Georgio wrote:A mate of mine got some North American maple from a bbq wood smoking place online in Aus. I have toasted it and finished some UJSSM with it. Pretty pleased.
Westshine wrote:Well for those interested in filtering, I bought a box of "charcoal fruit wood" from Bunnings. Who knows what the fruit wood is but hey beggars can't be choosers. I bashed it up under a towel with a rubber hammer and washed the dust off, I used a large sieve with fine muslin cloth and run a neutral through it. I probably did this about 10 times. For some reason the ABV dropped?? I'm sure there is a reason for this but as I was running 92% through and it dropped to 89% it's not really an issue.
It smoothed out the bite and left a slight burnt caramel flavour that is very pleasant. May not be sugar maple but I'm going to run with it for my AG bourbon.
Doubleuj wrote:Westshine wrote:Well for those interested in filtering, I bought a box of "charcoal fruit wood" from Bunnings. Who knows what the fruit wood is but hey beggars can't be choosers. I bashed it up under a towel with a rubber hammer and washed the dust off, I used a large sieve with fine muslin cloth and run a neutral through it. I probably did this about 10 times. For some reason the ABV dropped?? I'm sure there is a reason for this but as I was running 92% through and it dropped to 89% it's not really an issue.
It smoothed out the bite and left a slight burnt caramel flavour that is very pleasant. May not be sugar maple but I'm going to run with it for my AG bourbon.
I highly suggest against anyone doing this, there is a huge difference between using charcoal for smoking meat to filtering something through.
Just the fact that you have said it left a flavour to your spirit means that it has imparted “something” to your drink :handgestures-thumbdown:
woodduck wrote:For one mate you've taken this thread off topic. Secondly there is no need to be a scientist to question someone trying something that is unproven. It is our job as moderators of this forum to ensure we promote safe home distilling. Allowing without question unproven methods to be posted and assume they are ok is not a safe move. Doubleuj was questioning your method so that people can see it's not a proven method therefore they would be cautious of it. If you can prove your method is safe then we will be all good with it. We can't be expected to be able to prove you wrong, we're not scientists, just blokes that care about our members.
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