Still working through Vodka options

[Wellsy]

Still was on well before dawn mate lol
I set it all up last night and was awake early so put it all on at 4:30

[Wellsy]

Time to sit back and enjoy some BWKO before falling asleep on the couch

[The Stig]

Still was on well before dawn mate lol
I set it all up last night and was awake early so put it all on at 4:30

I do the same :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[WhiskeySour]

I did fill my boiler up last night, but didn't get my arse into gear this morning so power didn't go on until 8am. Still drawing out the tails now :angry-banghead:

[The Stig]

You to upgrade from 2” to a 4” and save some time

[WhiskeySour]

Funny you should say that. I'm upgrading to a shotgun condenser, just gotta solder the end plates on. So I was thinking I don't really have any other choice but to build a bubbler now...

[hgwells]

Funny you should say that. I'm upgrading to a shotgun condenser, just gotta solder the end plates on. So I was thinking I don't really have any other choice but to build a bubbler now...

Do it. :handgestures-thumbupleft: You won’t regret going to a 4 inch column!

[RuddyCrazy]

Ran my 4" pot still today about 30 litres and just ran the BD burner on 3 psi just under an hour to fores and 1-1/4 hours to 20% 4 litres in total :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[Wellsy]

That’s just showing off Bryan :teasing-neener:
Lol

[Wellsy]

I now have 12 litres of hearts @ 75% to run through for the third distillation

[The Stig]

How does it taste at this second stage ?

[Wellsy]

Tastes really good mate.

Little to no flavour, I suspect the slight wheatiness will develop over time.

I made the cuts so that I had a nice mouth feel and a lovely warmth that starts in the stomach and flows upwards.

[Wellsy]

OK Guys final Numbers are in and after heavy cuts I ended up with 7.5 litres at 80%.

Nice clean Vodka with little to no taste at all. WBAB is an amazing wash producing a good Vodka from a Pot still

I have said it before and I will say it again [color=#0000BF]THANKYOU SO MUCH[/color] to all the guys who suggested and encouraged me down this path.

[Tesla101]

Well done Wellsy. What drinking strength ABV are you going to dilute to?

[Wellsy]

I will run it back to 40% for drinking :)

[Professor Green]

Good to hear your pot stilled vodka quest ended in success Wellsy.

WBAB makes a cracking whisky too.

[Wellsy]

I might just have to give that a go as well.

I have been fermenting the ngw but for some reason mine always takes weeks to ferment out. The WBAB is so cheap and easy, I did not even bother to cook the wheat bix I just tipped everything in and stirred it with a pain stirrer.

I am going to do some AG whiskeys next then will try the WBAB with generations as a whiskey.

So many recipes so little time :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[Tesla101]

40% abv is fine. Just to note that it's OK to dilute it down to 35-37% as well, which will dilute any flavour a bit more. Some of the premium vodkas do this - it's not just to create a bigger yield.

I've been doing weet-bix washes for months now. For a 25L wash I'll take 5L of hot backset from a stripping run and pour it in a fermenter with 5kg of sugar, 8 crushed weet-bix, 1/2 tsp DAP, 1 tsp of bicarb of soda and 1 multi-vitamin tablet. Whiz it up with a stick mixer and then top up to 25L with cold water then pitch 25g of bakers yeast. I use this for neutral for my gin.

No need to cook the weet-bix. Quick and easy. For a first gen just double the weet-bix. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[RuddyCrazy]

Wellsy ditch the breakfast cereals and get into the AG mate as AG is poles apart in tasting, my first single malt after aging 7 months is outstanding and everyone that has tasted it have said it's the best thing they have tasted in a long time. My mate at the bottleshop said after his boss tasted it they would have to open a $600 bottle of whisky to come close to the flavour. Now this batch was done in my 4" bubbler and I had a bit left over so it was stripped in my 2" pot still and a spirit run in it too.

To say the bubbler version is nice when a mate tried the pot still version he said Bryan you have hit the nail on the head here as it's way better than the bubbler version.

So go grab some barely and get malting mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: , now you can also do generations too and put some fine milled corn in for the second generation and add some other grains for the third etc. Strip every ferment then do a blended spirit run and put it down at 65% on French Oak for 6-12 months. I'm sure you will agree it is way better than using breakfast cereals.

Cheers Bryan

[Wellsy]

40% abv is fine. Just to note that it's OK to dilute it down to 35-37% as well, which will dilute any flavour a bit more. Some of the premium vodkas do this - it's not just to create a bigger yield.

I've been doing weet-bix washes for months now. For a 25L wash I'll take 5L of hot backset from a stripping run and pour it in a fermenter with 5kg of sugar, 8 crushed weet-bix, 1/2 tsp DAP, 1 tsp of bicarb of soda and 1 multi-vitamin tablet. Whiz it up with a stick mixer and then top up to 25L with cold water then pitch 25g of bakers yeast. I use this for neutral for my gin.

No need to cook the weet-bix. Quick and easy. For a first gen just double the weet-bix. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Thanks Tesla, I am struggling to understand why you do generations on a neutral. I thought the whole purpose of generations is to build flavour but with a neutral we don’t want flavour. What have I misunderstood ?