Carol wrote:Hi Geoff
Wellsy has a FSD 4" pot and has "played" with it a lot so he is a good source of info.
I have done one lot of nutrigrain whisky. Pot still configuration - 2 copper coils in column.
My notes tell me that I discarded 300ml fores and then collected in 300 ml lots wirh power at 60%. Started at 82% ABV and collected down to 19%. Power increased as I got into tails.
I ended up with 31 jars. Then I made my cuts.
Maybe you will need to wait until the power controller arrives.
Cheers
Carol
First of all thank you for any contributions any of you moon shiners may have to my latest endeavours
So over the last 10days I have fermented 3 BWKO washes.2 are first generation and one is the 2 nd generation.After stripping these in my FSD pot I ended up with about 14 liters of Alcohol @ 40 %
After some helpful contributions I gathered this was good as I didnt need to dilute it any lower.
So today,after following Carol's advice ( which was gratefully received btw) i did my first spirit run however I did this in my pot still using only 2 rolls of copper as per Carol's previous post
So having turned down the power to around 55% on the new power controller ( which i love ) these are my results
Now I know that I didnt make cuts etc ( fully ) but I just wanted to get a " lay " of the land
1 liter @85%
1 liter @82%
1 liter @81%
1 liter @78%
1 liter @65%
1 liter @40%
And a dribble @ 20 %
So my question is what do I do now with my cross section of spirit.The high Abv smells obviously strong and the low abv smells like corn/ wheat etc
Do I blend it or just use bits and pieces of it?
I have SS kegs i can oak it in and have a range of toasted and charcoal staves.I must admit on early tasting of a previous experimental batch ( sick of going to Dan Murphy's- so I made some quick how ya goen batches) I prefer the charcoal as the toast was a little to sweat
Tia and kind regards Geoff