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advice please

Postby harold01 » Mon Jul 08, 2024 9:52 pm

Bidding on a couple of kegs of wine, question is, if I end up with it and its shit can I run it through the still
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Mon Jul 08, 2024 10:39 pm

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Re: advice please

Postby Wellsy » Tue Jul 09, 2024 5:57 am

I was given 75 litres of red wine that had been stored in 50 litre beer kegs from a winery mate. They used it to top up their barrells and it had not be stored properly and was rubbish. I ran it and gave away some of the grappa, which I was told was awesome, I could not drink the. Stuff lol. I aged some as well and it turned out a nice brandy.

Definitely worth running
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Re: advice please

Postby The Stig » Tue Jul 09, 2024 6:28 am

The hardest part of them barrels will be moving them around . So big and heavy
As Wellsy says , make brandy :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Tue Jul 09, 2024 10:07 am

Thanks, brandy it is
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Re: advice please

Postby Wellsy » Tue Jul 09, 2024 1:18 pm

Harold do not throw out what you make if you taste it before oaking.
I was serious when I said I could not drink the grappa lol
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Re: advice please

Postby RuddyCrazy » Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:15 pm

I did come across that listing and the wine is Shiraz where one barrel is 65% and the other is 50% full. Now from my research into using red wine if the wine is crap the brandy will be also crap :scared-eek:

Still for the current price it is cheap for 2 100 litre barrels but that auction does have a habit of going bonkers and it would workout cheaper just buying the item :scared-eek:

Cheers Bryan
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Re: advice please

Postby bluc » Wed Jul 10, 2024 11:29 pm

I made crap wine from grape concentrate wine kit fermented in 30c+ temp in garden shed. Once distilled and cut tightly made a nice brandy :whistle:
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Thu Jul 11, 2024 11:20 am

Thanks Bluc
That gives me hope
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Re: advice please

Postby hjubm2 » Thu Jul 11, 2024 6:44 pm

Makes you wonder why they didn't just run it theirselves considering they make/made brandy...
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Fri Jul 12, 2024 10:11 pm

college canned booze making years ago, vet science and Hospiital now, my brother does all the air con there, they operated on an Alsatian a few years ago and left the side gate open
dog was still under anesthetic and strayed out onto the main road and got run over and killed by a car
university student's aye
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Re: advice please

Postby oddian » Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:42 am

I'd love to know, where does one find this kind of thing to bid on in the first place?
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:55 pm

Evans clarke national
they have quite a few 25l containers of brandy up next week
I bought a bottle last night so I can see what the brandy will taste like
If it's any good I will have a crack at getting the 25l lots
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Mon Jul 29, 2024 12:56 pm

how many much 90% nuetral do I need to add to 43L of 40% brandy to take it to 60% so I can barrel it again
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Re: advice please

Postby WoodyD40 » Mon Jul 29, 2024 1:53 pm

harold01 wrote:how many much 90% neutral do I need to add to 43L of 40% brandy to take it to 60% so I can barrel it again


My head is telling me that it should be in the order of 17 to 20 liters of 90%abv.

Tried to reverse use the Dilution Calculator - and its spitting out a figure of 14.3 liters (which i don't believe at all).
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Re: advice please

Postby MarkA » Mon Jul 29, 2024 3:48 pm

harold01 wrote:how many much 90% nuetral do I need to add to 43L of 40% brandy to take it to 60% so I can barrel it again


I got 27.52 ltrs 90%
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Re: advice please

Postby WoodyD40 » Mon Jul 29, 2024 8:13 pm

harold01 wrote:how many much 90% neutral do I need to add to 43L of 40% brandy to take it to 60% so I can barrel it again


I reckon add slowly and test frequently until you get it to the level ABV you desire.
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Mon Jul 29, 2024 8:44 pm

woody
I was trying to work out a formula mathematically but there are so many ways of approaching it, I reckon your right, just take 1 litre and see how much you need to add of the 90 to bring it to 60 and x that by 43
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Re: advice please

Postby howard » Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:44 pm

i found a calculator.
28.667L of 90%ABV + 43L of 40%ABV = 71.67L of 60%ABV
https://www.omnicalculator.com/food/alcohol-dilution
it seems pretty accurate, unless you want to go down the molecular weight rabbithole :?
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Re: advice please

Postby harold01 » Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:44 am

thanks Howard
so much for the new 50L barrel I bought for it, I think I need to get the 100L out of wraps
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