Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

dans.brew wrote:

Jim-Bob-shine wrote:Accidentally bought 5 kilos of citric acid online instead of 1kg

Well you wont be running out of it anytime soon.
I suppose its not all bad in current circumstances with lots of ingredients being on the short side. :laughing-rolling:

What did you pay because there is a difference in price to buying at supermarket in small quantity.

Paid $35 for 5kg delivered

Do you think my yeast is active?

Whiskey throttled the hilux through the shed and the chook run :obscene-drinkingdrunk:

Were any chooks hurt??

about a dozen or so, the survivors didnt lay well for years

:laughing-rolling:

the first shed was a old hay shed, empty at the time but the way the tin molded to the hilix, it looked like a mad max machine

8-} :laughing-rolling:

I called the office today to organise to pick up my ergo chair to use at home (too tight to buy one)
Left a message for my brand new boss to let her know.
In the meantime the wife had called home but had to go before finishing the call.
Not 3 min later the home phone rang and I picked it up and said “hey sexy” :angry-banghead:

:laughing-rolling:

Well this isn't a F/U but it is something that I use to prevent them!!

I posted this excel file a few years back and it is what I use to keep track of ferments & runs. If something turns out really good, I can repeat it instead of trying to remember what the hell did I 4 months or 2 years earlier, or if it turned out shitty, what NOT to do again!! Really handy if you like to experiment.

Sheet 1 is to keep track of the ferment
Sheet 2 is to keep track of the run(s)

I print sheet 1 on the front and sheet 2 on the back and keep them in a binder to look back on if I want to try something again.

There is a ton of spots to write shit in that you may never use but there if you need it. Feel free to modify for your needs!! You may need to modify margins when you print it to get your holes in the right spot when you 3 hole punch it!!

CH3CH2OH wrote:Well this isn't a F/U but it is something that I use to prevent them!!

I posted this excel file a few years back and it is what I use to keep track of ferments & runs. If something turns out really good, I can repeat it instead of trying to remember what the hell did I 4 months or 2 years earlier, or if it turned out shitty, what NOT to do again!! Really handy if you like to experiment.

Sheet 1 is to keep track of the ferment
Sheet 2 is to keep track of the run(s)

I print sheet 1 on the front and sheet 2 on the back and keep them in a binder to look back on if I want to try something again.

There is a ton of spots to write shit in that you may never use but there if you need it. Feel free to modify for your needs!! You may need to modify margins when you print it to get your holes in the right spot when you 3 hole punch it!!

FERMENT AND RUN.xlsx

Nice distilling logs CH3CH2OH.

You can't control what you don't measure...

Did I ever tell the story about my dog and a full 120L trashcan on wheels full of rum wash?


It was in my basement, I threw a tennis ball for my 47-ish kilo dog to fetch, it ended up next to the trashcan, pissed off wife, mopping sticky shit for hours....etc.... :angry-banghead:

In a similar way, mine is slippery hands and glass fermenters... both empty and full. You'd think I would have learned after the first time.

Another was putting a 1'' concentric reducer above the vapour take-off in my 2'' VM (to help take-off rate and center reflux), which was promptly followed by flooding the top of the column and having 95% ethanol coming out the top... I use gas heating BTW. :think:

The second one was an interesting fix: I drilled a couple of holes in the sides of the reducer to allow some vapour movement and prevent a vapour plug from keeping all the reflux above the reducer. It's been working great for years, but it could have been a very expensive mistake.

My fuckup of the day, confusing BSP, Imperial and Metric sizes ending up ordering 1/2" Male to 1/2" compression, when what I really needed was 1/4" BSPP to 1/2" compression.
Then found out 1/4" BSP actual diameter is 1/2".

:angry-banghead: :angry-banghead: :angry-banghead: :text-imwithstupid:

Getting pretty good at closing the drainage valve these days.... but damned if I am getting any better at connecting the cooling water hose before turning on the pump! Flooding the DogHouse is not good when your electrics are on the floor... :angry-banghead:

Had a new fermenter with 27L of wash racked and clearing in the garage on a stainless steel bench. Bench has a 50mm hole in it to pass a power cord through. Under the bench are two cupboards with my youngest daughters craft stuff.
Unbeknown to me the fermenter plug was not done up tight and 10L of wash slowly leaked out and soaked 90% of her stuff.
She doesn’t like the smell at the best of times and now it’s all through her stuff.
Just spent the last three hours cleaning it all up and I’m well and truly in the dog house.

Have cut and glued a rubber patch over the hole so it will never happen again!!!!

i bought 3 x 30l MJ fermenters at the same time from the same shop.
i figured that i could just fit all 3 in the 'hot-fridge' if i used grommits, tubing and plastic bottle bubblers instead of the usual airlocks.
i checked the bung hole on the 1st fermenter, it was threaded but required drilling out if a tap was needed.
no worries, i was planning on racking off with a syphon anyway.
i'm in the kitchen, done the first 2 FFV's, now doing the 3rd FFV, sugar in the fermenter, pouring boiling water in to dissolve etc.
for some reason, the 3rd fermenter had the bung drilled out, with no bung.
didn't really realise what a sticky mess you get with partially dissolved sugar solution.
luckily, :roll: i had already removed the rug by the kitchen sink (due to a previous experience with an open fermenter tap).
i nearly got away with it, but SWMBO noticed that all the supply of kitchen roll was gone and the kitchen floor was way too clean.
but that's what an hour of mopping does.

Remember to close the drain valve on your boiler BEFORE you start racking wash into it...!
Wet feet