Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Just mashed in my first attempt at a grain whiskey.
Have 3kg pale malt and 3kg manuka smoked malt. Will add 1kg raw sugar to bring OG to 1.070.
Will add dry enzyme and ferment with Nottingham.
Stripping run then do a second batch and strip that then a final spirit run.
Hoping the smokiness carries over into the spirit.

Update on this one.
First wash has been down 6 days and gone from 1.076 to 1.011. Nottingham is a beast.
It’s still going and I hope it will get down to maybe 1.003ish to give me 9.5%.
I’ve just mashed in the second batch so that I have two to strip and make a final spirit run.
The wash smells extremely smoky and the taste from the fermenter is pure ashtray so hopeful at this stage.

Sounds very promising mate. Keep us updated with your final results of flavour on your spirit run. What still will you be using?

At this stage mate unfortunately it’s just the 2” Keggomax. I’ll be running with no reflux but 4 x 4” rolls of copper packing in the vapour path.
I previously rushed in to the hobby, bought a 5* Neutraliser 4 plate bubbler and didn’t make anything I was happy with, little one came along and I sold it. Wish I hadn’t now!lol. But plan to have a crack at all grain with this still, see if I can make anything I am somewhat happy with and if I can start working back up to a better setup. Main thing I won’t be doing this time is rushing anything.
I’m enjoying the all grain brewing of beer so figured I may as well see how it goes for whisky :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Update time ...
Ran my first strip yesterday. Had already cubed the second batch so poured that straight on to the yeast cake once the first wash was on the boiler. Started fermenting pretty hard after a few hours :handgestures-thumbupleft:
The strip run went great. 4.7L at 35% after I ran down to 10% and under 3 hours from start to clean up.

Running sheet from the spirit run.
Lines on the side indicate projected cuts based on initial smell during run.
Actual cuts included half jar from 6 and half jars from 14 and 15. I blended all of this the following day. I have about 1.7L of 62% on American oak dominoes and 2 x 300ml jars with American and French oak chips because I’m impatient to get some tried. Will remove the chips after about two weeks of thermal cycling and see what it’s like.

Nice work, looking to try something similar this year.

quidjibo wrote:Nice work, looking to try something similar this year.

I’ll let you know how it turns out ... I have probably taken a bit too much tails so hoping some time and wood will smooth it out. I was really conscious of getting the smoky flavours and may have gone a bit far but we will see.
Doing a WBAB vodka next and then another all grain whisky. Single malt this time with 14kg of Golden Promise.