G'day all
I have had a productive day today.
I ran the stripping runs on my heavily peated ag whiskey.
It is made from 5 kg heavy peated barley, 3 kg otter malt and 2 kg choc malt.
I did also add 2 kg of light dme.
I did not ferment on the grain.
It was about a 40lt batch and after stripping I had about 11lt of about 38% low wine.
I was very brutal with the foreshot cuts on the strip run and took about 25ml from each.
I cleaned the boiler and still and put the low wine back in with about 2 lt of distilled water to make sure.
I turned the boiler on and when it started to boil I dropped the power to about 900 - 1000w.
It took me 3 1/2 hours to do both stripping runs and just on 4 hours for the spirit run.
I got rid of the first 250ml as foreshots and then collected the heads in 300ml jars.
After about 2 lt I started collecting the heart.
I got about 2 lt of heart at a combined abv of 75%
I then collected the tails in 300ml jars until I was down to about 10%.
I still have to go through the heads and tails tomorrow and see what gets added to the heart.
During distilling all after the 3rd jar of heads smelled bloody great but will confirm tomorrow with a fresh nose.
The wet dog appeared at about 35% in the tails.
The jars are glass with a cork stopper so should breath a bit as well.
I put about 15lt of juice from the stripping run into a bucket with 5kg of sugar and will add that back to the lees in the fermenter as I want to capture some of the peat taste that was in the boiler after stripping, even the wife loved the smell..
Hopefully it all works out.
Any advice you may have will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers