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Scotch: A Golden Dream (2019)
mkmikas 1 points 5 months ago.

yeah it was a little ambiguous.
distilling is a bit like alchemy though!

mikebcarguy 1 points 5 months ago.

I disagree, it just takes a few months reading on https://homedistiller.org/forum/ and a few months practice.
Remember, or, in case it’s not common knowledge, back during Prohibition most of the people who were poisoned? That was caused by the government adding poison to popular ethanol sources but not getting the word out.
Most people distilling on a small scale know to “toss your fores” or, foreshots (the first 250ml to come off the still) to avoid methanol and blindness (and, if you get methanol poisoning, the cure is ethanol.
It was good to see they spoke about “cuts” where he said they wanted the “hearts,” not the “heads,” or “tails” (unlike Jack where they mix it all together and try to filter out the nasty tasting stuff with charcoal).

The process they showed is called “rolling cuts” but at home we’d seperate the second or “spirit run” into twenty small mason jars, let them off-gas overnight loosely covered with coffee filters, then decide which to combine based on taste (starting at the end so as not to blow out your taste buds, and mixing with water toward the heads to open up the flavor). It’s not just hearts you want… that process is a little like alchemy!