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After some disappointment trying to find a whiskey recipe. I thought would have a go myself.

This is not a true distilled whiskey, but a good wheat neutral with infused flavours.

It is also a work in progress!! I have made it twice now. both times it has come out very good - . Some might say too good...... it is very drinkable !!



5 LITRE Recipe
5L 50% Wheat Wash spirit
80 g American White oak dominoes
60 g French oak Domino's
1 teaspoon of honey
1 fresh vanilla pod (sliced & scraped)
50g crystal malt (consider 25g )
10 peppercorns (consider crushing)

Method
Add everything to a jar with a tap at the bottom. Kilner 5l is ideal.
Leave the lid open - and by that I mean on the catch but not nipped up.

After 2 weeks. Raise the jar, so that a demijohn can be under the tap.
Use the bottom tap to gently trickle the spirit through a paper filter.
After you have gently filtered as much as you can, tip the remaining contents into a seive and recover vanilla & oak.
Thoroughly rinse the vanilla and oak in tap water and then return to the clean Kilner jar along with the contents of the DJ.
After 4 weeks. Filter again, this time leaving it in the Demi John.

Mash, have decided to have a go at this with
the wheat wash i am running next week.
Any thoughts or improvements that I should
use ??

Nothing springs to mind. Works well.

Ok will keep posted

I love honey whiskey. Irish Mist is a particular favourite.

I'm a bit surprised at only 1 teaspoon of honey for 5L of spirit. Does that keep the honey very subtle or does it come through a lot with that amount?

The vanilla and the honey sort of work together
its very nice. I aged some in my oak bottles.
But it needs time on wood.

You cannae fake a whisky, I have expended time and money on the quest.
It is easier to fake a "whisky liquer"
Anavrin wanted to know how I made my "Orange" whisky.
This is just my take on someone elses version of Southern Comfort,posted here somewhere.

My last was simply 8.5 litres of 45% neutral. 24 quartered peaches, 3 quartered Oranges and two quartered lemons. All whole
A few Cinnamon sticks and Cardamom pods.
Steeped for a couple of weeks,
Filtered, sweetened to taste, a little 92% added back to keep it on strength.
It is a play it as you wish recipe.
And I have just run out of the last bottled.
The next batch is ready to filter tomorrow......
Lifes a bitch, and then you die.....

Robert.

The pedant in me feels bound to point out that you quartered your fruit and then said it was all whole.

Sounds lovely and one I will try.

Point taken that these are whiskey liquers and not true whiskeys.

I'm still surprised and would be glad of clarification at only 1 teaspoon of honey in 5 litres of spirit? I really expected more to be needed?

gaza the instructor wrote:The vanilla and the honey sort of work together
its very nice. I aged some in my oak bottles.
But it needs time on wood.

This is a good answer. You can always add a bit more honey if you like.

I am of the opinion it is balanced not overtly sweet.

Thanks Mash and I like your recipe

Curmudgeon wrote:The pedant in me feels bound to point out that you quartered your fruit and then said it was all whole.

Sounds lovely and one I will try.

Point taken that these are whiskey liquers and not true whiskeys.

I'm still surprised and would be glad of clarification at only 1 teaspoon of honey in 5 litres of spirit? I really expected more to be needed?

I admire a pedant, as on occassion I can be one myself .
What I meant is there was no silly peel, or zesting, the whole fruit, quartered.

And just to say that a teaspoon of honey or maple syrup can make quite a difference to any distillate.

Robert.

Wow. This stuff is rather good.
Just tried a drop. OH yes

Always good to see a happy player.

Robert.