Today in the Shed

CothermanDistilling

not in my shed, but one of the guys on the BCS forum put this up, I think you guys might just have to wipe a bit of druel off your lip when you are done...

FullySilenced

Not bad for $500 bucks ... :D

crozdog

nice setup there cotherman.

jez

Wow that looks like a work of art.

FloridaCracker

Way to advanced for me to deal with. Also I think I just burned my retinas looking at that picture.

Knafs

The pictures look great, but the word castle made my head hurt.

jacksonbrown

Any detail on the valves?

richard

I liked the SS (copper brazed) plate heat exchanger. Certainly in the USA you are spoilt for choice.

The other thing I saw is they seem to have a simple blower (for gas line ??) with speed control ??.

Certainly interesting.

CothermanDistilling

@jacksonbrown said: Any detail on the valves?

I think he mentions where he got them in there, valves4projects, it looks like they have an ebay store, and there is lots of valve talk on that forum

yurgle

tonight I am stripping 100ltr neutral wash, reading "the kings county distillery guide to urban moon shining", having an Adnam's pale ale and cooking spit roast pork.

Who says men can't multi task

FloridaCracker

Sounds like the perfect way to spend a few hours.

Unsensibel

Spent three hits digging out from snow. Slushy snow is the worst...

punkin

Chickened out on todays brewday for the heat. Hopefully tomorrow.

jonno

That's been my excuse the last month.

punkin

Milled the grain yesterday so i'll be into it tomorrow.

Kapea

Loaded one ton of sand media into a mixed-bed filter. A 6'6" tall cylindrical one with a 4" opening on top. Tweaked my back lifting 5 gallon buckets of media up to pour it into a funnel in the 4" hole on top of the filter. Then drove 2 hours home. I could barely get out of the truck to open the gate when I got home.

I have prescribed myself 3 martinis to ease the pain, with more to be taken as needed.

Kapea

And the waves here are EPIC right now. They held the Eddie yesterday.

FloridaCracker

2 stripping runs of Gen 10 rum and started Gen 11 wash. The backset now after 10 generations smells like I would have a big glass of it for breakfast. A mixture of caramel, molasses and toffee.

I'm now well into my 2 barrel bastardized solera style process. The bigger 15 gallon barrel has about 7 gallons in it and the 6 gallon barrel is full. Since I have a pretty good stash of drinkable rum now, I can leave more in the barrels for aging. Weird about the 6 gallon one; it has only been used once for rye whiskey and now has been full of rum for over a month and it is almost as clear as when it went in. Maybe the cooler weather here. My other barrel colored the rum after 3 weeks. I guess it just means that it can stay in there longer without being over oaked.

grim

Eddie would go!

Kapea

Eddie would tow!

grim

Subliminally, I put this shirt on to go to sleep last night.

TheMechWarrior

Just spent the evening doing steam coil and condenser design calcs. Only got half way before my brain couldn't take anymore.

Smaug

@FloridaCracker said: 2 stripping runs of Gen 10 rum and started Gen 11 wash. The backset now after 10 generations smells like I would have a big glass of it for breakfast. A mixture of caramel, molasses and toffee.

I'm now well into my 2 barrel bastardized solera style process. The bigger 15 gallon barrel has about 7 gallons in it and the 6 gallon barrel is full. Since I have a pretty good stash of drinkable rum now, I can leave more in the barrels for aging. Weird about the 6 gallon one; it has only been used once for rye whiskey and now has been full of rum for over a month and it is almost as clear as when it went in. Maybe the cooler weather here. My other barrel colored the rum after 3 weeks. I guess it just means that it can stay in there longer without being over oaked.

Super interesting.

That spider has you wrapped deep within the web.

FloridaCracker

@Smaug said: That spider has you wrapped deep within the web.

Can't

get

out.

Smaug

The process is so systemic.

Some would say that it is too time consuming to render a complex rum. I say if you are trying to get to that complexity in a one or two step process then yes you will be forever chasing the carrot.

But once you have the ground work done, it's just a matter of recycling the aromatics.

FloridaCracker

I know that you have tried a shitload of rums. Gotta try and find a way to get a bottle to you so that I know if mine stacks up or should be shit canned.

Kapea

@FloridaCracker said: I'm considering one without the agitator. I'm only 3 hours away :D

Kapea

Binge-watching Billions while resting my back.
Trying not to think of they waves I'm not riding...

Kapea

Maggie Siff is smoking hot!

punkin

Got my second batch mashed in at 8:20am, gunna beat the heat. It's only 39C in the shed atm.