StillSmart

Hi everybody!

I have just found my new calling in life, I am now the proud owner of the turbo 500, why have I only just found out about this ultimate gadget?

Any who I have tried out a few of the essences out there and some are very very good, the wife loves the Blue Jewel Gin and the SS Triple Sec is a dead ringer for Cointreau.

The Jack Daniels ones however leave a lot to be desired. I have tried some Bourbon chunks that I did find pleasant enough but at £4 a bag for about 2 litres I thought there must be a better option so like a lot of you guys/gals out there have found some Jack Daniels wood smoking chips from B&Q for £6 for 1Kg - Happy days, now I'm pretty sure you must be able to get something close to JD by knowing the right proportion of chips vs time soaking in 40% abv

I understand that taste is of course subjective but the one thing that is constant is the flavour of genuine JD so therefore all the JD seekers out there must be united in the flavour they seek.

I have started with just under 2 Litres of spirit at 40% made from SS turbo yeast classic as I was told that one is better for dark spirits, 100g of JD chips for 2 weeks

I just thought rather than me spend weeks/months/years trying to get the right balance I thought I would ask you guys for your best recipe results using the same chips as I and then I could try your recipe and only improve and save myself a whole lot of time in what can be seen as the holey grail of flavours.

I look forward to sharing your knowledge in my new found hobby

This is what you want: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2034
I have been using 7 0g in 750ml of 45%.

I does not taste exactly like JD to me, but it does taste better.
Chuck

Thanks Chuck,

still learning, like what's a "sweet feed single run" I am assuming the microwaving is a short cut to the 2 week soak or is there areal benifit in heating and cooling?

Read the whole thread or there is a little more information on it on HD.. here is the linkhttp://homedistiller.org/forum/view ... =4&t=38991

an additional 380 posts or so there... MD has about 200 posts on it and about a 100 posts at AD

you should be up to speed when you get those digested a lot has been tried since i posted it the first time...

have fun.

FS

HD has a really old thread on JD chips from 4 years back of so but is mentioned in the thread at HD, also are comments from the original poster as well.

Sweet Feed is a grain and molasses product in the US (I think) intended for farm animal feed. Some people use it as a base for washes (sort of a whiskey/rum cross?). Single run means that the initial wash is run thought the still only once to produce the final spirit in order to preserve more flavour. The viability of that depends on your still.

Chuck

Thanks for all the info, just so you know what I am working with
I am simply doing a 6Kg sugar wash using a SS Turbo yeast and then carbon filtering to get as clean a free tasting spirit as possible, then trying to derive all the flavour from the barrel chips which in some way should be possible as the wood over time will have absorbed all the concentrated flavour well at least that is the theory but I am sure a lot of you will likely put me right on that matter, I don't have the time or the space to create mashes using feeds or anything else so I will always start with as clean a spirit as I can make using a plain old sugar wash run through a turbo 500 which is great for producing a 94% spirit, after being run through the activated carbon it is quite clean and ready to accept the flavour