Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hi Everyone,

Did my first run of trying a whiskey batch on my pure distilling pot still.
The wash was 2.5kg of light malt and 4.5kg of dextrose.
Did the stripping run and ended up with about 6.5 liters of 45% ABV.
My mistake was not to water this down to below 40% before the spirit run and to have only 6.5L in the 30L Boiler.
The end product was 80% ABV over 13 jars at 300ml each, pretty much no taste at all when watered down to 40%.
So it was pretty horrible.
So my question is can I put this through the Pure Distilling Reflux Still and make some neutral for using essence, or just chuck it down the sink.
Also any tips of what else I did wrong would be great.

Cheers
Andrew

Age it you may be supprised :handgestures-thumbupleft:

bluc wrote:Age it you may be supprised :handgestures-thumbupleft:

What he said :text-+1:

if it is no good after aging you can always redistil it then

It is amazing what a different a bit of oak and time can make

If the batch has all been watered down to 40% then aging won't make any difference as the ABV for aging is 65%, also 2.5kg's in a ferment where more than double of sugar/dextrose is used is going to be a pretty weak taste to start with.

So maybe just keep it in a glass demi and do another ferment this time using a heap more malt and less sugar or even better read on how to do your own single malt mash as it is pretty easy to do then when the ferment is done just add that demi to the stripping run to boost the yield. After the spirit run water down to 65% then age on toasted/charred oak for 12 months and have a great tasting drop.

Now for doing a single malt mash just heat some water to 73C then chuck in the malt which will drop the temp down to 68C then just keep the mash above 65C and below 68C until the conversion is finished. Like i say have a read about this subject and learn how to make a true single malt whisky :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers Bryan