Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hey all.
Haven’t done any stilling for a few years, and have about 150 litres of rum wash that’s been sitting in my shed since 2018.
I know there’s been questions asked about washes sitting a long time but couldn’t find anything referring to this length of time.
It’s in an olive barrel with a tight lid but there is a hose for an airlock which has just been hanging down the side.
Nothing growing on top, smells kind of acidic/ carbon dioxidey

What do you all think? Worth a run?

Cheers

Go ahead and strip it mate to get some low wines for the spirit run, a couple of runs will soon sort it out and ya never know you may get that manky rum lovers just aim for.

Cheers Bryan

No worries I’ll give it run
Cheers

How'd the run go

Still haven’t done it yet. Hopefully should get round to it soon.

Fishleg wrote: round to it

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Yea I've always had a thought to mint up "round to it" coins for all the lazy buggers out there

If it aint rotten run it. Trust me you will know when any wash is rotten...

Mate if that thing is 4 years old your next door neighbours will know if it's rancid!

Must have got your cleaning schedule on point. Probably a good ABV and pH too

Fishleg wrote:Still haven’t done it yet. Hopefully should get round to it soon.

Got around to it yet? The suspense is killing me.

<toes go'n "Tap tap tap">

I'm curious also... I have a couple washes that are past the 2 year mark...

A simple test in this situation would be to strip 10-20l and see what comes out.

It might be fine flavour wise, but if humidity has sucked all the booze out, you might only have a 1-2% wash sitting there and kinda pointless running.

In the op's case, as its rum, if it was a low abv, you could potentially re ferment it with some more sugar and or molly - if it didn't kick off with some warm sugar added, some extra yeast wouldn't hurt.

Threw out a 8 yo tpw i found from my first aborted go at distilling, as i poured it the smell was fine n plenty of booze, should have run it.

I must say gents...

Batch put down in 2018

Noticed in Jan 2022

To ask him for updates so soon is now bordering on harassment.

Stay tuned :wtf:

Garfield wrote:I must say gents...

Batch put down in 2018

Noticed in Jan 2022

To ask him for updates so soon is now bordering on harassment.

Stay tuned :wtf:

hmmm. yep

Garfield wrote:I must say gents...

Batch put down in 2018

Noticed in Jan 2022

To ask him for updates so soon is now bordering on harassment.

Stay tuned :wtf:

This is true, it has taken a long time to get back to it, I’ll cop that.
But I have a new bubbler and the time has come to give it a whirl. This evening I have racked off about 35l into the new boiler and set up the still. If I get home from work early enough tomorrow I’ll do the run, if not it will definitely be Friday.
Either way, stay tuned. Results pending

Ok, ran it over 5 plates.
Went pretty slowly, bled fore shots off then opened up only a little bit.
Collected about 500mls of heads then collected about 250ml jars after that at 90%.
At jar 7 abv slowly started to drop and a little bit of taily smells coming through.
Kept going to 85% at jar 12 then went to pot mode and stripped about another 2 litres of tails till about 25%

So still some juice in the old wash, wasn’t quite sure what to expect because I’m brand new to bubblers and single runs.
Seems a little low to me? And hard to tell until I do proper cuts but seems like a large percentage of tails?

But I think still worth running the rest of what I’ve got there.
I also think I might recycle the feints straight into the next run and see what happens there, does anyone ever do that?

At 35L wash your pretty much on the money mate

Yes , I always put the heads and tails if the same wash back into the next boiler charge

Did pretty savage cuts. Only kept about 1.6 l of the whole run. Diluted down to 60% for ageing and diluted a small sample to 40% for a taster shot.
Quite nice, maybe a little light on for rum flavour for my taste but pretty smooth and drinkable as is. Should be a good drop after a bit of time on oak.
Might do next run with only 4 plates

I noticed that with rum, the longer in the fermenter it starts loose flavour

5 plates @90% and a high amount of cut product suggests to me that your running a bit fast, I get 88 off wash and 90 off low wines with 3 plates.

I've found the take off rate of around 2 - 2.5 lph with a bit more than the lowest amount of power required to get that rate suits my 4" - ie plates looking full, not below the dc, not looking higher than the dc.