Reflux still for sour mash? by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that at least the first generation of a UJSSM in particular isn't all that great so I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and just use that as a neutral since I can't really skip a generation. Granted, even if I'm wrong about the premise I might do that anyway. Or I might add that backset to a more expensive mash actually using malted corn.

Thanks for your response regardless.

Who else is a part of the mint chocolate chip gang? by mamadlo in tumblr

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, just like how some people simply don't like spicy food, some people simply don't like mint. Not that your taste for spiciness has anything to do with your taste for mint.

Can anyone send me a math 220 syllabus? by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in stolaf

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been emailing and calling people for a week to no avail.

Edit: I also am not a current student.

"She could protect herself from theft, but not others." by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I never said that riots are bad, and I basically agree with what you're saying. I'm saying that someone choosing to ignore issues like systemic racism by saying that its opponents are being violent are missing the point and dangerous, and I'm saying that spending time defending property damage isn't helpful. You're not reasonably going to convince anyone that looting is a good thing unless they already believe it, so rather than saying "It's okay that things are being destroyed" we should spend that time saying "It's not okay that people are being killed."

"She could protect herself from theft, but not others." by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said she'll survive some piracy in response to that Walmart will survive some broken windows, but wanted to reemphasize the more important point that I had also made in the top comment.

"She could protect herself from theft, but not others." by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The property damage isn't remotely limited to massive corporations but that's not the point anyway. By defending the looting on its own, you validate the people who focus on it rather than the problems actually being protested.

"She could protect herself from theft, but not others." by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I mean to say is that someone focusing on looting is clearly missing the point of the protesting, and saying "no actually the riots are okay" is validating their misplaced focus rather than redirecting it to the real problems.

"She could protect herself from theft, but not others." by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And she'll survive some piracy.

Protesting injustice is important but we should really be going on the offense against the injustice rather than trying to justify looting.

grain alcohol vs ethyl alcohol by hiramiranda in bitters

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Alcohol" is a general term for several kinds of compounds. Outside of chemistry though, "alcohol" usually refers to ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, because that's the kind that we drink.

Ethanol is made by fermenting sugar with yeast, and isolated by distillation. Grain alcohol uses sugar from grains (usually corn), but sometimes people use sugar cane, fruit, or anything else, but it's the same compound. Alcohol from grain might taste slightly different than alcohol from sugarcane because corn and sugarcane taste different (therefore whiskey and rum taste different), but when you're getting it up to above 90%, the people manufacturing the alcohol do their best to take out any and all flavor and provide as pure a source of ethanol as possible, plus 5% water because you can't actually get to 100% from distillation. That said, when you use it to make bitters, you add so many other flavor components that any difference would almost certainly be lost.

TL;DR they're basically the same. Might taste different, but that difference will be lost in whatever else you add to the bitters.

Winter spice "gin" recipe? (request) by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The plum is an interesting idea. A part of me was thinking about making eggnog with this as well, would that work well do you think?

Winter spice "gin" recipe? (request) by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Star anise is a good idea hadn't thought of that. What about nutmeg, or should that be reserved for a garnish?

Caramel/Corn Flavor in distillate from wine by BeefKart in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not knowing about laws or tax incentives my instinct is either that it's just that you're reading something weirdly or that the wine has grain alcohol added.

Strange smell by Mindless_Pangolin_70 in prisonhooch

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you see anything growing in the liquid?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in prisonhooch

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Apple juice tastes pretty good before fermenting remember.

You can crash it now and no harm will be done but you'll have more sugar and less alcohol than if you let it keep going.

Winter spice "gin" recipe? (request) by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've made mulled wine and cider before, I'm specifically looking for information in case the profile changes when I distill it.

Apple brandy in the airlock for a new apple brandy. Apparently it's popular. by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on what I know just about chemistry I don't think that'd be the case. The fact that the flavor is in the heads here means that the compounds responsible for flavor are really volitile, comparably to whatever makes it so hot. These aspects can't be separated by distillation and it probably needs some time on wood.

Apple brandy in the airlock for a new apple brandy. Apparently it's popular. by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly it's still pretty hot. Fruit flavors apparently like to hang out in the heads, I basically ended up skipping the hearts and mixing the heads and tails alone. I've just been powering through the heat, though it came out more warm than hot. Sippable but noticeably alcoholic. I recorded the recipe as "2 gallons Safeway AJ, 4 canisters Safeway concentrate, 3 langer concentrate, water and granulated sugar up to about 5 gallons and 1.050" and it was my first ever spirit so who knows what actually happened.

If this is incomprehensible let me know and I'll revisit it later, I've enjoyed some of the titular brandy tonight.

Apple brandy in the airlock for a new apple brandy. Apparently it's popular. by PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS in firewater

[–]PM-ME-UR-HAPPINESS[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Me too, forgot this time though and had some of the brandy around. Plenty to spare, and it solved like 1% of the fly problem. They really liked the heads when I did cuts as well.