From beer to bourbon (and rum!)
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 9:42 pm
Greetings,
I have been an all grain beer brewer for many years. I am pretty comfortable with water treatment, mashing times and temps and so on, but now I need to get my head around volumes (how many post-fermentation litres of wash/beer/whatever will result in X litres of top quality final product etc etc) and a whole new world of jargon and weird terms.
I am looking to convert a 50L keg into a pot still. I am pretty useless on the tools, but luckily have friends who can help (other brewers who have helped me with my exiting brewery so far). I'm not sure whether to try and do a build/design from scratch or to just do the boiler/keg conversion (seems straightforward enough to add a lid from a second keg that is cut to have some overlap and bolts onto the keg) and buy the pot-still attachment that goes onto the keg coupler.
Anyway, I'm excited by the new possibilities and look forward to trawling through this site.
If anyone can recommend any really good introductory-intermediate books, please feel free to do so. My goals over the next few years are to make some decent (forgive my technical naming errors) Kentucky style bourbon whiskey, rum, and finally single malt (in that order).
Cheers.
I have been an all grain beer brewer for many years. I am pretty comfortable with water treatment, mashing times and temps and so on, but now I need to get my head around volumes (how many post-fermentation litres of wash/beer/whatever will result in X litres of top quality final product etc etc) and a whole new world of jargon and weird terms.
I am looking to convert a 50L keg into a pot still. I am pretty useless on the tools, but luckily have friends who can help (other brewers who have helped me with my exiting brewery so far). I'm not sure whether to try and do a build/design from scratch or to just do the boiler/keg conversion (seems straightforward enough to add a lid from a second keg that is cut to have some overlap and bolts onto the keg) and buy the pot-still attachment that goes onto the keg coupler.
Anyway, I'm excited by the new possibilities and look forward to trawling through this site.
If anyone can recommend any really good introductory-intermediate books, please feel free to do so. My goals over the next few years are to make some decent (forgive my technical naming errors) Kentucky style bourbon whiskey, rum, and finally single malt (in that order).
Cheers.