Toxxyc
New and loving it
Hi guys,
So I've made a few batches of all grain wash recently and distilled it with my crude pressure cooker still. It works. I blended a bunch of these stuff together and stuck them on all kinds of oaks and toasts for a few weeks and 5 weeks later I had a spirit that's actually pretty damn good. Yes it's young, it's green, it's harsh and it's crude, but for a few bucks per bottle and 5 weeks' of time I would call it a "success". So I'm continuing.
Right now I have a wash I made with some corn and malt. Low corn content, just for a bit of flavour. I totally missed the efficiency I was hoping for (still don't know why) so I'm going to be blending it with more malt distillate for some volume. I also have a nice strong wash I made busy fermenting that should give me a few litres of useable new make spirit as well.
But that's beside the point. What I want to ask before I drifted off is this: I've made regular malt washes to date, but my next step is a peated whisky. I'm a big fan of peat, from the low peats to the high ones. So now the high ones are what I'm aiming for. The malts we can get in South Africa is pretty limited, with only a handful of places stocking peated malt. The one thing I noticed as well is how the phenol levels of these malts differ from brand to brand. One brand's malt has "between 5 and 10" ppm, and the other has 15 to 20ppm. So that's a vast difference, but I don't really mind the difference as long as I can concentrate it into the whisky.
So my question: How would I know what ppm I would end up with if I use the different malts? I want to hit high PPM in the final product, but how do I get that and how can I "calculate" if I use, say, 8kgs of 15ppm malt to make a batch of whisky?
So I've made a few batches of all grain wash recently and distilled it with my crude pressure cooker still. It works. I blended a bunch of these stuff together and stuck them on all kinds of oaks and toasts for a few weeks and 5 weeks later I had a spirit that's actually pretty damn good. Yes it's young, it's green, it's harsh and it's crude, but for a few bucks per bottle and 5 weeks' of time I would call it a "success". So I'm continuing.
Right now I have a wash I made with some corn and malt. Low corn content, just for a bit of flavour. I totally missed the efficiency I was hoping for (still don't know why) so I'm going to be blending it with more malt distillate for some volume. I also have a nice strong wash I made busy fermenting that should give me a few litres of useable new make spirit as well.
But that's beside the point. What I want to ask before I drifted off is this: I've made regular malt washes to date, but my next step is a peated whisky. I'm a big fan of peat, from the low peats to the high ones. So now the high ones are what I'm aiming for. The malts we can get in South Africa is pretty limited, with only a handful of places stocking peated malt. The one thing I noticed as well is how the phenol levels of these malts differ from brand to brand. One brand's malt has "between 5 and 10" ppm, and the other has 15 to 20ppm. So that's a vast difference, but I don't really mind the difference as long as I can concentrate it into the whisky.
So my question: How would I know what ppm I would end up with if I use the different malts? I want to hit high PPM in the final product, but how do I get that and how can I "calculate" if I use, say, 8kgs of 15ppm malt to make a batch of whisky?