My Bourbon

[Opus 27]

I\'m a dedicated Bourbon drinker and after trying most options available for Home Distillers I\'ve settled for the following.

5 Litres 45% spirit

One bottle Essencia Bourbon Essence

500 Grms of Essencia Bourbon Chunks

Leave to steep for 8-9 days (taste at 8 and decide if it wants longer)
Bags of flavour together with an excellent bouquet.
Opus 27

[Andy]

I also enjoy my Bourbon.

I use:

Still Spirits Tennessee Bourbon Chips, Still Spirits Classic Bourbon and 40% shine.

I soak 5lt spirit on chips for 1 month, strain then add the flavor.

After straining I will add 5lt spirit to the (old) chips but I will leave for 2 months the second time around.

Everybody enjoys it as much as I do (could be cos its cheap, but I think its cos its good)

[Phantom]

I\'m a dedicated Bourbon drinker and after trying most options available for Home Distillers I\'ve settled for the following.

5 Litres 45% spirit

One bottle Essencia Bourbon Essence

500 Grms of Essencia Bourbon Chunks

Leave to steep for 8-9 days (taste at 8 and decide if it wants longer)
Bags of flavour together with an excellent bouquet.

I use:

Still Spirits Tennessee Bourbon Chips, Still Spirits Classic Bourbon and 40% shine.

I soak 5lt spirit on chips for 1 month, strain then add the flavor.

After straining I will add 5lt spirit to the (old) chips but I will leave for 2 months the second time around.

Now I mainly go for the SS Classic Range tenessee sour mash flavouring (having been mainly a JD drinker prior to that).
So let me get this right and make sure I understand what it is you\'re doing.....
Opus is basically making the flavouring half the normal strength, but enhancing that with Oak chips to get the flavour ?
And Andy is using about double the amount of spirit (when taking into account that the Classic Bourbon flavouring used to come in packs to flavour up 2.25 litres of spirit befor they changed the packs to flavour 1 litre) but using the raw spirit to extract the oak flavour from the chips and then also making it up to "half" normal flavour strength ?
I wonder if it will work with the TSM flavouring, as I always more of a JD person than say, Wild Turkey or Jim Beam etc etc.....

[Andy]

I use unflavored spirit on the chips I then flavor with 2 of the 2.25 flavor packs.

So I am almost at the correct amount as per the instructions.

We still get the 2.25 packs along side the 1 litre packs

[Phantom]

I use unflavored spirit on the chips I then flavor with 2 of the 2.25 flavor packs.

So I am almost at the correct amount as per the instructions.

We still get the 2.25 packs along side the 1 litre packs

Ah, Ok I get it. You just oak the raw spirit first and then flavour it according to instructions. I\'ve tried it by making up the spirit as per instructions, then added oak. I liked it but my mate thought he preferred it without.
As I say, I\'m more of a TSM person, than a Kentucky bourbon person but I\'ll give it a go with a 1 litre pack of flavouring, but probably try it to Opus\'s quantities i.e. 100gm per litre of the oak (the Tennessee chips) and see how it comes out oaking the spirit first.....