Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

I am new to grain for spirits. I do BIAB for beers so I have a boiler.

Question is I have a 4kg of Rye Malt and also 4kg of golden promise. What is a good ratio (I want to ferment them separately) of grain to water for the mash.

Anyone?

Off the top of my head will check my spread sheet when I get home

I was going for 12.5kg for 40L (might have been 60L)

Will let you know

this book from the library section helped me .cheers hillzabilly books/Making%20pure%20corn%20whiskey%20a%20professional%20guide%20for%20amateur%20and%20micro%20distillers.pdf

hillzabilly wrote:this book from the library section helped me .cheers hillzabilly books/Making%20pure%20corn%20whiskey%20a%20professional%20guide%20for%20amateur%20and%20micro%20distillers.pdf

Looks like I'll be doing some light reading for the next few weeks for sure :-)

Clickeral wrote:Off the top of my head will check my spread sheet when I get home

I was going for 12.5kg for 40L (might have been 60L)

Will let you know

Excellent. Might make a smaller batch by the sounds of it or wait until I get more grain :-)

if you mash in with 50L of water you will yield about 42L of wort @ 1040-1048 depending on efficiency. Grind superfine for really good efficiency, not great for beer but is fine for spirits.

ekul wrote:if you mash in with 50L of water you will yield about 42L of wort @ 1040-1048 depending on efficiency. Grind superfine for really good efficiency, not great for beer but is fine for spirits.

Yeah sounds good :-)