StillSmart

I apologise for jumping around a bit with comments on my Cornflake attempt but it appears to of fitted several different threads.

Hopefully I'm in the right section now.

My first distilation was pretty much a disaster.
As we had completed our build of a temperature controller I decided that I would cut it back to a usable quantity and re-run it to test our controller.

As we only had 2 litres of 60% ABV it wasn't going to be a large batch. This gave us about 8 litres.

I won't go into the ins and outs of the controller here I'll do that elsewhere.

We took the product of in 100 ml collections tasting and smelling each one. There were a total of 16 cuts when we hit 35% ABV. This was the point we shut down, the last collection not tasting to good. I should add we didn't pick any significant foreshots as this had been run before.

The first 300 ml and the last 100 ml were discounted and the middle 1200 ml was bought togethr for our final blend, this was at 60% ABV.

Taste was pretty good for a new spirit. It's now sitting on 10 grams of toasted french oak and we'll see how it develops.

Cornflake (Kellogs) recipe was Odins.

Hope there something of interest in this post.

Opus

Cheers for that Opus, am sure there is something I can take from your experience.

Following on from our first attemt at a Cornflake mash we now have a second batch fermenting.

This one is again using Odins recipe with 2 Kg of flakes in 44 litres. This time though we have thrown in one packet of Ryvita crisp breads.

It's been fermenting for a week now and is still quite active so possibly going to come down drier than the first batch.

Opus

Opus 27 wrote:.......This time though we have thrown in one packet of Ryvita crisp breads......

Of course, a Breakfast Spirit Now why didn't I think off that. This is going to be huge

AM

The Cornflake/rivita wash still fermenting.
Into 9 days now, much longer than just Cornflake wash.

Opus