Distilling Tennessee Style Whiskey At Home
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- Its time to distill a Tennessee-style whiskey at home! This means I am finally going to give charcoal filtering a solid try. It had to happen one of these days.
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Note on the bubble plates - We’ve done some testing and the interesting thing about perforated, single cap bubble plates is that they actually work similarly if you run them in a still with the cap facing up vs. facing down.
If you run them with the cap facing down, the cap acts as a downcomer. Vapor rises through the perforations in the plate and liquid will pool and flow down into the cap. It will eventually fill the cap and the liquid will spill out of the cap slots into the chamber below. If you run them with the cap facing up, the cap acts as the riser. Because there is virtually no resistance for vapor moving through the cap, the vapor pressure will be much lower at the perforations and they will act as downcomers since liquid will actually slip down through them under these conditions.
We currently recommend running the single cap, perforated bubble plates with the cap facing down. But like I said, and as you can see, it actually works well running them with the caps facing up. Maybe this could be an experiment for an upcoming video? Perhaps you could create a wash with a similar ABV and document exactly what kind of proof difference you see with the caps facing down vs. facing up.
That's great 🤣🤣🙏🙏
I never would have guessed that there is such a drop in pressure under the plates? Perhaps the bubbles from the upcomer breaks the surface tension, like in a diving pool? But why is pressure lesser through the cap than up the perforation? The steam has to travel through the same liquid? 🤔
My knowledge of thermo dynamics is far to rudimentary, but it is certainly intriguing this topic, I may have to test this 🤣🤣🙏🙏
Have a nice Day!
I haven't watched you since my wife passed, about 6 months ago. It was good to see you again, like seeing a reminder of my old life. Good video and you have more toys!
Super sorry to hear about your loss mate :(
@@StillIt thanks. I had just received a still that I purchased and as soon as I return to Alaska I’ll be trying it out. I have 6 months of video s to catch up on!
Yeah! Wheatbix is a staple brekkie in South Africa.
Really nice to see you being back at trying new whiskeys, and aging in jars 👍
I am already excited for the follow up!
You and me both!
Best charcoal for flavor stripping is activated stone charcoal, which is actually bituminous coal. It comes in granular and pelletized forms. It is best since it has micro pores/crevices necessary to trap various contaminants. Activated Coconut charcoal can be used, but it has larger pores/crevices and does not work as well. You can mix some coconut charcoal with the stone to achiever a blend. The ratio of coconut to stone should be 15-20% coconut and the balance of stone. Never use aquarium activated charcoal, it will not work. The filter should be at least two feet in length and no less than 1.25" inside diameter. Using a shorter or smaller diameter tube will result in the liquid channeling down the sides of the column thereby missing the filter medium. This is called the "Wall Effect". A good, activated stone charcoal filter is very nice when making neutral spirits like Vodka.
I should add that any charcoal you use must first be rinsed of dust and used damp. Don't worry about the water in the charcoal diluting your spirits when running through the damp filter column. The spirits will force the water out first and there will be virtually no mixing. As liquid runs out, taste it off and on till you can tell when the water changes to spirits. Toss the water and keep the booze.
To dial in your water speeds and not have to run to the finicky tap you should just install a clamp on the hose. You can tighten or loosen it to regulate speed and added advantage of being able to have it there at the still so you can see.
Yeah, came here to say that, too. Thumbscrew pinch clamp on the hose itself. Just get a good flow from the pipes, then step it down as needed with the clamp. I've set up lab drips with pinch clamps for precision chemical processes. You can get it incredibly precise that way.
Even better - use a small pump.
@@shoutatthesky Consistent pressure is definitely a must.
I use an in-line valve from Home Depot that works great.
Hmm, if only they made a device to control the flow of liquid coming out of a pipe..... SMH
I took some black oak and torched it to a toasty brown then put them in the bottle. Unique whiskey flavor
Dropped by because of tec ingredients to see what your up to! Having knowledge about this art makes it interesting to keep watching !
Hi, i'm a artisanal professionnellal distiler in a vineyard. We use 4 stage bell cooper still during our second still, from 40(low wine) to 78%
I live close enough to the weatbix factory. I smell them making them when the wind is right 🤙
You should try living near a sugar mill when it’s milling season
This has nothing to do with the video. I am new at the game and I just wanted to thank people like you, George Duncan and many others for the volumes of information and inspiration to get me involved in the craft. I enjoy the let’s see if we can distill this and that attitude. I find the calculators very helpful and saves me a lot of time. Hope your having a kick ass week and happy distilling.
Good to see a BD syringe in use. If you need any let me know.
hahaha, that one may have come home from Massey.
We have Weetabix in Vancouver, BC Canada... I noticed it yesterday at the grocery store after watching your other video on Weetbix
You should try filtering it through a Britta filter.
I was eating super. I had some sweet peas on my plate. So i thought these are very sweet. I would love to see a mash and distilled using sweet peas.
Good stuff brother. Im not into Gin and Vodkas so Iv been waiting for this
Awesome. Yeah we have had a bit of a gin heavy content schedule lately. I have more whiskey ish type content planned :)
I’d love to see you try it again now that a year has passed. Do you prefer the unfiltered or do you still prefer the filtered version now?
Wheat Bix is alot like our Shredded Wheat. So I totally got your reference.
Jesse, this was one of your best videos yet. I loved the music portion even though it was short. Perhaps going forward I would add some time showing the still distilling along with the music.'
Great Job....
Glad you liked it dude :) Suggestion noted.
Greetings from Kigali. Following all your video much inspiring
hows it :) Im going to say this is the first comment I have seen from Kigali!
@@StillIt Dear Jesse, I have found myself revealed to make Alcohol. I doing the deep creative research of cosmetic production where I am doing quality bar soaps. While I was looking how to make 100% made in Rwanda, in order to get perfume of my soaps I found out that I had to get Alcohol to be mixed with my perfume. I started the project and used all remaining of fruits from my home. I created my our tools for distillation and imported the tester. My first result was 40 Vol of Alcohol. Waw! The second time I got 0 Vol the 3rd time I got 20 Vol. I am inspired to keep my research to have 100 vol and I am happy to have you for your guidence. This science is very precious for Rwanda and Africa.
Agree with your prediction on preference Br. Pls consider a follow up airpro video using the maceration basket to hold the charcoal. Appreciate your passion.
No wheatbix here in Texas.
Your not missing out on much mate hahah
and the carbon is recyclable just heat it in an oven 200 degrees C will be heaps, much hotter and you risk it catching fire .
Commercially it is done with steam denser carbons are harder to ignite hence safer
Last time I did a corn likker run, I tried "fast-aging" with Amer White Oak spirals that I toasted. I had the white whiskey in mason jars, and dropped a spiral in each one, then put them all in my freezer for 24h. I then took them out for 24h, and repeated that for a couple months, to imitate summer and winter of the barrel houses in TN and KY. It seemed to work pretty well.
Nestle Shredded Wheat is the USA version of Weetabix
Just ordered the airstill kit. Also on nz.
I love my whisky flavor water
When "they" say that whiskey has to come off a still under 160 proof, does this include the foreshots portion? For example, is it okay to run slow at the beginning of the run to collect forshots that are higher than 160proof and then adjust the still to run lower than 160 proof? Or do they mean the average of the total amount that comes off the still should be less that 160?
We have "Weetabix" in the UK
Any idea on how George Duncan is doing?
same thought here when Jesse quoted "smells like a**" for tails... a "classic" George phrase...
No update on that front really. I put a video out a while back saying everything I know about the situation. As far as I can tell it was just time for him to step away.
Hope he is well.
I think the "Lincoln County Process" needs to be experimented with. I wonder if adding more Heads and tales through adds a more smoother but bolder flavor. I like my Whiskey bold but smooth. I say the best Liquors are the ones that if you're not paying attention to will mess you up while making you want more. I go by a Smoother/Harsher/sparkly as a texture descriptors and lighter/bolder/heavier as a Flavor descriptor. I good whiskey in my book is as smooth a Pure Water and as bold as Key Lime pie.
Dam great teacher
Weetabix is easily found in the US... just go to the foreign foods section of your grocery store. True story.
South Africa is big into weedpix
Weetbix is in South Africa
Very informative, thank you!
Ohio USA yes we have those nasty biscuits even with fruit
Hah… We have Weetabix in Canada too!
South Africa has Weet-bix.
Almost time for a taste test. nearly 12 months.
Not sure why you just didnt put the charcoal straight into the jars - where the volume is ! Then filter it in batches .....
Just curious from a refinery guy looking into the hobby wouldn't you all ways want your cooling water coming in the bottom and warmer water going out the top?
Uk has weetabix. I live only 4 mile away from they 1st started making them back in 1932
You CAN get wheetbix in the US, but the normal fare would be the original corn flakes, Wheetbix would be a Amazon order
I need to send you some mesquite wood to you. I’m curious how the flavors would come across.
I plan on doing 15 gallon batch of whiskey at 100 proof at 60% corn 30% rye 10% malt can you tell in pounds how much grain I'll need
And I’ve been wondering how..
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Closest to Weetabix in the States would be Post Cereals Big Shredded Wheat
A question if bought a whisky already aged I could keep it aging
It's a year later now. How did the aging turn out?
Hi Jesse
Mate, I'm interested in what you said about heat treatment and ultrasounding the lighting, do you have any videos on this ?
Definitely want to give it ago.
Thanks mate
Wheetabix in North America
Sir why my wine brandy getting bad smell when I distilled
Does it count as a burbon? I know its not in a charred barrel, but... Seems pretty close.
Really the water intake goes to the product condenser first or you lose some product.
How are you going to loose product mate?
@@StillIt Should always have the coldest water at the product condenser, not after it's been heated
@@hucanal3460 you will lose product if you do not have adequate cooling. Vapour will come out the end of the condenser. You can't get that back. This condenser has a crazy amount of cooling potential compared to the size of the still.
Offtake was around 20c throughout the run. So no vapour was lost
@@StillIt I know but why heat the water on the dephlegmator before the product condenser. The product condenser is the key to the whole thing and should get the coldest water not preheated.
Great video, thanks .... seems worthwhile adding a little charcoal when force ageing or over oaking??
Wonder what Krispy Kremes original glaze be like Stilled 😋
Can you share your mash bill? Great job on the vids! keep em coming.
Its on screan at the begining. Or jump over to the claw hammer video for lots more details.
THANKS NICE .. DES IN BELFAST, IRELAND
Where does the flux capacitor come in?😂
19:29 Jack Daniel's, not Jim Beam. Beam is a Kentucky bourbon.
Ozzie kids are wheatbix kids :P
What are your thoughts of adding corn sugar to pump up the abv
Would be curious on your thoughts of corn sugar being added I know your opinion of table sugar
Taste is not subjective😏... Charcoal filtering takes out the good stuff. And I am from the US, PA.
Do you sale the oak staves you use on your channel and if so where can I find them
Yup sure do. Here you go mate:
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Would someone please tell me what wheatbooks is? First time I heard workbooks, and thought of schoolbooks. Please fellow Anglophones, I am truly confounded.
It is right around 13:25 when the man explains the essence of the tails
What are your thoughts of % Abv going into your boiler for a spirit run? Is it better to dilute down higher proof to a larger volume so your heart cuts are larger? I feel like foreshots and heads take a fair amount of high proof alcohol out especially when your starting abv is higher with less volume. So if the alcohol in the larger volume comes out slower does that make the heart cut larger? Or maybe cleaner? Easier to cut?
I’m a huge fan “Chaser” I have bought both of your CTC shirts from Into the AM. I love the designs! very Cool! My question is about the ultra sound treatment? I don’t remember a video on that, unless I missed it. Thank you for all you do and you inspire me to make cool spirits!
When you run your t-500 reflux set up in pot still mode do you remove the packing out of the column?
We have shredded wheat
You guys don't have oak??
Needle Valve on the reflux condenser output may help?
Right on, especially to control the reflux condenser or a dephlegmator.
Why is your reflux cooling water going from top to bottom? Don't most coolers go bottom to top. Wouldn't you have to pump the water in at a very high pressure to make sure that the condenser stays full?
Top down for me. Top down pushes the heat down where bottoms up spreads the heat upward.
@@C123Martins Do you have a valve controlling how fast the condenser empties? If not, how do you keep it full of water if you are just dumping it in the top? I've never used a reflux condenser.
Its going to depend on your setup a whole lot. I guessed before starting that I wouldnt need a whole lot of cooling power (because I figured I would be running in the 0.7 - 1.3 KW range. That deflag is also pretty big. In other words in some situations depending on the setup running slightly inifecently may be a good thing.
If your having trouble getting enough cooling it would definitely be something to look at.
At 2:14 is that a Russian built Doctor Gradus still/boiler that is shown at the bottom right of the screen?
It sure looks like one with the green pressure relief bung in the lid.
They look like a good rig.
Did you have any problems sending money to Russia to buy one?
(You know that part of the money you sent is taken as tax and that tax money goes towards
Not sure why you had to leave America to do that some states allow the distillation of liquor for personal consumption.
Have you ever tried vacuum distillation to preserve flavors that would otherwise be destroyed by the heat in a regular distillation?
Guys help, I'm looking for exact such fruit press (stainless) as Jesse has.
Distilling Death wish coffee?
I just made this and figured id share it. 55 gallon recipe.
160 lbs of bananas
5 gallons molasses
12 lbs of shelled walnuts (boil)
12 lbs white sugar
I remember watching a couple different videos of you using bananas. Keep on gas'n
No limestone spring water?
Hi Jesse, just a question on the water in and out. I was told to have the in on the bottom always, does it make a difference?
Water tends to cavitate when running in through the top, unless the component is primed first...in short you have substantially less water contacting the surface area of the condenser or dephlegmator which can only mean reduced efficiency.
@@theghostofsw6276 exactly my point jet his water in, is on the top of the dephlegmator🤔
@@lmy5pence481 Yeah......I don't get the point of using the same water source for both dephleg, and condenser either...seems like an exercise in inefficiency. Both should have their own water source, with needle valves on both. Apparently your condenser CAN run too cold, and condense substances that you might not want in your product. Certain congeners....but it seems a bit advanced.
@@theghostofsw6276 Yes but Jesse is always experimenting and one of the best, when I hear the comments of other stillers, ex bearded and clawhammer and the likes
Yeah it can make a difference. In this situation I was betting that I had more than enough knock down power. So I was not worried about it being "efficient". The water was running at a trickle and gave all the cooling I needed.
You make me more proud to be a Tennesseean than I ever have.
On a slightly related note too your Weet(a)bix comments . I used to downwind of the breweries in Edinburgh and I was always convinced I could smell what was only described as "Weetabix and gravy" not that it was a bad smell mind it just seemed an odd combination 😀
Edit: the drip method is Jack Daniel's not Jim Beam. Jim is just a Bourbon 😀
This is the ultimate seduction aid along with dimmed lights and Chris Stapleton's song "smooth as Tennessee whiskey, sweet as strawberry wine".
As I like Jack Daniel's and a good PEETY highland single malt, I'm curious to know what the lincoln process at have the soak time would do to a scotch. Being in the US I can't find out personally. 😁😁
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You put your bubble caps upside down!
Curious to know how you are able to get flavour to transfer over using a reflux still?
I have tried macerated gin and wbab wash and get no flavour transfer!
Even with no active reflux and marbles(plates) removed with an insulated column, there is no flavour.
One meter 2”copper column with shotgun condenser(your influence)!
Would love to make a Tennessee whiskey.
Should I re design with shorter column?
Any advice appreciated.
Love the channel
Your awesome.
Hello dear owner of the channel, i am following you and i am really glad to enjoy your contens, but i do need to make a question : How come i never see the part in the distillation where you cut the head and the tail of the snake throwing away the dangerous part? are you doing that without me notice that or perhaps using so processed malt for the mash you can throw away so little because the most production of methilene is coming from the "wooden" part of the cereals ?
Also, would you do a weetbix fermentation and run that??
Why does every whiskey brewer look the same ?
Amazing video, Jesse. And a pleasure collaborating with you, sir. The charcoal mellowing part of this video is so awesome that it should be its own video!
Thanks team, so much fun!
It isn't illegal under federal law to make any kind of liquor for personal use.
Its when you start brewing 15 gallons at a lick & selling Pappy's Corn Squeezin's in Mason jars, that Law Enforcement takes notice.
Ironic that you had to leave America to freely distill the whiskey
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Why don't you char the ends of the staves? I've noticed people doing this, but never explain why.
ENJOYED VERY MUCH!! Thanks!!
this is my favourite video of yours. as someone who has never distilled, but love whiskeys this has helped me learn the process. admittedly i did have to lookup what "fractionate" means....also "jaggy". but top quality vid, bud.
Yes we have Wheetbiix in the United States and I buy it every once in a while.
Great future project. Thank you.