Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

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I still don't think you will ever top "the shortcut" :teasing-tease: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Sam. wrote:I still don't think you will ever top "the shortcut" :teasing-tease: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

shortcut wrote:Last night while running the still, I was busting for a shit.
Instead of turning her off and going up to the house I decided to snap one off into an empty beer carton.
I dumped about 300mm of fore’s on it and set it alight to get rid of the evidence.
The smell of the smoke was atrocious it filled up the whole carpark area,the shed and apparently it could be smelled up at the house. The missus had to shut all the windows.
All the ash has blown away, now I have a burnt patch of grass with a fossilised nard.

You mean this one? :laughing-rolling:

Yeah that one :laughing-rolling:

I needed 3 more jars for oaking, so headed into town to see what I could get.
Only 2 shops had 3l jars, both with the clip type lid. At one shop they were flash Italian made ones for $20 each, the other, the reject shop, $8... with me being such a tight wad, I went the cheaper option.
I opened one last night to drink & was greeted with a mixed smell of bourbon & a condensed rubber balloon type smell. After mixing a drink, yep, that rubber taste had gone right through it :angry-banghead:
The missus soaked the jar over night for herself to use, but it still stinks. Turns out it doesn’t pay to scrimp on your jars.
I just hope it’s just a one off & hasn’t happened to all 3. It’s hard to see 2 litres wasted without saying goodbye to 6 :pray:

Listo wrote:I needed 3 more jars for oaking, so headed into town to see what I could get.
Only 2 shops had 3l jars, both with the clip type lid. At one shop they were flash Italian made ones for $20 each, the other, the reject shop, $8... with me being such a tight wad, I went the cheaper option.
I opened one last night to drink & was greeted with a mixed smell of bourbon & a condensed rubber balloon type smell. After mixing a drink, yep, that rubber taste had gone right through it :angry-banghead:
The missus soaked the jar over night for herself to use, but it still stinks. Turns out it doesn’t pay to scrimp on your jars.
I just hope it’s just a one off & hasn’t happened to all 3. It’s hard to see 2 litres wasted without saying goodbye to 6 :pray:

Was the rubber seal at the top or that plastic lid still on when you put it on oak?

I’ve used cheap bottles from the reject stop but never had any problems.

It’s just the rubber ring around the outside to make the seal. I’ve had a smell of the other 2 in the shed & they smell fine, so I’ll taste test one this arvo. The other one’s pretty rank though, the missus reckoned the whole kitchen stunk this morning

Last time I bought some. I just took off the rubber and put a paper towel over it to seal it.

I also noticed the lids sometimes are made of plastic, so I don’t use any lid.

j0sh2008 wrote:Last time I bought some. I just took off the rubber and put a paper towel over it to seal it.

I also noticed the lids sometimes are made of plastic, so I don’t use any lid.

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A coffee filter and a rubber band does the job for me, if i want them a bit better sealed than that i just use some foil straight on top... not completely airtight, but I've not had any probs so far. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

So not fully sealed is ok for a few months oaking?

I’m having a drink of the next one now & it’s not bad, it must’ve been a dodgy jar.
Funny thing with this one, it’s a second generation wbabb but it’s nowh near as grainy tasting as the first generation. The first wash was a year old, smelled amazing when opening the fermenter & smelled like a cake shop when running through the still. Second generation was nearly a month old, smelled winey when opening & like a regular still when running. Is that a generation thing, or just the ridiculous time the first lot spent in the fermenters?

Listo wrote:So not fully sealed is ok for a few months oaking?

I’m having a drink of the next one now & it’s not bad, it must’ve been a dodgy jar.
Funny thing with this one, it’s a second generation wbabb but it’s nowh near as grainy tasting as the first generation. The first wash was a year old, smelled amazing when opening the fermenter & smelled like a cake shop when running through the still. Second generation was nearly a month old, smelled winey when opening & like a regular still when running. Is that a generation thing, or just the ridiculous time the first lot spent in the fermenters?

You always lose a bit to the angels, but i never have my jars sealed. I like letting them air when they age gives it a better taste, ive left jars open for 12+ months and never had any problems.

Generations always have more flavours i have found :handgestures-thumbupleft:

You may loose a little... depends on climate and where you store them to some degree.
I have mine in a big cupboard that is in a part of the house that keeps fairly cool... closest thing ive got to a celar. I leave the foil off quite a bit from time to time and ive never lost too much.

NEAR f^ck up:
Stilling done, I started pouring the hot backset into the cold toilet --and I suddenly realized what I was doing and quit.
For a minute I was waiting for a thermal C R A C K ! but it never came. Whew!

Don't do that.

So I think I should turf this lot of TPW.....
Cute little fella's but not sure I wanna drink em....

RC Al wrote:So I think I should turf this lot of TPW.....
Cute little fella's but not sure I wanna drink em....

I have had worse and still ran it. I forgot about a wash for about 6 months :angry-banghead:


Still came out fine. Just run it and if its that bad, throw it out :handgestures-thumbupleft:

RC Al wrote:So I think I should turf this lot of TPW.....
Cute little fella's but not sure I wanna drink em....

Bit hard to tell from the pic, have you got dead critters in your wash? If it’s just a few bugs I’d run it.
If it’s tadpoles though, that’s a different story. That means frogs have been rooting in it. Tip it out, you’ll never get the frog stink out no matter how much you filter it.

It was little white fungi balls
Ran a fine mesh filter from a ikea funnel around the top, stripping it now, seems fine, the DP in the middle was pretty smooth, so I'll call this lot good

Only critters I get in my washes currently are the odd silverfish - even though and fores filled airlock, they float and easily fixed

I thought early lacto :-B

Mine was near miss, freakin out for 10 days almost dumping all my stock due to strange car(yes you know what sort of car) in my street with a camera at all times of day and night. Turns out they were serving an eviction warrant on one of my neighbours, woke this morning to two marked cars and half dozen cars and trailers that proceeded to empty a house in a bit over an hour, :D nearly lost a year of work :scared-eek: