Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Had the pleasure of doing a tour yesterday of the JD distillery in Lynchburg Tennessee.
Interestingly, every drop of Jack Daniels comes out of this distillery worldwide.
They said that they take the wash or mash and pump it into the top of the distilling column and as it goes down with gravity over several plates, they inject steam from the bottom of the column and extract, 140 proof distillate. The mash itself isn’t directly heated in this process. the mash is already hot from the fermentation, but no further heating. It’s an interesting approach. Has anyone tried that on DIY level? Unfortunately was not able to take photos from within the distilling area due to “explosion risk”, or so they say.
They claim the key to making a Tennessee whiskey is in the mellowing process, which is just filtration through charcoal. Any other process is not a true Tennessee whiskey.
I jokingly asked them when my statue would be erected due to loyalty over the years. There was nothing special available in the tasting well not anything that you can’t buy off the shelf already would’ve been nice to have some exclusive access to some top end single barrel.
Anyone else done the Jack Daniels distillery tour or similar? Love to hear your experiences. I’ve also hit up a couple of local boutique distilleries in the Atlanta area.

almost sounds like a continuous column. doing something like that is too fiddley in small scale.
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There’s a show (torrent it) called mega factories and they did the JD factory .
Yes it’s a continuous still, yes it’s almost impossible (somebody will do it now) to emulate at hobby level .

Things change, you can just buy bench top continuous still now.
Have a look at myvodkamaker.

Not into air stills , not the same thing

I can tell you about things, but I can't understand then for you.

I understand 100% what that thing is
Have you even got a still ? Do you understand what an air still is ?

The Stig wrote:There’s a show (torrent it) called mega factories and they did the JD factory .
Yes it’s a continuous still, yes it’s almost impossible (somebody will do it now) to emulate at hobby level .

I'd love to set one up but after alot of research and asking the right people basically anything under 6 inch isn't worth attempting. 8 inch minimum. The bigger the still the less a small change affects it so it's easier to dial in.

Yeah sorry, that was probably was a slightly dicky way to indicate I don't agree with your interpretation.

Todd wrote:Yeah sorry, that was probably was a slightly dicky way to indicate I don't agree with your interpretation.

You very much remind me of a guy by the same name who was banned from a few hunting websites.....

We won’t be hearing from Todd again

It’s all good Stig I don’t think there was much he could have learnt from us given his years of experience and variety of stills.

Most members come seeking knowledge and advice .
Todd just wanted to disrespect me in my own house , he can go back to Facebook now

He got his pee pee whacked for it