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  • Ive been to Wychwood Brewery several times. Love that place. Also the home of Brakspear these days

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  • Silly Questions Department:- has anyone used home-brew style beer to make a Whisky? What did you try and how did it end up?

  • A dubbel and a braggot. Got it from a home brew friend that wanted to clean out his kegs avid wasn't getting them anymore. Made a really good whiskey but imho isn't worth the effort to make from scratch

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  • @Unsensibel said: A dubbel and a braggot. Got it from a home brew friend that wanted to clean out his kegs avid wasn't getting them anymore. Made a really good whiskey but imho isn't worth the effort to make from scratch

    Thank you... trying to explore things and develop my skills from the simple sugarheads...

  • @EZiTasting said: Thank you... trying to explore things and develop my skills from the simple sugarheads...

    If you know some home brewer, it pays off to join a mashing session. Compared to beer, mashing for whiskey can be done "lazy" as you don't need the boiling.

  • I've used some coopers malted ale goo, dex, and some peat smoked malted barley to make a 25 litre whisky wash. Took about a week to ferment. Stripped it through my pot still and then did a spirit run through the pot with tight hearts cut then aged it on toasted chips for a week then realised i'd put too many chips in (double what I should have used). So I strained the extra chips off and let it sit for another week. I thought it seemed a bit oaky, but when friends tasted it, they loved it. Very smooth with a smokey aged taste. They originally thought it was a good 7 year scotch haha

    It was a bit of mucking around, a little expensive for the goo, had to mill the barley (with a nutribullet....) and I squeezed out the spent barley by hand but the result was pretty satisfying for a first time. Would I do the same again? Maybe not right now. I want to try a UJSSM or cfw and see how they compare when aged on toasted oak. I'm very much a novice, but that's my experience. Hope the info is of some use.

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    @Unsensibel - yes that's a great idea but I little more difficult to execute... still looking for people doing home brews up where I live (regional town Far north WA) but I am looking!!!

    @ClubNed - haven't done UJSSM but have a CFW on oak (3months now) looks great, haven't tasted it yet! Too chicken... want to make sure it's good-good before diving in to it... had suggestions of min 6 months butt then there's also other suggestions... much much shorter suggestions...

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