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Homemade alcohol (63 replies)

■ 🕑 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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