Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Finally, over the past 9 or 10 months, I've accumulated enough BWKO to fill the 50 litre oak keg I got for Christmas. :happy-partydance:

On Tuesday night, after following the manufacturer instructions of putting a couple of kettles full of boiling water in the keg to swell the ends, my distilling assistant and I diluted down to 62.5% and filled the keg.

All seemed to be going well until we tried to move the keg. Firstly, it was heavy and secondly it was LEAKING! :scared-eek: Managed to roll it around so that the worst leak was above the liquid level, then let the bourbon soak in for a couple of days by rotating the keg. It has pretty much stopped leaking this afternoon.


You can see the stains from the leak on the left hand side of the photo.

As you can imagine, not much has changed over a couple of days.


Here is a comparison with the same stuff I have had on oak Domino's for about 6 weeks.

I'll post more photos to document the changes.

I guess your lucky it stopped leaking 8-}
I think your supposed to completely fill with water until it stops leaking and then fill with spirit
My last one wouldn't stop so I had to seal it up with some candle wax which did the job

Love your keg ...please Santa :D

but Dude ...is that a plastic hose fitting on the tap

water is one way but you done it the right (read best)way :handgestures-thumbupleft:

crow wrote:water is one way but you done it the right (read best)way :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I was gunna say why fuck up a good barrel with water :))

Granddad use ta say the same about whisky reckon it fucked two good drinks in one hit :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

crow wrote:Granddad use ta say the same about whisky reckon it fucked two good drinks in one hit :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

That right there should be in the history books if it's not already.

I'll just fix it a little.

Granddad use ta say... same bout whisky n water.... reckon it fucked two good drinks in one hit

BO = BWKO - Bloody phone :angry-banghead:

I can't remember where I saw or heard it, but I had it in my head not to soak the whole thing in water. It was panic stations for a minute or so, but in the end I probably only lost a litre and I know where I can get more.

Love granddad's saying. I can imagine what he says about mixing with coke, but then it's only fucking one good drink :teasing-tease:

Nice keg Wiifm :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Roll out the barrel cooperage in Qld do nice barrels I'm told.

DBV

Fixed the typo for ya, wiifm :) was wondering why anyone would collect 50L of BO :laughing-rolling:

Apparently my old man is getting me a 20L barrel for Father's Day... I think I might fill it with rum, though.

dogbreath vodka wrote:Nice keg Wiifm :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Roll out the barrel cooperage in Qld do nice barrels I'm told.

Yes this one is from Roll Out The Barrel. When I spoke to them about what I wanted, they were aware of aussiedistiller.com.au :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Well done mate, if you can lock it away for two years it should be starting to get pretty fucking awesome :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Will a 50L take that long Sam, I thought maybe being a smaller barrel it would oak quicker.
Only asking cause I'm in the process of trying to accumulate enough UJ Whitedog to fill one of those kegs.
I haven't bought it yet but but the time is getting closer. Roll out the Barrel isn't to far from me to drive to pick one up.

i filled a 6l uncharred barrel with macwiskey and 6 months was the sweet spot :handgestures-thumbupleft:
it tasted like an irish when earlier taste test were conducted but at six months it was almost like bourbon :dance:

Sounds like you should of bottled some at both ages, they both sound good.

SBB wrote:Will a 50L take that long Sam, I thought maybe being a smaller barrel it would oak quicker.
Only asking cause I'm in the process of trying to accumulate enough UJ Whitedog to fill one of those kegs.
I haven't bought it yet but but the time is getting closer. Roll out the Barrel isn't to far from me to drive to pick one up.

I only have a 25L but it takes a whole year to get good :handgestures-thumbupleft:

SBB wrote:Sounds like you should of bottled some at both ages, they both sound good.

Every one loved it at the wabs xmas party at mac's when it was more like an Irish
But I prefered it when another 4 months older an more like bourbon
The barrel made a better product than the staves but was slower and the angels certainly got there share ;-)

bayshine wrote:and the angels certainly got there share ;-)

Without that mate your never gunna make prime booze

Week 2

I'd probably take samples month by month, or you'll have none left by the time you get to 2 years haha