Pedro1970 wrote:Pat / Clay... what ratio's of smoked did you use?
I have just gotten the 65L Brewzilla, and also purchased 75kg of barley (50kg Golden Promise/25kg Distillers malt) and the HBS owner threw in 1kg of each UK Heavy Peated and NZ Manuka smoked. I also purchased M1 whiskey yeast and have Alpha and Gluco amylase to play with as well for first time...
I popped my cherry yesterday morning with my first AG run, I played it safe with 10kg grain to total water of 65L
The above batch ended at 1.053 (temp corrected) with 48Ltrs; I'm going to ferment on grain and I pitched 40gms of M1 along with 4gms of Glucoamylase late yesterday and man the thing is going brilliantly so far... once again playing it safe I went with max recommended for yeast... given the takeoff I will bring it down next run.
Batch 2 will be up around max capacity (limit is 16kg) but this time i'll hopefully remember :violence-smack: to add some of the Alpha amylase when mashing in and will once again use the gluco with yeast.
My third batch is when i'll play with the peated/smoked... wondering if 1kg of either in a full size batch for this machine will even show up :think:
Wellsy wrote:Silly question bluc butif you did a 100% single grain would that make it a single malt ?
Or have I misunderstood what a single malt is
Wellsy wrote:Thanks Sam
So I take it that was a yes given Bluc only used the 1 grain :-D
Pedro1970 wrote:so my excitement was a bit premature then with thinking the 1kg freebie was a good score :teasing-tease:
Maybe i'll mix them together (1kg of ea Heavy Peat & Manuka) and do a 30ltr ferment and see how the flavour goes... no point doing a 65Ltr batch I dare say :wtf:
wynnum1 wrote:I thought that backset was first used hot out of the still to mash the next fermentation to save money and effort and that they then found improved the flavour. .
tubbsy wrote:Pedro1970 wrote:so my excitement was a bit premature then with thinking the 1kg freebie was a good score :teasing-tease:
Maybe i'll mix them together (1kg of ea Heavy Peat & Manuka) and do a 30ltr ferment and see how the flavour goes... no point doing a 65Ltr batch I dare say :wtf:
Yeah, you probably won't even notice it in the final product. There's not really much point doing a single peated run as you need to recycle the feints to build up the peat levels enough, especially if you're after an Islay style whisky.
Pedro1970 wrote:Thanks tubbsy.... I'll just put it aside somewhere dry until I can get my hands on a 25kg sack of peated...
Just checked my batch I put down on Thursday morning and to my surprise it's finished... SG of 0.98 @23C - 5 days and it's done! Not sure if it was the M1 yeast or adding the gluco amylase; or both combined :think:
Off to sanitise my racking barrels so I can get another batch into the big fermenter this arvo :-D
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