Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Some nice ideas coming through good to see and it truly is a bit of fun.

Crow if you have any recall on recipe for a lillypilly I'm on cos i like them straight off the bush. btw how would i sterilise the composter? :D

Gee Frank you have been around bit :-D guru on malts as a bonus...malt+ which fruit I wonder ground almonds or store bought almond meal? ...I'd like to try these one day

Good pt Multi especially for Law's strict will it ferment by itelf washes...keep this in mind when i crank up the next...Fennel to go into a to a Ouzo product.

bt1

bt1 wrote:Some nice ideas coming through good to see and it truly is a bit of fun.

Crow if you have any recall on recipe for a lillypilly I'm on cos i like them straight off the bush.Yep the main fella doing this died a few months back the his 2 side kicks are round and his son is a good mate btw how would i sterilise the composter? :D bt1

See there you guys go again wanting a sterile wash , ( beer brewers :roll: ) ya know the ole flogs use t chuck horse shit in as nutrient hey ?

I have done a coriander seed wash for thai terror but i added a nutrient bomb.

Taste good 5Star?, did the flavour come through much?.
My missus is an aromatherapist and makes her own products, i was talking about nutrients cause she knows a bit about it with her business, she mentioned she has pure vitamin A, E, and C in liquid form. Needless to say my ears pricked up :)) , how would i be able to work out what amounts to use if i did?, if they were appropriate?.

Cheers

Been a bit busy the last week or so,a word of warning! Be careful doing a mango wash.....the end product tastes great. It turns out very expensive when you turn around and the missus has gone and bought a new Dyson :angry-banghead: :angry-banghead:

Started another experiment fermenting yesterday.

Playing with some supermarket bought whole green dried lentils ( Google searching, supposed to be high in Nitrogen ), soaked them in water for two days then measured out 1 metric cup full and put into the blender with a cup and a half of the water they were soaking in ...

Blended the crap out of them, ended up with a foamy lentil milkshake lol ... :))

Dumped into my fermenter with 500 grams of passionfruit pulp (the vine here has been going nuts), 6kg's of sugar and a tablespoon of epsom salt and filled up to 25L with 90 grams of Lowans.

Smelled so good I started a second one ... lol.

Have them both sitting on 27 degrees and they are both kicking along just fine.

Was thinking, how can I make a passionfriut vodka, searched for high nitrogen foods with the intention of using as a DAP substitute. Hoping the bland weak flavour of the lentils works as a suitable yeast food and is totally overpowered by the passionfruit flavour?

If it tastes like crap after a double or tripple potstill I'll just make it into a netural ...

Cheers
GTH

I'm about to start making a boat load of liqueurs / infusions / elixers from native herbs and fruit, got a lot of stuff already from herbalistics.com.au, Quandongs are on the top too as we get a lot native to my area. Mango wines and liqueurs have been done before.

I won't be using any of them through the wash though but there is a really nice sugarbeet vodka from france so that should work okay, not sure the difference between sugarbeet and beetroot though.. Albeit I will be making a beetroot and chocolate liqueur and a avocado and chocolate liqueur.

That sounds yum grump!, love passionfruit!. Keep us posted about how it goes :handgestures-thumbupleft: . Beetroot and chocolate jesiah!, not sure if that should be nice or nasty :)) . Good luck!.

Have you never had beetroot and chocolate cookies? They are amazing! So moist and full of flavour.

After distilling the lentil passionfruit wash would much flavour be left? One would assume that you would need to infuse the flavour after distilling. passionfruit and blood orange go well together also.

Jesiah wrote:Have you never had beetroot and chocolate cookies? They are amazing! So moist and full of flavour.

After distilling the lentil passionfruit wash would much flavour be left? One would assume that you would need to infuse the flavour after distilling. passionfruit and blood orange go well together also.

The whole idea of the potstilling it is to carry over the flavour.

I just have no clue how it will turn out, the lentils may make it taste disgusting ...

There is a Mc Still post here somewhere about citrus vodka, "citrus anyone" where the wash contained the fruit.

I have made macerated passionfruit and used the simple sugar recipe to sweeten it, but it only tastes nice at a low abv for me and I don't like too much of it as I find it too sweet.

If this does not work, I might macerate in neutral then potstill instead and see how that goes.

Cheers
GTH

Sounds like a bit of fun...not sure about a lentil milkshake :puke-huge:

reckon I'm tempted to start matching veggie wash types to end products so my next will be the fennel (spicy/licorice/anise bulb type veggie) to go to a Ouzo...common flavours idea.

Malt and almond paste/meal for Frank... have a crack!

bt1

Im currently saving all the veg water from our meals and going to do a full wash with it, im guessing it might be to nutrient rich, will see.

I ran the Passionfruit / Lentil Milkshake wash.

Got a good volume from it and no weird smell in the distillate or from the boiler afterwards from the lentils.

Lentils worked very well in my opinion.

Just airing now then tasting to see how much flavour came through and see how good or bad it tastes.

Cheers
GTH

Post airing ...

No lentil taste :D no off tastes at all.

I think I have Passionfruit notes but I don't thinks it's enough to be drinkable like this.

Have made a 40% bottle up and put it in the freezer for tonight for "science", have also macerated 6 more passionfruit in another bottle of 40% passionfruit spirit and will leave that for two weeks before straining and tasting ...

In my opinion the lentils are a winner.

I'm going to use them when I make my next neutral wash instead of a TPW and see how it goes.

:handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers
GTH

Good stuff mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: , who would have thought lentils could be put to good use :)) . Let us know how your science experiment goes ;). Given me an idea toight, the missus brought some little tins of passtionfruit for cooking, might have to steal one :shifty: .

Put this down today
4.5kg white sugar
100 bakers yeast
500ml Campbell's liquid veg stock

Sg was 1078, just checked it before, bubbling away nicely and no tom stink. The smell is very neutral.

Spose you could mix it with carrot juice for the full on vegan experience :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Vegan Vodka :clap: :clap:

Hmmmmm hairy armpit woman :puke-huge:

Jokes aside I did here of some recipe somewhere that involved that V8 juice and carrots if ya can get feed carrots cheap enough are very high in both sugar and neut's. Some commercial vodka is made solely from carrots. might be hard to get them cheap enough but it wouldn't be too hard to source the recipe :twocents-mytwocents: