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Homemade alcohol (63 replies)

■ 🕑 51.
│  18 liters of 35% ABV in the boiler tonight.
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└─■ 🕑 52.
  │  when I get 6 liters out I'm going to shut off the machine
  │  starting to taste a lot of tails coming through now
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  │  I estimate maybe 2.5L are hearts but I'll need to wait and let the jars
  │  air out before diluting, tasting, and blending. Really excited to be
  │  making gin again.
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  └─■ 🕑 53. Spirit run results
    │  Pretty happy with the yields I got from $14 worth of sugar and trivial
    │  amounts of bran, tomato, and yeast. Water and electric are cheap so I'm
    │  not factoring them in to the total price.
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    │  > Phase 1
    │  60 L of sugar wine (12kg sugar)
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    │  Distilling these in 20L batches gave me..
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    │  > Phase 2
    │  20 L of 35% low wines
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    │  Distilled slow, collected in small jars gave me...
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    │  > Phase 3
    │  ~7 liters boiled out
    │  ~4 liters of heads and tails to save for a rainy day
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    │  ~3 liters "hearts" (all with consistent ABV, 70%)
    │  ~6 liters 40% spirit, dilute with water
    │  ~8x 750ml bottles of 40% spirit, will be turned into gin
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    └─■ 🕑 54.
        I wanted to make a ton of gin but I forgot to do inventory on my
        juniper berry stash.
        
        Using this recipe, per liter :
        - 15g crushed juniper
        - 5g crushed coriander
        - 1/4 lemon peel
        - 1/4 lime peel
        - pinch various spices
        
        I steeped 2.5L of "gin" overnight, then took out the citrus peels and
        threw it all in the boiler. Heating up now but I'm looking forward to
        this.
         

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