Hi all.. I've been hitting this forum up with some newbie posts of late, more or less trying to figure out costs/time involved in distilling.
Given i'm interested in Rum/Whiskey, I've been browsing the recipes on here and have noticed that almost all of them recommend doing a spirit run on the 4th or 5th gen.
What exactly does this mean in terms of;
- I'm assuming I complete a ferment and then do a stripping run. What do I keep from this and where does it go?
- on the 2nd gen. Is this another stripping run? If so, what gets kept here and is there anything that can be turned into drinkable product, or does it all go into the next gen?
- 3rd gen, as above
- 4th gen, I'm assuming I do a spirit run here. How much product would I generally have to work with assuming I'm using a 50L still and the multiple ferments?
I'm basically trying to figure out if there's anything left to turn into a drinkable product at each of the stages, or whether it's basically an investment of 3 ferments + 3 stripping runs, to finally get 1 spirit run. Then what can I expect out of that run, ie. the standard 10% of total volume as drinkable product, or higher given the graduale build up of the ferments.