Thread: Anybody Have Experience Making Whiskey

Originally Posted by Medona

I have no experience to making whiskey.I think it is harmful for health.

Can be if you pull the alcohol off at the wrong temperature.

If you use banana for flavour, how much banana per litre ????

Originally Posted by the dogcatcher

Distillation by freezing is great. My old man used to make barley wine, Then i showed him distill by freezing and he spent 10 years pissed.

Thats a great Idea. Alchohol doesn't freez until long after the water. think I'll give that one a try. Fermenting is the easy part, its the distilling that is the chore.

Have a look at brewhaus.com

Those guys were GREAT at helping me get thru my years in Kuwait.

USED to be the idiots never x-rayed anything at the APO (Army post office) so we smuggled away whilst the smuggling was good.

Anyhow, smuggling aside, I got a one of the brewhaus.com Essential Extractor High capacity stills. It worked like a champ!

Trust me, it's waaaaaay too much of a pain to make enough of it to sell, so no worries about angering any local bootleggers.

Then again, I guess that depends on how much you drink.

It is a great hobby though.

The brewhaus.com guys have NO problem labeling your equipment as "cooking equipment" (which is exactly what it is) on the customs forms. They'll also ship the stack separately from the pot.

Turbo yeast and activated carbon and an alcoholometer are critical ingredients/tools.

Activated carbon----------get a brand new plastic gas/petrol can....one with an expandable plastic neck, dump a kilo or so of the activated carbon powder into said gas can, mix water with the 95% pure alcohol that spits out of the still & get it down to 80 proof (40 percent) or so, then pour that into the gas can.

It filters better when diluted, plus that pure stuff eats away at normal plastic (hence the use of a chemical resistant plastic gas can to start with).

Get some cotton balls/cotton wool, and jam it into the expandable plastic gas can neck. This is your filter that will separate your booze from the activated carbon powder.

The longer you allow your booze to soak in the gas can (slosh it around every so often), the more it soaks, the more it will have a very clean vodka taste, though a very fast run will do wonders as well.

Just lay the gas can on its side so it will drip into another container.

PM me with any questions.

I ran this puppy for 5 years & got quite good with it.

Jay

hello,
i have never made whiskey before, but i have made rice wine..but at last, i failed..

Hi There.
I worked for Aramco for quite a number of years and most of us guys had a pot still converted from a pressure cooker. This process takes about an hour if you have the right tools and to make a cooling coil a furthure half an hour.
The Aramco book is called the blue flame and gives yo all the deyails of how to distill alcohol.
Despite all the answers you have recieved the process of making ester/fusel oil free alcohol(thats what give you the headheador handover) is relatively easy having made 100's of gallons of the stuff myself.
Get a 100 litre plastic bin.
50kg's of sugar
one kilo of yeast.
Mixe all the ingrediants in the bin and fill with 50% of the bins capacity with water. You will realise why after a day.
When the froth has died down fill the bin to the 100 litres.
Leave for around ten to twelve days until the fermentation is complete. The signs are no more bubbles coming of the MASH.(PS KEEP THE MASH IN A WELL VENTILLATE AREA AS IT BELCHES OUT LOTS OF CO2)
Once the fermentation is complete youu are ready to rock and roll.
Do not listen to some of the other comments about activated carbon and how the alcohol melts the plastic thats a load of bollocks.
Email me on my personnel email and I will send you details on how to convert a pressure cooker or hoe to fabricate a still plus a cooling coil and most imprtnt the running temps.
bazzersomjai46[at]hotmail.com
PS even in Thailand this is illegal.

flash
Hi There.
I worked for Aramco for quite a number of years and most of us guys had a pot still converted from a pressure cooker. This process takes about an hour if you have the right tools and to make a cooling coil a furthure half an hour.
The Aramco book is called the blue flame and gives yo all the deyails of how to distill alcohol.
Despite all the answers you have recieved the process of making ester/fusel oil free alcohol(thats what give you the headheador handover) is relatively easy having made 100's of gallons of the stuff myself.
Get a 100 litre plastic bin.
50kg's of sugar
one kilo of yeast.
Mixe all the ingrediants in the bin and fill with 50% of the bins capacity with water. You will realise why after a day.
When the froth has died down fill the bin to the 100 litres.
Leave for around ten to twelve days until the fermentation is complete. The signs are no more bubbles coming of the MASH.(PS KEEP THE MASH IN A WELL VENTILLATE AREA AS IT BELCHES OUT LOTS OF CO2)
Once the fermentation is complete youu are ready to rock and roll.
Do not listen to some of the other comments about activated carbon and how the alcohol melts the plastic thats a load of bollocks.
Email me on my personnel email and I will send you details on how to convert a pressure cooker or hoe to fabricate a still plus a cooling coil and most imprtnt the running temps.
bazzersomjai46[at]hotmail.com
PS even in Thailand this is illegal

you can see lots of villagers making Lao Kao

just use a different brew for whiskey