Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Howdy,

Just tapped a 19lt keg, naturally primed on 100gm Dex, 3 weeks conditioning, Coopers Pils kit with 500gm+ rice malt instead of LME and minimal Dex

lovely pale lemonade colour, no chill haze, no sediment, used Polyclar, 3.5 - 3.75% est, nice balanced Galaxy and Citra short boiled finish...if this was in a bottle it would be bloody premium :handgestures-thumbupleft:

geez I love beer... and the occasional stronger one from the shed collection... 12 kegs and growing

happy
bt1

Let's see a photo of that colour!

here it be...




it's darker under the lighting but in real life a cracker

bt1

Well done mate bet it tastes great. Nothing beats home brew on tap

...and here I was pouring 50L of cider down the sink today because it tasted too much like beer...

...the worlds a funny place.

Why didn't you run it through the still, Frothy?

Zak Griffin wrote:Why didn't you run it through the still, Frothy?

That's the question. Makes a fine calvados. That's a waste of readymade booze right there.

Zak Griffin wrote:Why didn't you run it through the still, Frothy?

....I didn't realise that was a 'thing'....goddammit!!!

...and now I've double read up on what 'Calvados' is....DOUBLE DAMMIT!!!

Mate, anything except (apparently) beer, bang it through the still and strip it... At very least, run it through a reflux and get a neutral out of it!

Awww crap, I could have had a Pear Brandy :(

Frothwizard wrote:Awww crap, I could have had a Pear Brandy :(

You've learnt an expensive lesson, you do not waste 5% or more booze - it goes in the still:-)

Here's the kit and extract spreadsheet designer. You can't go past this little baby for planning and production with straight up 'kits and bits'. You can keep your all grain 8 hour brew days...I'd rather be stilling. :-D

Thanks to the good folk at Aussie Home Brewer for all the refining... More info in here on the kits and bits you're likely to use than you could possibly ever need or use.

I have to link externally as the forum won't allow .xls for some reason.

http://www.filedropper.com/kitextractbeerdesignerv41

BackyardBrewer wrote:

Frothwizard wrote:Awww crap, I could have had a Pear Brandy :(

You've learnt an expensive lesson, you do not waste 5% or more booze - it goes in the still:-)

Not that expensive, the juice was on special...about $20 worth...could have been worse.

Frothwizard wrote:

BackyardBrewer wrote:

Frothwizard wrote:Awww crap, I could have had a Pear Brandy :(

You've learnt an expensive lesson, you do not waste 5% or more booze - it goes in the still:-)

Not that expensive, the juice was on special...about $20 worth...could have been worse.

Ahh well chalk it up to experience but do you know how much neutral you can do for 20 bills?
:-)

BackyardBrewer wrote:

Frothwizard wrote:

BackyardBrewer wrote:

Frothwizard wrote:Awww crap, I could have had a Pear Brandy :(

You've learnt an expensive lesson, you do not waste 5% or more booze - it goes in the still:-)

Not that expensive, the juice was on special...about $20 worth...could have been worse.

Ahh well chalk it up to experience but do you know how much neutral you can do for 20 bills?
:-)

Actually yes :(

very nice BB,

I can really spend some time in this one...geez covers pretty well everything.

cheers
bt1

BackyardBrewer wrote:You can keep your all grain 8 hour brew days...I'd rather be stilling. :-D

I did both at the same time the other day ;-)