warramungas wrote:I'm not sure how other guys do it but with my UJ I syphon off all the liquid I can (I do 100 liter washes) into the boiler without stirring up the yeast or grain bed. That comes later.
When I've got all the liquid I can I dig down one side to the bottom of the barrel. I have long arms but you may need a tool to do that. When I'm at the bottom i stick my auto syphon in the hole and start sucking up anything else that I can. I don't get every drop and i usually only do this when I want to empty the barre or refresh the grain bed significantly. When I'm going to refill it i don't bother trying to get it all and only go down to the top of the grain bed.
Stevejb wrote:Hey all - it seems I am doing something wrong but I'm not sure what.
I halved all the ingredients in Zak's recipe except for the lemon juice, which I substituted with citric acid for a pH of 6.
EziTasting wrote:Trick I was told was to start testing in the middle because you have a greater chance that it is Hearts!
I've always had it easy finding Tails, but the only way I found heads was in the taste (prickly on my tongue - thats how I describe it). As time goes on, you'll learn to smell the heads - it'll get easier and theres no substitute for experience! So you'll just have to suffer thru it by doing lots of washes... :happy-partydance:
When you work your way out from the centre, you'll pick up on the 'Nail-polish' remover smell and thats your heads or the beginning of! Neither Heads nor Tails are just that (as in just the components of heads, then suddenly it switched to hearts, and then later on it suddenly switches to tails) they "smear" into the next section. Tails have been described as "wet-dog' or 'wet-cardboard' neither of which worked for me. I smelled wet-dog once (don't recall which recipe) but I find tails to be smelling like the wash with something very very unattractive mixed in (I'd venture as far as to say vomit, but it seems to be different for everyone).
Things I'm learning now is that some tails (and I mean SOME!) can be a good thing, but not if you want to drink it straight away! Tails needs time on Oak... and again, thats my opinion, not everyone here does tails.
I can't think of any reason to include heads! Good to go into an all feints run or with the next wash...
woodduck wrote:Yep the smell comes out once watered down.
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