Air Still Pro: Making Whisky, Gin and White Rum with Still Spirits Flavours at 40% ABV
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Air Still Pro: Making Whiskey, Gin and White Rum with Still Spirits Flavours at 40% ABV - • Air Still Pro: Making ... .
Hey folks, in this film I'll be using an Air Still Pro loaned to me by bewathome.shop to distill a tomato paste wash and from that make whiskey, gin and white rum. I had initially set out to just make white rum, not realising that I had three different flavour syrups from Still Spirits.
In the film I do two runs in the Air Still Pro, firstly a stripping run and then a spirit run. I remove the heads and the foreshots and then flavour the spirits before bottling them and adding a little vegetable glycerine to smooth out the flavour.
Upon opening and tasting, I'm not overly keen on the spirits, the whisky tastes quite harsh and cheap, as does the gin, the white rum is a little better, but all of them are only drinkable to me with a mixer added.
After using these flavours, I can say that I probably wouldn't use them again.
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Cheers mate, glad you like the films! Have you seen the channel called Still It? The guy on there (Jesse) is much more knowledgable than me, I'd recommend you look at his stuff too.
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Do you have a video on the tomato wash?
As always, another nice video. I have used the flavorings with mixed results. Some I like, others I don't. None are great neat. When mixed most are okay. Considering the cost to make these we would be fooling ourselves to expect a fantastic comparison to the real thing. Sugar/TP wash is fast, simple, cheap and the ingredients are always available. I prefer flavoring syrups like English Toffee, Irish Cream and Bourbon Caramel rather than the spirit flavorings. I look forward to your next adventure.
Hi Jean, wise words and I agree, I haven't tried the toffee, cream or caramel flavours, but they do sound very nice, I may have to experiment for this Winter's liquers! Cheers.
Like this very much, very honest.
My wife is very susceptible to that sugerwash/methanolic taste, as you describe it. I have found that leaving it to breath and putting my still spirts carbon filter in the jug, I have a wide mouth 4L swing top jug, and leaving it for a week to breath and then capping it and leaving it for a month, completely gets rid of that taste. As I said I do leave my spirits in a swing top 4L glass jar that does not seal 100% so that can make a difference. One of these jars has been standing with 89% abv neutral for 5 months and is now 87% if that helps.
As for the flavorings, I have spoken to many a distiller in my community about flavorings and the answers have always been; "No they are terrible", to "They are awesome for a cheap mixing drink, and after a few you won't even know the difference", no in between answers. To me that is not a selling point. Have you considered making a small batch "safety" whiskey? Happy to share one of mine, work very well.
I can say I have tried only one of the still spirits flavorings and absolutely loved it, their cream base baileys whisky flavor was worth if, as for the other flavorings I have only word of mouth.
Keep up the good work love the content.
Thanks for the comment, I totally agree with the ageing and filering, and in fact I triple filtered the gin that i've just tried and left it much longer and it is really not bad at all. The film for that one will be up in July. I've never really considered doing a small batch, it sounds like a sensible idea though. Cheers mate!
@@MossHomeandGarden looking forward to that film. Try a small batch. That's how I got started and you can't go wrong, as long as you have done your research, which is clearly not a problem for you.
But start off with a safety whiskey. I see you mentioned Jessy form still it in another comment. That's where I got the idea and it has brought me full curcle. Even in an airstill. Alot more work but stil do able. Especially when you consider that whiskey needs triple distillation on copper. Something that can be easily done in an airstill.
That would be a very interesting film as I can't find something like a full grain to half full grain whiskey distillation in an airstill anywhere on YT.
Give it a go. Would love to see your take on it
Why don't they make hydrometer out of plastic. Broke three in last 12 months.
@@ianlunt4984 Why indeed? Although I've been advised that plastic isn't good for high ABV alcohol...
Hey, love the videos.
I've recently picked up an Air still and have my first TPW brewing away. Been doing a lot of reading and people seem to suggest collecting in 100ml batches in jam jars for the spirit runs, leaving these to air 24-48hrs and then tasting to figure out which parts contain the heads, hearts and tails.
In theory if you did this and were selective on the cuts, you could cut down the harsh taste in the end product? Likely to get a lot less end product but with a smoother finish.
Have you ever thought about making a rum from scratch using a molasses wash? Might be an interesting video idea (and maybe molasses could mellow or hide harsh tastes?)
Hello, thanks for the comment and I'm glad that you like the films. Yes what you have said is correct, particularly if you are pot stilling. Those with a better nose than me often do this, I've had a go a couple of times but am still learning as I do it. Hope that helps!
As for a molasses wash, yes it would be good, but it costs a fortune in the UK so wouldn't be very economical. I'd like to try tapping a silver birch tree to do this.
@@MossHomeandGarden If you haven't checked it, the home distiller forum has a lot of great reading materials for the basics, been really useful for me.
NAF Horse molasses goes for around £10 for 5L which isn't too bad and should be safe for human consumption after the distilling process - I think it is also sulphite free which should mean a nicer tasting end product. Paying £4 for a 500g jar would add up for a large rum batch!
Tapping a birch tree sounds interesting - would love to see a video on this!
@@Yyunm The horse molasses is something that I've never heard of, has anyone in the brewing forums used it? It's certainly worth considering at that price, but I'm still a teeny bit concerned about it being food safe enough...although yes distillation should solve that. I'm going to find a suitable birch tree out of the way for next Spring (that's when to do it).
@@MossHomeandGarden If you Google "home distiller UK - Looking for Blackstrap Molasses" the top result should be a thread of people discussing horse molasses, treacle, golden syrup etc in the UK. Consensus seems to be that it's safe to use and makes a decent rum.
@@Yyunm Thanks for the info, I'll research that and yes you are likely to see it featured in a film in the next year....
Hi, great videos, I watch them all the time....just one thing, I do have the Air Still Pro but remove the stainless and copper saddles for Pot Still Mode, keep up the good work !
Hello, yes I've done that too, it's a bit of a pain though I think, how do you find doing it?
Hi stu, the lids on the pop bottles are fully recyclable including the lid.
And you will be pleased to know that Lucozade bottles now they have the same lids (keep an eye out) are fully recyclable too
That's good to know, cheers Andy!
Isn't distilling illegal in the UK, even for home consumption?
I actually don't know, but it's less than 5 litres per year from me so hopefully I won't get my knuckles rapped if it is!!
G'day mate what did you do with the first 200 ml on the spirit run ?
These days I tend to use the first 50ml as fire lighter and chuck the rest in a demijohn, it then gets poured back into the still when I'm running something else through. I don't still that often these days though, so it all might end up as fire lighter!
it'll taste 100x better if you start making heads/hearts/tails cuts! great video
G'day mate what do you do with the heads and tails please
@@rossdickson4590 Keep them aside in a bucket (throw out the foreshots though, or save them for a cleaning solution / weed killer). After a stripping run on another brew, chuck in the old heads and tails and you'll get a bigger yeild. just make sure the flavour profiles mostly match. or if you have enough, do a whole run on tails /heads
It's not so easy in reflux mode as it comes out so strong, but i'm going to pot still on my next stilling film (whenever that may be) and have a go at that.
Do you filter your spirits done in air still pro?
Yes I usually do.
@@MossHomeandGarden thanks for quick response. Would you use Air still carbon filtration system or something different?
I use the Still Spirits carbon kit. Many use a Britta Water Filter
try the stripping run in pot mode, its twice as fast as reflux, then do the spirit run in reflux, a bit of butter or oil will act as an antifoaming agent. your not smelling methanol as its only produced when you brew pectin, but you are smelling acetone and other nasty fusil alcohols, heads could be 50mls or 350mls there is no "set amount" to remove, heads are sharp and acidic and smell like acetone, the small carbon filter is totally pointless, just leave the spirit open to the air overnight and alot of the more volatile esters will gas off
Yes that's good advice, I think my next stilling (end of Summer) will begin in pot still and then go into reflux. I've got a couple more still films going up in the next month but they've been made a while.
Assuming you didn't do it correctly hence mixed results but yeah spirits, whisky and gin are chore to make.
Ciders, Wine and Beer are more fun than whisky honestly.
I'm just not a big fan of spirits Aaron, I tried to do it as correctly as possible, but yeah beer, cider and wine is much more to my taste.
@@MossHomeandGarden Sometimes it's okay to try something new yet turn out not so great Stuart.
You know, only time it can worked was add Oak chips with whisky
Your power sockets are a housefire waiting to happen. Those multiway cubes are horrible and get hot with arching thrown in. Take each wall socket into six way individually switched power strips (good quality ones, nothing cheaper than £22 each) might save your life.
I appreciate the warning, but there is usually only ever one thing per socket actually switched on, I just don't like have the plugs loose on the worktop.