Make Bourbon Whiskey at Home Part 2

so I'm finishing off my Bourbon project so I end up here with about 17 little over 17 litres of of alcohol or liquor you could say from my stripping run so my yield for this was if you remember I used I started out with 25 kilos so that's about 55 pounds of crack corn then 10 kilo of rice so that was about 22 pounds of rye and then 15 pounds of malted barley and I did about eight run I did eight runs about 18 litres per run and so this is what I ended up with so now I'm going to load this into the steel but first of all I have to modify my still to make it into a reflux still so let's do that right now so if you remember this is the this is a column and that condenser is one piece off of my still so in order to turn this into a reflux still I have to pack the column with something and you'll notice I have this coil here this soft copper coil that's additional cooling I can explain that right now we'll gonna pack this with copper so right over here I have my copper iPod three feet of copper Kaufer I don't recall that it's like a scrubbing pad was made of copper so I coil that up and put that inside the - I'll show you how I do that so I'm doing here is I just just roll this not too tightly rolled it up about a 1 foot length of this rolls up just the right size inside this 2 inch column bed in there put in a second one I reuse these over and over I wash my real goodness when I'm done with that with it you know what they call it spirit run so I got that one done show that in there that third one this one's just a little bit longer but 13 14 inches longer the items are both 12 inches so this is about 13 or 14 inches a little bit tighter fit soul has been don't want this to fall back down into the still which I haven't experienced it works pretty good and then when I've done to remove it I just used a set of tongs out of the kitchen drawer so that's in there so the idea behind that is it makes it into a reflect still so a reflux is when you're forcing some of the heavier components of your the vapors back down and condensed against all this copper and they run back down into the still so you have a more of a pewter higher alcohol product coming out without the top of this deal and worked really good so I've got my pot on a stove and I filled it up with the liquor that I got from my stripping runs and pretty full looks like about 18 litres of liquor I get out of that so now I'm gonna first of all just verify that I'll call content of that it'll give me an idea what my yield is gonna be during my spirit ride so I put a sample of other liquor from my stripping lens into the sample two of the year and see I'm reading right around 22% I have this still loaded up with about 18 litres of liquor from my stripping run and I've converted the column into a reflux reflux calm so I'd remember I packed that two-inch column with that at the copper mesh and then I would have got here is an additional cooling coil right at the head of my column just below the temperature gauge there so what happens here is I run my cooling line up to the bottom of my condenser it goes up the condenser and out of the top of the condense and instead of running back to the drain now it runs over to this coil this cooling coil on the head of the of my condenser of the of the still I should say and then back to the drain so that time that creates a reflux still of forcing you know the the fusel oil is effusive alcohols or if you call them back down it is still so you get a more pure distillate better tasting and also higher proof alcohol too so it's good so now we'll just wait for this thing to heat up and see what kind of production we get so it's been about two hours and now am I still it just started running I get a really good production out of that and yep all right right around 78 degrees which is pretty perfect this is my fourth sample and I'm consistently running about 80 percent alcohol by volume so this is my last my last cut you could say my last bit that I'm gonna take from this spirit run it's right around 60% alcohol that's as low as you want to go after that just starts tasting not too bad I'll keep drawing the alcohol though out of the still it will still keep running for a while and I'll collect everything I can out of it these are considered tails and I'll use those on my next batch next time I make whiskey I'll just throw them right in the still along with you the the rest of a stripping run and that way I don't waste him in up any of that alcohol so I've been running this still now for probably about four or five hours I see our temperatures getting up around 82 degrees so that's pretty much it for the spirit run we still have plenty of alcohol coming out and we'll see here but it's going to be a fairly low percentage and we will have a lot of the fuse tool oils in it and they won't taste that good and as a matter of fact just to verify we've got the Commodore here and what do we add I think there are points where I wanted to so if we look at that it's about 55% so I basically stopped at about 60% alcohol after that you know we want to keep that stuff so this is the yield that I got out of my tea spirit run remember the 18 leaders of of my bourbon stripping run so I got eight jars one of them is only half full so that's one two three almost four liters and I'm gonna check the average alcohol and it's probably running about 75% and then we'll so I'll just mix that all together and see what my averages so I poured all of my liquor from the spirit run into a nice clean stainless steel pot mix it up just to see what my averages and so I have it there in my test tube and looks like 74 percent almost 75 percent so that was the result so now what I have to do is dilute that down to 60% 16 between 60 and 65 percent and then age it so let's move on to the next process so I've determined that I got a little bit of a few notes here determined that I have three point seven five liters of white dog you could say was he not quite risky yet until the agent three point seven five liters at 74% so right multiply three point seven five times point seven four animals two point seven seven so there's a pure alcohol there's two point seven seven litres in this container now I wanted to bring this average from 74 percent up to about sixty two percent for the purpose of Aging so I divide two point seven seven by 0.62 and I end up with four point four seven subtract that from my that's my total volume I need a total volume of four point four seven with that amount of alcohol in there in order for that to be at 62 percent so I add point seven two liters of water and it's going to be distilled water just hang on so I measured out here and my measuring cup 0.72 liters of distilled water and I hope my pots big enough to hold all this ball yeah okay so if I were to test this once more it should come out at 0.62 alcohol by volume so I need to do that right now just mix this a little bit sure it's sturdy like this it right around 64% so I'll leave it at that now we have to age this will go on to that next step in the meantime I've been running this still and we're running at about let's get close to 90 degrees high 80s just pulling all the alcohol out of this batch and like that we've already got three cores of it jar right there so that's about 300 50 liters or milliliters I should say I'll just keep running this until there's not much left so here okay well they figured we hit 4.5 almost leaders of of of our whiskey here at 60 actually turn out to be 64 percent so in order to each them I picked out a three liter bottle and then to 750 s that have sitting around some old whiskey bottles so that adds up to about 400 450 so a little shy here but now you'll observe in these two have already put the charred white oak in there I just wanted on that one and so I just buy slab of white oak from a local supplier slice it in a fairly small fairly thin strips so that I would say that's probably a quarter inch by half inch so they can I can get him in and out of the bottle easy enough so I just put those in there I'll put one two three four five six seven in there so I've got seven in there and I I'll hide this one away and these two I'll try to hide them away with all in there sampling them from time to time I got these two bottles out just to show you what happens this here is to roll malt that I did I bothered this in November 20th this is at 70% I put the wool strips in there and you can just see how dark that is it's beautiful it's really taking on some nice flavors and that's just since November so I have a few balls of it sitting around them to see how long I can leave that weight and this one has only since January this is rum though this is at 75% so it actually picked up the colors out of that I feel quite a bit faster you have to make sure you use white oak don't use red oak now what you have to do is label them so what I label on there is I'll put on what it is the green bill another date how many times I distilled it a percentage of alcohol so that's it you're pretty much done incidentally I'm still running the still and pulling off I just pulled off a half a liter at 50% it's still lots of alcohol in that stripping run and so I'll just keep running that and then I'll use what I've accumulated in my next batch here's my label at a multi to read that it says bourbon and a grain bill 60% corn 15% ride 15% barley 64% alcohol and the date April 10 2020 so the other the other beverages I've made the the single malt and the rum I I eat them at 70 and 75 percent and I think maybe it's a bit too strong it pulls maybe too much of the flavor out of the wood I'm not a half percent sure but I know it's bourbon they want you to put it in the barrel on a jet that's between 60 and 65 percent so I got it at 64 so it might take a little longer to pull out the color to get that nice amber color I don't know but anyway yeah there we go so I got my 4.5 liters bourbon at 64% was the total yield I got from that badge hope you enjoyed the video be there any questions or if you want to know more just put it in your comments down below thanks okay so this is the end of my virgin bourbon project and yesterday i bottled off what i what i take up from my spirit run i ended up with 4.5 liters and i just thought i'd show you how how this this bourbon here it's at 64% and it's already taking on the color even after less than one day from that ulster i put in there after i finished collecting the alcohol up to about sixty down to sixty percent then I kept it still running and I ended up with almost two litres of what I call tails so the average alcohol of that two liters is 40% so I just kind of set that aside next time I do whisky I could throw that in with my spirit run and recover some of the alcohol out of that but it's not really drinkable so I'm just going to leave that off to the side I'll label it so there

Channel: Mark Tompkins

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Length: 15min 8sec (908 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 11 2020