whisky all grain

[orcy]

50 bucks sounds a bit expensive for 50L of wash. Marris is only 50 bucks a bag, and that should do nearly 100L of wash i would have thought.

[markus]

I pay $80 a bag :handgestures-thumbdown:

[orcy]

Is it simpsons? Im sure the last bag i got at the kk was between 50 and 60. Its down around 40 to 45 if you are buying lots of bags.

[bluc]

Brew is still on 1.010 its done. Stripping now

[bluc]

Plenty smokiness and choc early on the strip bit like a choc flavoured cigar :D

[bluc]

Running on half power foaming up :twisted: even with anti foam..

[ThePaterPiper]

What causes the foaming?

[bluc]

Not sure if its unfermentable sugar or proteins. Both will do it apparently.. i reakon its going to be a nice drop :D

[ThePaterPiper]

I hope so bluc. It is worth it. Although the NGW is nice, the flavour that has come through in ours is amazing. I wish I had gone AG when I was doing beers. We have only had 30odd liters in our 50l keg so I don’t think we would notice even iff it did foam, and even then, it would end up in the thumper I suppose

[ThePaterPiper]

Slightly off topic, but we plan to run our 100% peated feints with our gen 3 wash this weekend. Looking forward to seeing if any peate comes across from that.

[orcy]

I had enormous foaming problems with my first go. I even let it clear for a few days in the fermenter and added antifoam. I did usea stillspirits whisky yeast, which i never trust but was the best i could get for a test run. By comparison, my rum barely foamed at all.

[ThePaterPiper]

Are you running a bubbler and see it in the sight glasses? Or does it foam right out of your pc

[bluc]

My rum always pukes...sometimes worse than others. I have stripped a batch clear here and there but never done a clear spirit run..

[bluc]

Wondering with all grain and peated grain, should i strip down to lower abv or is 20% ok?

[bluc]

First strip i have done that i reakon would be drinkable as is. (not that i would).

[bluc]

Got down to 20% and the smokiness had faded a fair bit so called it a day almost 9l low wines.. :scared-eek:

[markus]

Yeah I go to 20% in a pot still. That’s where all the good dirty tail oils are :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[bluc]

On spirit run how low should i be collecting? I am down to 55 and it still has a nice real rich cigar taste. Cant taste any mankiness..

[bluc]

Next jar started at 50 and dropped to 39 over the150ml collected. Well and truly tails. Seems like a great run :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[ThePaterPiper]

That’s pretty much exactly what happened with ours bluc. It’s going along merrily then the arse falls out and it was over. :handgestures-thumbupleft: