Jdwko

[Wobblyboot]

Am moving house in next week and can experiment again after that. 1st I want to try is a Tennessee clone in macs style like a bwko. Has anyone tried it before? Planning on using corn 3.2kg, rye grain about 500g and about 300g of Pilsner malt, American whiskey yeast and want to source some good maple syrup and 4kg sugar with some citric acid for 1st batch then use backset on rest.

[Bushy]

Sounds good. Where are you getting the rye?

[woodduck]

I use rye instead of wheat in my bwko and it seems to work fine for me.

[Wobblyboot]

I got some rye grain in one of those health food shops, bought a grinder a while ago, bought the cracked corn for bwko, have some pilsner malt so all ready to go apart from moving. Still need to find maple syrup but that will be added to finished product so no rush. Where can u buy rye grain in bigger amounts?

[woodduck]

What state you in? I get my fancy grain from brew shops

Maple syrup in woolies or coles but make sure it's the real deal, not fake stuff.

[Wobblyboot]

I'm in outer east of Melb but I do travel for work so anywhere in metro area is good :handgestures-thumbupleft: am looking more for 20kg or bigger. Bintani looks like good place to get malted at good prices but didn't see any rye on their website :think:

[WTDist]

I read in another thread about people adding honey to the boiler when stilling to get that honey bourbon whisky flavour as adding it to the ferment was expensive and the boiler only needed a small amount.

Im wondering with this, can we add maple syrup to the boiler to get that flavour carry over instead of adding it to the bottle like with the honey ones.

[warramungas]

I was thinking that with honey vodka. Use an appropriately sized inline thumper with clean neutral in the boiler, add some honey (or gin ingredients even) to the thumper then as soon as its full, as you don't want the honey returning to the boiler, turn off the rc and rip it until its empty. Could do the same with a maple syrup and an appropriate wash.

I think the majority of the jd flavour comes from the maple filtering more than the ingredients though.

[WTDist]

I added maple to a CF/WB whisky and it didnt quite hit the spot. preferred it without and JD is my favorite drink

this is the thread i was referring to

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1710&start=20

[Wobblyboot]

I remember reading somewhere that someone added 30ml per litre of maple syrup to finished product to get required taste :think: does that sound right?

[scythe]

I believe the post was by crow in the nuclear ageing thread.
Maybe.

[Wobblyboot]

Moving is mostly done and now for the important stuff....put down 3kg of cracked corn, 4kg of sugar, and pre ground 420g of rye grain and 300g of Pilsner malt that I did a week ago. Gunna add some citric acid. Then cold water to get temp down to 30 to pitch rehydrated yeast :happy-partydance:

[Wobblyboot]

I think this was the link that I saw about the amounts of maple syrup
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3503&p=70845&hilit=Jack+Daniels#p70845