @10% =1500ml

Adds up to 3865ml which is close to the 4 litres of alcohol you started with. Plug in your own actual values and you should see where it all goes.

Statistics: Posted by Flump — Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:51 pm

Recipes • Re: Cachaca - cane spirit

2019-01-02T22:19:44+00:00

Hey John, on the run again...!

The recipe is simple, I ferment 6 x 907g tins in a 25 litre bucket with 50g of bakers yeast at a temp of 26 degrees until finished, I then strip the alcohol with my still on full power and collect nearly a gallon, I don't go below 30%.

When I have a couple of gallons of strip I then add to the still with the same amount of water and bring to the boil, once hot I reduce the volts to the heater until I get a drip, drip, trickle coming out. I take a 100ml as fores and collect in 100ml measures until I have passed the heads, collect the hearts and keep checking by smelling until I detect tails, then back to 100ml glasses to collect a few just to make sure I'm right. I measured the alcohol and it was still at 60% when I had to stop, this seems way to early.

The first time I made this I collected down to 40% on the spirit run and it was undrinkable, nasty tails funky smell/taste, this time I stopped when tails arrived so it should be drinkable but the yeild is very bad, I have used 12 tins total and only have half a gallon of spirit, that can't be right.

I checked the leftovers in the boiler and there is no foul smell or taste.

Statistics: Posted by Maker — Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:19 pm