Here is the link to sugar wash recipe design #1. Not much has changed in the second iteration of the sugar wash recipe design. I am now using 15 grams of Pasteur Rouge yeast. I have dropped the addition of Read more…
Get oysters for Valentine’s Day. Shuck them. Eat them with your partner. Drink wine. Put them in your freezer and forget about them for months. Realize you have them, thaw them out, scrape off any oyster bits left behind, throw Read more…
Why use a pH buffer? This is my first stab at making a pH buffer for sugar washes. The thing about sugar washes is that they don’t have any natural pH buffer built in. As fermentation kicks off, pH drops, Read more…
Our videos are color coded so you know the content of the video before you click. The ultimate focus of the blog is to build a fully automated vodka still but we will be testing, and hopefully improving on, time-honored Read more…
Sure, bare copper is sexy but reflux stills work better when wearing a jacket. We all like seeing copper porn but I prefer not to go bare. Insulating the boiler helps stop the still from heating up the room (which Read more…
Note Taking The detailed notes for these spirit runs come from a spreadsheet I made that calculates theoretical percent complete (TPC), the reflux ratio, the running total volume collected, when to set an alarm based on your collection rate and Read more…
Wheels, man’s greatest invention. We would be a fool not to use them. I always have a bucket of Starsan going. It gets refreshed from time to time, and probably gets used a few times a week between my different Read more…
I’ve heard many things about spiral prismatic packing (SPP). It has a very mystical aura around it, and probably much misinformation swarming around it as well. This post is about the unboxing and cleaning of the SPP. In a future Read more…
Howdy Varmints, I’ll be going through my stripping run process from beginning to end including clean up. I try out a new invention where I turned my keezer’s C02 tank into a wastewater pump. Here is a link to the Read more…
I was surprised to find the correlation between pH and yeast metabolism. When making all grain craft beer at home, pH was never much on an issue. pH always seemed to take care of itself and it has been debated Read more…