by chaos » Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:40 am
- thanks for the welcome... I'm really not sure what flavour is contributed by oats - others will have had more experience than me on that I'm sure. I know in brewing I have used oats to give a smooth and slick mouthfeel to stouts and ales they have a lot of protein and add body to beer. The whiskey I made was around 2.5 kg rolled oat to 2 kg maris otter barley in a 24 lt brew - I used amylase to convert the oats then the barley to convert to glucose, I included 1kg sugar, then lowans bread yeast. I ran is slowly twice through my still and 'aged' for a month on very charred french oak chips . the finished product was light malt flavour with, oaky vanilla and really smooth in the glass which I imagine may have been the oaty proteins. I'd be interested to know if that smooth effect in beer from oats caries into the distillate ...
As for the still build I used brass pan head screws to fix the dome to the saucepan lid and a fine smear of silicon. I figured the silicon i used is all over my roof and guttering which collects my rain water ..so must be relatively inert, right ?.any thoughts ?? :pray: