hi great video im a home distiller im doing this cuz i love the way i make my own product and its a hobby for me I have a question about making vodka and nowhere I could find my answer I hope u can answer my question🥲 I have a 4 inch 6 section (bubble plate) copper column and I distilling my grain(wheat) mash 4 times at 90% to 94% (every time dilute to 20% with filtered water and redistill it again) and at the end using heart and discard head and tail and 10 times filtration with active charcoal so why it has some weird sweetness to it and its not smell like commercial vodka ????? i want to make tasteless odourless product but somthing is wrong 😕
Hey Mo! Thanks for the lovely question, I appreciate you taking the time to comment. I did some reading and the sweetness can be a few things. It could actually just be the sweetness of the ethanol. Really good neutral spirits is naturally a bit sweet. Most store-bought stuff is such trash that we don't know what a really good neutral should taste like. The natural sweetness of the ethanol is masked by the heads and tails they include in the product. There is also a possibility that not all the sugar is fermented and carry overs to the distillate. But this normally only happens with sugar washes or molasses fermentation. The sweet taste could even be ethyl acetate. Ethyl acetate is most often found in your heads cut. You get ethyl acetate when the yeast is stressed by having too much ethanol around it. Making a low yield wash could get rid of the excess amout of ethyl acetate. Now this is only a few possibilities, think and try them out. Let me know if you get better results or have some other ideas. Keep being awesome! Cheers!
@@distillergreyling9135 such a nice answer i never knew this possibilities all of them may happened for me i add a bit sugar to my mash and maybe yeast have some difficulty during converting sugar to ethanol i appreciate that you could find such a helpful information i definitely try to consider this possibilities in my next batch and absolutely share my results with you happy to subscribe your channel one of the best channels i ever sub thank you for your answer cheers mate
Cool video Brother
Sweet, thanks Man!!
hi great video im a home distiller im doing this cuz i love the way i make my own product and its a hobby for me
I have a question about making vodka and nowhere I could find my answer I hope u can answer my question🥲
I have a 4 inch 6 section (bubble plate) copper column and I distilling my grain(wheat) mash 4 times at 90% to 94% (every time dilute to 20% with filtered water and redistill it again) and at the end using heart and discard head and tail and 10 times filtration with active charcoal so why it has some weird sweetness to it and its not smell like commercial vodka ????? i want to make tasteless odourless product but somthing is wrong 😕
Hey Mo!
Thanks for the lovely question, I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
I did some reading and the sweetness can be a few things.
It could actually just be the sweetness of the ethanol.
Really good neutral spirits is naturally a bit sweet.
Most store-bought stuff is such trash that we don't know what a really good neutral should taste like.
The natural sweetness of the ethanol is masked by the heads and tails they include in the product.
There is also a possibility that not all the sugar is fermented and carry overs to the distillate.
But this normally only happens with sugar washes or molasses fermentation.
The sweet taste could even be ethyl acetate.
Ethyl acetate is most often found in your heads cut.
You get ethyl acetate when the yeast is stressed by having too much ethanol around it.
Making a low yield wash could get rid of the excess amout of ethyl acetate.
Now this is only a few possibilities, think and try them out.
Let me know if you get better results or have some other ideas.
Keep being awesome!
Cheers!
@@distillergreyling9135 such a nice answer i never knew this possibilities all of them may happened for me i add a bit sugar to my mash and maybe yeast have some difficulty during converting sugar to ethanol i appreciate that you could find such a helpful information i definitely try to consider this possibilities in my next batch and absolutely share my results with you happy to subscribe your channel one of the best channels i ever sub
thank you for your answer
cheers mate
Hey Mo!
I love helping where I can, that’s part why I started this channel.
I’m glad I could help and here’s to many happy distilling times ahead!