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  • #496
    Re: Garden Geeks thread

    Originally posted by alfablue View Post
    except that when ripe, there is more sugar in grape juice than there is in corn beer. Grapes ferment to 10-14% ABV, cider and beer generally are lower. Even the high ones are just up to 10.

    So, in theory, my 5 gal of wine, I can get ~1/2 gal of fuel. Yea, fuel- that's the ticket.
    I was speaking to distilling (fuel/water), not wine or beer making.

    I can easily get ~20% ABV out of corn mash using quality ingredients, a little extra sugar, and turbo yeast. Just ran a batch last Saturday and got ~145 proof, er, I mean octane out of the main portion of the run.

    Plus the cleanup and the processing is easier out of corn or other grains than it is for fruit. *This is just for distilling it for fuel and not for making wine. Wine is a whole different thing.
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    • #497
      Re: Garden Geeks thread

      Originally posted by MattS View Post
      I was speaking to distilling (fuel/water), not wine or beer making.

      I can easily get ~20% ABV out of corn mash using quality ingredients, a little extra sugar, and turbo yeast. Just ran a batch last Saturday and got ~145 proof, er, I mean octane out of the main portion of the run.

      Plus the cleanup and the processing is easier out of corn or other grains than it is for fruit. *This is just for distilling it for fuel and not for making wine. Wine is a whole different thing.
      The problem is that one needs 200 proof to get the actual 115octane. Adding 25% water doesn't make it burn well.

      Well, there are places where 145poof would burn. but that's different physics.

      BTW, what yeast are you using that survives to 20% ABV? That's some healthy stuff. (adding sugar is cheating, IMHO)

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      • #498
        Re: Garden Geeks thread

        Originally posted by alfablue View Post
        BTW, what yeast are you using that survives to 20% ABV? That's some healthy stuff. (adding sugar is cheating, IMHO)
        Still Spirits Triple Distilled Turbo Yeast. They claim up to 18% but I can get 20% out of it. That or my hydrometer is way off which I don't believe it is.

        I just add a little bit of corn sugar to help it along when I use turbo yeast. I don't always use it and only when making a corn mash.
        My Four Favorite teams:
        RIT and anyone who is beating Canisius
        Cornell and anyone who is beating Harvard

        If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison

        I am not afraid of terrorism, and I want the Government to stop being afraid on my behalf. I understand that it will not be possible to stop all terrorist acts. I am not afraid!!!!

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        • #499
          Re: Garden Geeks thread

          Should probably move this discussion to either the cars thread or drinking thread, as I'm very interested in distilling stuff.

          Like does the sugar and yeast change the basic taste of bourbon.

          But I can ask here if you grow your own corn. Some varmit ate All of mine.

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          • #500
            Re: Garden Geeks thread

            Everything affects taste.
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            • #501
              Re: Garden Geeks thread

              Originally posted by alfablue View Post
              Should probably move this discussion to either the cars thread or drinking thread, as I'm very interested in distilling stuff.

              Like does the sugar and yeast change the basic taste of bourbon.

              But I can ask here if you grow your own corn. Some varmit ate All of mine.
              We probably should move to the drinking thread. I'll answer your questions there the best I can.
              My Four Favorite teams:
              RIT and anyone who is beating Canisius
              Cornell and anyone who is beating Harvard

              If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison

              I am not afraid of terrorism, and I want the Government to stop being afraid on my behalf. I understand that it will not be possible to stop all terrorist acts. I am not afraid!!!!

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              • #502
                Re: Garden Geeks thread

                A fascinating discussion at this link about whether plants can communicate using sound.
                "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

                "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

                "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

                "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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                • #503
                  Re: Garden Geeks thread

                  Just picked my first batch of summer squash from my second planting. Did a 2nd planting of zukes also just 3 weeks ago and it looks like I'll be harvesting them by late Sept. to beginning of October.

                  Tomatoes and eggplant still going very strong. Cukes still there, but slowing down considerably. Recent plantings of spinach and beets won't be long til harvest.

                  'Eavesdropped the BC forum in USCHO. A range of intellects over there. Mostly gentlemen, but a couple of coarse imbeciles' - academic_index, a Brown fan

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                  • #504
                    Re: Garden Geeks thread

                    Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
                    A fascinating discussion at this link about whether plants can communicate using sound.
                    So if a tree falls in the forest and there are no people around, it does make a sound?

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                    • #505
                      Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                      Everything affects taste.
                      Depends if you're running a pot or reflux still.
                      I wish I am able to live long enough to do all the things I was attributed to.

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                      • #506
                        Re: Garden Geeks thread

                        Watching the bees (out the window while watching the Goofs) today has been amazing.

                        I have these white flowers that bloomed (garlicky smell from the plant) and a bunch of echinacea. There must be two dozen bees on this small patch of flowers and it's been that way for hours. Just honeybees.
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College Hockey 6       College Football 0
BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                        Originally posted by SanTropez
                        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                        Originally posted by Kepler
                        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                        • #507
                          Re: Garden Geeks thread

                          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                          Watching the bees (out the window while watching the Goofs) today has been amazing.

                          I have these white flowers that bloomed (garlicky smell from the plant) and a bunch of echinacea. There must be two dozen bees on this small patch of flowers and it's been that way for hours. Just honeybees.
                          I have a big herb garden with thyme, oregano, lots of allium, chives. When the sun is out, midday it looks like it is one heaving mass of flying bees, various other stinging, buzzing insects of all shapes and sizes. SOme really weird bugs pollinate things.

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                          • #508
                            Re: Garden Geeks thread

                            I think the white flowers in my garden are allium.
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                            Originally posted by SanTropez
                            May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                            Originally posted by Kepler
                            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                            • #509
                              Re: Garden Geeks thread

                              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                              I think the white flowers in my garden are allium.
                              They may be garlic chives which are in the allium family

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                              • #510
                                Re: Garden Geeks thread

                                We harvested two canteloupes today. What a pleasant surprise!
                                "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

                                "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

                                "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

                                "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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