Distilling

[S0NWO]

Here is the final 110 proof product, called white dog.



I will smoke it and leave it to age with toasted oak staves, which impart color and additional flavors.

 

[RockyMountainHeathen]

Here is the final 110 proof product, called white dog.

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I will smoke it and leave it to age with toasted oak staves, which impart color and additional flavors.

very nice!! Love it!

 

[TechnoCaveman]

This is the total distillate that I collected. The jars on the left are first ones to be collected and they are in order of collection.
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I will smell and taste each one to see if it is suitable for the final product. the ones in the red boxes I expect will not make the cut. The green box is called the hearts, and always makes the cut.

The orange ones may or may not make it.

As you can see, a good portion of the run won't actually make it as whiskey.

Wow, three jars. That is very helpful to know. Thank you.

 

[CleverClairey]

This summer I have been making single malt from scratch. I bought a sack of feed barley from the seed and feed, washed it, sprouted it, dried it, and then kilned it to various colors to bring out the malt profile I wanted.

Then I mashed it in, fermented it, and stripped it (the first fast distillation). Today is the final batch stripping run (I fermented 3 batches).

Tomorrow will be a long, slow, final spirit run where all the distillate I've collected will be re-run, and collected in stages. I will then select which stages make the final cut based on flavor and aroma.

Finally, if I decide to make a scotch type whiskey, I will bubble some peat smoke through the spirit to imitate the peat smoked malt that it traditionally used.

Brilliant! Peaty scotch is one of my favorite flavors on the planet.