StillSmart

Frank all this has been discussed in the 300 or so replies at HD no one have blown up yet and the water heat method was discussed several times...

The microwave drives moisture and heats up the chips, staves or domino's differently than heated it externally... i am sure you will get results heating the jar but not the same as nuking it.. give it a go or just read the HD data also data at AD and here ..

heating it up externally, putting the sealing ring and cap in place will create the vacuum etc.



FS

I was scared spitless when I first read of this. But Jarhead's experiments on MD convinced me to give it a go. Not only did I not burn down the wife's new kitchen, but I got a damn fine result. Maybe too fine as the bottle did not come home with me from my mates.

Chuck

FRUIT NUKINS THE RECIPE

Wv_cooker shared this recipe: for FRUIT NUKINS
The recipe is simple he says for making Blackberry, Strawberry and Cherry Likker

Take a quart jar, fill the jar 2/3 with fruit, added 1/2 cup sugar, filled the jar with 50% ABV Vodka that I already had setting around nuked for 2 - 1 minute increments as fruit heats to a boil rather rapidly. Let set to cool then repeat for a second nuking, let cool and drink to your liking.
The Vodka was Birdwatchers That I had diluted to 50% ABV.

1 shot of Blackberry mixed with 1 shot of JD in an 8 oz. glass filled the rest of the way with Pepsi and I am in heaven every evening before bedtime.


FS here:
I Thought a few of you guys might like to play with something other than your wood..

FS

Thanks FS

This sounds interesting.

I have 5 litres of white cornflakes "whisky" sat around waiting for me to decide what to do with it.

Looks like it may be headed for the microwave with some fruit. I may even try an apple pie style recipe in the microwave.

This experimenting is fun!

scale it down and try a small batch maybe,,,, he was using a birdwatcher's neutral... see if the cornflake gives it a taste profile that's acceptable prior to making a big batch...

FS

I feel sorry for all you guys out there who don't have a wife as great as mine

SWIMVF (She Who I Make Vodka For) was out visiting a local flea market yesterday and came across a 20l 800w microwave for €25.

I just finished testing it and it works perfectly. No bells or whistles and it's an old manual control model but it can take 4 of my Kilner preserve jars that I use for nuking spirits it's now installed in my workshop so I won't have to keep bringing hot jars in and out of the kitchen

AM

Aidanmac make her some Fruit Nukins.... use fresh fruit and sugar of your choice... put a smile on her face...

Heard about a new one Peach day before yesterday have not heard the results from it yet but if its as good as the blueberry, blackberry, or cherry it will be really good...

btw the peach one was done with canned half peaches.. so reduce the sugar or sweeten it to taste...

aidanmac wrote:I feel sorry for all you guys out there who don't have a wife as great as mine
AM

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My wife won't have a microwave anywhere near the house. I am thinking of sneaking a bottle round to Mum's. But she is still great and came in today with some new corks - I did not know I was running out, but she does.

I read somewhere that this method could be used to good effect on neutral spirit.

Last week I nuked a litre of neutral spirit and left it for a few days with a lid on but I can't detect any difference in the 'before' and 'after'. Maybe it's down to my careful clean cuts.

AM

If your cuts are good not sure what effect it will have If you nuke it and let it cool with an open lid and the temp is above 170 it will let any fores or heads remaining in the product... release from the base spirit...

The people who are nuking pure neutral are doing it several cycles, this i have not done to any great extent... nuke, vacuum and then repeat...

I have removed some fores from true heads and made it passable to use in mixed drinks.... but this was only on one or two occasions and i was just seeing if it would make the fores leave and take the edge off the heads... did smooth it out substantially.

FS

Son is having a MEMORIAL Day Party at his house... sent a few things... corn likker, sweet feed simi neutral... and ....


NUked Fire Piss is a good recipe.... follow it as PP posted it nuke it till you have a hotter than hell cinnamon solution.... cut it with distilled and sugar and fire up the crowd.... nuked it 4 or 5 times ... added sugar to taste and damn hot and really really tasty... sent it off with a couple cinn sticks in the jar...

edit: oops just realized i sent this out at 150 proof no wonder it was so friggin good hot as f U K gotta remember to not taste and mix....


Made Blueberry FRUIT NUKENS 12oz of blueberries 50aby 1/2 cup of white sugar... nuked 4 times added a little more sugar to taste AWESOME

PP .... WV cooker

thank you

Most recent batch of nuked spirits has just been bottled. While getting everything ready for this batch I decided to do a little experiment to see what vol of JD Chips to alcohol worked best for me.

I used three 1l Kilner Preserve jars. These jars are numbered 18,19 and 20 in the pic below and they got 100g, 125g and 150g of JD BBQ Chips respectively to see what the best outcome was. Each jar was then filled to the neck of the jar with neutral alcohol at 62.5% ABV.

After two cycles the jars were allowed to return to room temp and the vacuum released. I took this pic so you can see the different results.


As you can see there is quite a difference in the colour. You'll have to take my word on the flavour and mouthfeel. The jar with 125g worked best in terms of drinkability.

End result was that 125g of JD BBQ Chips in a 1l jar topped up with approx 625ml of neutral alcohol at 62.5%ABV, leaving approx 1 inch of headspace in the jar, yielded 750ml of drinking strength, lovely tasting, Sour Mash type Whisky overnight

Ya just have to love it

FullySilenced, you're my newest hero

AM

Peach Nukin's

12oz of frozen sliced peaches

1 quart jar

40 to 62.5 neutral depends on what you want of have on hand... 50 abv for me is my choice

1/2 cup of sugar up to 1/2 cup more added to taste after the nukin

2 nuke cycles

cool and DRINK!

its Peachy Keen....

aidanmac wrote:Quick follow up on the 72%ABV spirit that I microwaved and which later became cloudy:

This morning I went to my workshop where I had left the nuked spirits and found the jar like this..


Filtering with cotton wool and wine filter paper removed the sediment that had settled out from the spirit and left if crystal clear again. Surprisingly, the flavour and mouthfeel have not suffered at all - go figure!

From this I am now convinced that the original spirit strength was too high to put through the process and would recommend no higher ABV than 62.5% as also recommended by pintoshine on MD and other forums.

Lesson learned

AM

In my latest post on this subject, on June 3, I showed a pic of three jars of White at 62.5% that had been nuked with different amounts of JD chunks and the finished products were clean and clear after filtering off the wood.

On Wednesday morning I checked on the jars again and all three had again become cloudy with a sediment in the bottom of the jars.

It had been suggested to me, somewhere, that this may have been due to dissolved solids in the neutral that precipitated after nuking so I nuked a new jar of the White from the same batch to test this theory.

I put it through exactly the same process as the three jars in the pics and no sediment, no precipitation of any kind and the White is still as crystal as it was when it went in.

For this reason I am at a loss to understand why this is happening other than to conclude that it must be down to something from the JD Chunks reacting to the nuking process.

The JD chunks used were from different bags in the two cases. As Ireland is such a small market, it is conceivable that the actual chunks I used could have come from the same imported batch of bags and therefore the same batch of barrels but that may be clutching at straws.

If anyone has a more plausible explanation I'd love to hear it and maybe find how to avoid this happening again

AM

Aidan,

This may be dragging the thread Off Topic but it is in response to your post.

I have become disillusioned with Whisky Barrel Chunks, admittedly mine are not JD but my reservations and concerns are still applicable. I have used Whisky Barrel, Barbeque Wood Chips from M&S I have had good results, but I have also had two batches of spirits that have ended up with a strange bitter taste / smell. Like you, I put it down to the Oak Chips and poured the batches down the drain.

When you think about it, both the M&S and the JD chips are sold “fit for purpose” the purpose that they are sold for is burning, with no guarantees that they are fit for anything else.

When I was deliberating what to do with the strange tasting batches I started thinking about what it could be, what could have been on the barrels that ended up in my demijohns?. And the answer was “just about anything”.

Imagine a load of used barrels stored in the open with paint / ink markings, dogs walking past and cocking their legs, are they sprayed with insecticide?, fungicide? what is used to keep the rats away?

I am prepared to accept that my paranoia tablets do no seem to be working, but I decided that my Oak Chlps will end up on the bar-b-que where they belong and I will look for other sources of oak that have a better pedigree.

Toodlepip