Soap taste

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Re: Soap taste

Postby db1979 » Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:54 pm

Perhaps time on oak will help. But like woodsy said, maybe dominoes in glass instead of your barrel.
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Re: Soap taste

Postby EziTasting » Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:25 pm

scythe wrote:...what about cold filtering


This could be a really stoopid kwestion, but what is ‘Cold Filtering’ or how do you do it?
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Re: Soap taste

Postby Sugardaddy » Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:37 am

Is the soapy bourbon in your good competition barrel?? Would not want to risk ruining it with contamination that you can not get out. Could always ditch the product and fill barrel with water as worst case scenario while you are stillin overtime to generate stocks back up. :shifty:
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Re: Soap taste

Postby Sam. » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:04 am

EziTasting wrote:
scythe wrote:...what about cold filtering


This could be a really stoopid kwestion, but what is ‘Cold Filtering’ or how do you do it?


Chill the spirit down to about 2 degrees and run it through a micron filter, gets rid of chill haze :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Soap taste

Postby warramungas » Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:43 pm

Is it a new barrel? I've had that before and it came from a new barrel. Not sure why.
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Re: Soap taste

Postby bluc » Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:57 pm

Yea new barrel..
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Re: Soap taste

Postby warramungas » Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:11 pm

I dont like to throw stuff away and I think I redistilled mine. Mine was very very soapy and over oaked. Too long in a spanking new 5 liter oak (cant remember which one) barrel. Don't think it was charred. But it was 15+ years ago and my knowledge of the dark arts back then was pretty rudimentary with the internet still in its infancy, or at least I wasn't that interested in it for anything other than playing the odd game. Dial up modems were the pits.
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Re: Soap taste

Postby prawnz » Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:45 am

Interesting read .

If it is not what you like could you not just run it thru a reflux column and turn it into neutral ?
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Re: Soap taste

Postby YarraRanges » Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:06 am

I reckon db1979 is on to it.
I tried making some calvados from cider a few years ago. Out of the still and diluted to 40% drinking strength it tasted like soap. Damned horrible. What the heck, I put it with French oak dominoes and forgot about it. 8 months later I found the flagons at the back of a cupboard and diluted back from 65% to 40%. I waited 24 hours for the craziness to subside and wow! No soapiness, a beautiful drink that matched or was better anything you could buy.
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Re: Soap taste

Postby bluc » Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:31 pm

I thought I would leave it in barrel bit longer. Trying right now and soapyness is giving way to a very nice whiskey flavour. I have not done anything to it. :D
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Re: Soap taste

Postby EziTasting » Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:59 pm

Noice!
Allways good when it goes right!
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Re: Soap taste

Postby bluc » Sat Jan 06, 2018 3:35 pm

Can definately put any doubt to rest. The soapiness has almost completely gone and it now has the strongest "taste" of bourbon of anything I have made :D
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Re: Soap taste

Postby db1979 » Sat Jan 06, 2018 5:34 pm

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Re: Soap taste

Postby ThePaterPiper » Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:20 pm

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Re: Soap taste

Postby wynnum1 » Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:37 am

Aldehyde chemicals could that be what your tasting .

Dislike of coriander has long been thought to be a partly inherited trait and not just an artefact of cultural practices and exposure to the herb. ... One of those genes, OR6A2, encodes a receptor that is highly sensitive to aldehyde chemicals, which contribute to the flavour of coriander.
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