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 bastard4life
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 homebrew 
#823625 - 02/12/17 02:27 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Any members make there own beer wine or liquor here? I do. I was hoping to trade recipes ideas and generally chat about alcohol production.
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 Hawksresurrection
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I've brewed quite a bit Haven't in more recent times as I focus on marijuana more. But it was always fun.
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bastard4life
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I've never brewed beer. But I make 10 gallons of wine or mead a month. Plus I make my own rum and whiskey with a still I built. The boiler is a ss keg. It's a pot still with 2 inch column.
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Data
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Registered: 08/12/08
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I've distilled for DNA extraction reagents before. A presto pressure cooker and a 4 ft column got close enough to the azeotrope that I could dry it the rest of the way with baked epsom salts.
I used to brew beer and mead a lot in school, not so much anymore. Hopefully I'll be able to start back up soon, it's nice to have a few kegs to choose from in the garage.
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bastard4life
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 Re: homebrew [Re: Data]
#823652 - 02/12/17 07:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I run a vodka column in the house on the stove. I get 195 proof when I run it slow. My buddy makes tincture out of it. Sometimes I soak nugs in it and evaporate the alcohol and smoke the waxy stuff left over.
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resincoatedlungs
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I've done simple sugar+molasses+WBS mashes before with a bit of MgSO4 and CaCO3 for mineral content and ph; fractionally distilled, dried with mol. sieves, then distilled again passing the vapor through a NaOH drying tube.
Mediocre yields due to the OTC yeast but quality is untouchable. Really wanna try again with some of those "15-20% EtOH yield" strains.
Get that shizz down to around 0F to -5F and you can't even feel it going down; amazingly like water except you get "to' up from the flo' up".
Dilute it just a bit and drink at room temp and you'll be set ablaze from the inside-out.
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bastard4life
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Resincoatedlungs try premier curve yeast instead of turbo. It will ferment out to 20% alcohol. But honestly the best rum whiskey and vodka I made the original mash or washes Were between 5-7% abv. The lower the alcohol in your was the less burn later on. I went from stilling 20%abv washes down to 5-7% abv and found out it produces a better flavor. Ive learn to ferment low and raise abv with the still by doing 2 or 3 runs.
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Deadkndys420
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I wanna get into it. I've done beer kits a few times. But I plan on buying the equipment in a few months and start some real brewing.
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bastard4life
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If ur getting a still diy. If you buy a still by law the seller must give atf your address. That's y I built mine. No trace.
Edited by bastard4life (02/13/17 09:14 PM)
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resincoatedlungs
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Thanks, and noted.
I always did multiple runs through the column and my goal has always been get the absolutely most tasteless, pure, anhydrous ethanol possible.
I respect the talent and art behind brewing/distilling subtle, tasty liquor but, personally, I prefer all my drugs to be the same; absolutely pure and devoid of anything but the drug. One time I did get a very faint hint of "green apple" (assumed to be acetaldehyde) on my very first attempt. Don't know why it never reappeared but it wasn't bad by any means; quite nice considering it was an unwanted contaminant. No hangovers from that run either, strangely enough.
I'm convinced that the trick to having no burn (in my approach) is total dryness combined with sub-zero temperature.
Edit:
Yeah, DIY crude PC still with a copper condensor for the first two runs is the way to go.
Cheap chinese glassware for the real-deal polishing/drying runs... and other fun stuff as well.
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bastard4life
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I triple distill for that no burn. Say you run 3 12 gallon runs at 7% and you should get almost 12 gallons at 21%. Your next run heat up slow and keep the stream slow and throw out the first quart. Save everything after that first quart. You should get another 4 gallons at about 60%. Now pour that second run and put it in your still with enough cold clean water to match the original volume of wash which was 12 gallons. So add 8 gallons water to the 4 gallons of second distill and blast it out your still as hot as your condenser can handle. Take jars one at a time throughout the run. The first jar and last four jars have all the contams. The first jar smells like paint thinner the last jars are milky cloudy from the low oils. All the ones in between are the best. At 65%abv and at 90f there's no burn because of the 8 gallons of water acts as a filter.
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funky
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The brew talk is making me itch. I switched from beer to spirits years ago.
My rigs 6 gallon traditional pots
The right one was my first build the left one was my 4th build . I have a 1 liter still an kegarator I'll post pics of shortly.
What's everybody working with let's see em.
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bastard4life
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Re: homebrew [Re: funky]
#823743 - 02/15/17 06:58 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nice copper porn!!! I'll post my keg still later.
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poor boy
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i will start this once i get out of these apts. im going to make a wine that is similar to MD 20/20s with a micture of a high gravity malt.
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