Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hi All,
I have been reading the forum for a couple of months now and decided to join up. I have been brewing all grain beer for a couple of years and I am currently working through (drinking) batch #83. A mate of mine purchased an Air Still, and I offered to run it for him (he has gone away for 9 months), to give me a start in the the hobby and like brewing, I was hooked instantly.

I am now planning to build a pot still that I can add to my 40L electric brew kettle. :D

I have been making the WeetBix wash, and I have been thinking about throwing in some of the spent grains from a beer mash. I think this would sour the wash and add more grain flavors, what do you think?

Adam.

Welcome Adam :handgestures-thumbupleft:
This hobby hooks you in very quickly... before you know it you are trying heaps of new recipes.
83 batchs of beer in a couple years is a pretty good effort!
Using some òf the spent grain should work good i would think... one of the mentors might know more than me though.

Welcome Adam.

Your all grain brewing skills will come in might handy for whiskies that's for sure.

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

Hi Dans & Professor,
Yes whiskey is where it is at for me at the moment. I am just doing a spirit run now from my first mash using 100% Gladfield distillers malt. I am interested in what flavours I am going to get before I start making recipies like I do with beer.

Welcome Mate, you can make a tasty sugarhead whiskey with spent grain, I use a 60L fermenter chuck 4kg or so of the grain into it, dissolve 4kg of sugar with 5l of hot backset, add 20L good quality water then the sugar/backset mix. I use new yeast but you could reuse the lees from the AG. This makes a acceptable mixer to drink while waiting for the AG to age. Interested to hear how the gladfeild malt turns out, Im going to start using it soon. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Hi mate, welcome :greetings-waveyellow:

Sounds like your off to a solid start :handgestures-thumbupleft: