Mac's Bourbon Whiskey Knock Off (BWKO)

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Mac's Bourbon Whiskey Knock Off (BWKO)

Postby MacStill » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:23 pm

My fermenters are 30L so I'll just give you quantities for that, and I measure my grains by liters instead of weight. I use 2 fermenters so I get a full 50L charge for each stripping run, and if one futzes up I can use the other to keep generations going.

1st generation.

2L cracked corn
1L wheat
1L barley
3.5 KG sugar
1/4 tea spoon citric acid
1 crushed vitamin B tablet (not really needed but found it to make a more vigorous ferment)

I usually dump the lot into 20L boiling water to soften the grains and invert the sugar, leave it for a couple of hours, stir it up good and dump it in the fermenter then top up to 30L with cold water and add about a quarter cup of yeast.

It should ferment out in 3 or 4 days depending on ambient temps, and I leave it to clear for another 3 or 4 days, I strip it fast and collect everything except fore shots until it hits 20% ABV and dump the lot into my other keg, usually end up with about 8 or 9 liters of low wines from each 50L stripping run.

2nd generation onwards.

Add 10 to 12 liters of the hot slops back into a bucket, tip sugar in and leave it to invert until its cooled and chuck it back on lees from last ferment, top up to 30 Liters and it'll fire up in a couple of hours.

Keep stripping batches until you got the 4th or 5th generation in the spare keg,then do a slow n steady spirit run.

Oh yeh! and I take about a half liter of grains out of the fermenter and add the same amount of fresh grains back each time.

Makes a real good whiskey

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