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  Comment Author: tank

  Published on: May 13, 2016

  to tyler yes filter for best and easy clean up
  i have s small 15 gal beer keg still with a 1 gal thumper. make several 55 gal barrels of wine last year. free fruit cant turn it down. today make a barrel of all grain mash 30 lb ground corn 5 lb barley malt 50 lb sugar. did it a little different this time 30 gal water at 200 f poured on corn and let sit stirred every 15 minutes for several hours. added another 15 gal at 150 f and 50 lb sugar once it cooled down to 150 added 1 teaspoon amylase stirring again ever 15 minutes mash thinned out a lot then added about 3 lb malt barley test on the hydrometer shows a starting of 1.06 happy with this point. will let it cool over night covered and add a gal of whiskey yeast tomorrow will see what it works to next week.
  the wines had a off flavor so i ran 4 batches and collected about 12 gal at 100 proof less the fore shot. ran this with pure water in the thumper pulled 7 gal at 155 proof and it dropped quickly on the last 2 gal to 140 and 90 on the last 2 gal 4 gal for moonshine@ 110 proof and 3 gal to make bourbon style whiskey@ 100 proof.
  starting gravity on this all grain batch show 1.06.
  wish i started doing this 20 years ago. who ever said making shine was easy must have been young man.

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  Comment Author: TYler

  Published on: May 03, 2016

  So I’m in the process of fermenting my shine. And I would like to know since I have it in five gallon buckets if I need to relieve the pressure inside by cracking the lid once a day or so. Or is there another way I should be going about this. Also my second question is when it’s time to run my mash for the final product, do I have to filter out all the corn and sugar and everything in my ferment buckets? Or do I pour everything into my still?

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  Comment Author: Andy

  Published on: Apr 04, 2016

  I have a mash working now for 8 days. I used 10lbs.of sugar with 5 inches of c.o.b. feed b in a bucket . after straining my wash I added 2 qts.of pureed re – hydrated fruit, then run thru my blender with distilled water. I added 4 tbls.of turbo yeast with 4 gals.distilled water.its working good now for 8 days.it started working 10 mins.after adding air lock.should get a gal.out of my onion top copper still at 150 proff.

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  Comment Author: phil

  Published on: Mar 30, 2016

  Just started my first batch see how it goes

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  Comment Author: BRYCE

  Published on: Mar 26, 2016

  WHY WOULD MY AIRLOCK SHOW NO ACTIVITY BUT I CCANT HEAR AND SMELL IT FERMENTING