Gday ALL!
I have a couple of questions, based on the fact I'm getting an oak cask for my 40th birthday
1) Does it effect the quality of UJSSM if you split the grain bed over 2 fermenters. I'm currently up to Gen 3 and I use a 200 litre pickled olive rum with a garbage bag as my air lock secured by a jockey strap, works a bloody treat. I'm considering after running gen 3 ( the first two gens were stripped and made a lovely neutral) which will be aged on medium char oak. When going to gen 4 I'm considering splitting the grain bed into 2 fermenters and adding 25% dunder from Gen 3 into each fermenter as well as adding about 2.5kgs of corn and 36 kgs of sugar into each fermenter.
The original recipe was 4.2 kgs of cracked corn and 36kgs of sugar, generations are 36 kgs of sugar and the weight of the spent corn which is removed after each ferment and given to my mate to feed his pigs.
2) My 4 plate bubbler makes a lovely spirit in a single pass, generally from an 70 ish litre wash I get about 5 litres of alcohol after cuts at 67% for ageing purposes. Should I continue to run the bubbler in a single pass, putting away my cuts until I have enough for the oak cask or should I do a couple of stripping runs over 1 plate and then a final run over 4 plates to speed up the process of stripping 400 litres of wash for 20 litres of finally cut alcohol for my oak cask? What would everyone recommend?
Thanks everyone for your feedback, its greatly appreciated.
My setup is as per my profile pic, 18 gallon modified boiler supporting a 4" FSD neutraliser.
Cheers,
Matt.