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Homemade alcohol (53 replies)

■ 🕑 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.
    
    > Phase 1
    60 L of sugar wine (12kg sugar)
    
    Distilling these in 20L batches gave me..
    
    > Phase 2
    20 L of 35% low wines
    
    Distilled slow, collected in small jars gave me...
    
    > Phase 3
    ~7 liters boiled out
    ~4 liters of heads and tails to save for a rainy day
    
    ~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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