• Hardware Relating To Distillation OF Spirits

  Blue specks found in 9-year-old brandy

  Posted by cranky on April 20, 2024 at 9:08 pm

  I’m really not sure where to put this one, so I figured here is as good as any of the rest.This is more of a curiosity than anything else but… I took this week off as my spring vacation. The weather has finally turned warm and dry so I got a wild hair and decided to clean at the garage…It’s not really going well While doing that I decided I might try to help out the neighbor and cut down the blackberries and stuff that has grown up on my side of his fence over the past 6 years. So I went up into the attic to look for a hedge trimmer I may or may not remember having… I didn’t find it I did however find a lot of stashed alcohol that has accumulated over the years. One of the things I found was this jar that someone (can’t remember who) sent me 8 or 9 years ago.

  

  My though is to just filter them out and not really worry about it but I’d like to hear everybody’s opinions on this.A message to new membersWe want you to be safe and succeed so start hereMy Apple Brandy Recipe

  NZChris replied 9 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  NZChris

  Member

  April 21, 2024 at 12:17 am

  Chuck it in the feints collection

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  MooseMan

  Member

  April 21, 2024 at 7:19 am

  Looks like copper salts to me cranky, I’d pour it through a filter to remove them and add it to feints for a re-run too.Make Booze, not War!

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  Demy

  Member

  April 21, 2024 at 12:36 pm

  I also think it’s the copper here…don’t drink directly but as recommended distill again after filtering.

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  cranky

  Member

  April 22, 2024 at 11:42 pm

  I agree it’s likely copper salts that settled out. There isn’t much left in the jar so it’s probably not enough to bother with.A message to new membersWe want you to be safe and succeed so start hereMy Apple Brandy Recipe

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  Yummyrum

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  April 24, 2024 at 12:54 pm

  Jezz, I’d be curious .Maybe filter it if you must , but I’d have to have a taste ….at least .My recommended goto .wiki/index.ph … ion_Theory

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  cranky

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  April 24, 2024 at 3:53 pm

  I was kind of thinking the same thing A message to new membersWe want you to be safe and succeed so start hereMy Apple Brandy Recipe

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  NZChris

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  April 25, 2024 at 7:45 am

  It is poorly made product. I’d guess it’s from a newbie who was proud to have made something, probably a single pass through a pot still.Use your nose to appreciate it as best as you can, it might smell very nice, but I know that you have a lot of product in your collection that is safer to drink, so why bother tasting it.I’ve recently ‘downsized’ my ‘library’ of other distiller’s pride and joys by running them with my feints. I have more shelf space for my own experiments now.

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