JohninWV Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Just wondering... How do you all get you first receipes? Can you open the doors with a receipe that's fairly proven and start making great product or is it mostly trial and error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald R Outterson Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 John, Standard classicial formulas are in all basic distilling text books and in most cases defined by Federal law, so the range is not always as large one might first think. Best regards, Don Just wondering...How do you all get you first receipes? Can you open the doors with a receipe that's fairly proven and start making great product or is it mostly trial and error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgpoff Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 We bought our recipes off of EBAY. Neither of us had relatives that were out of the prison system long enough to develop their own products. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckrogstad Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Just wondering...How do you all get you first receipes? Can you open the doors with a receipe that's fairly proven and start making great product or is it mostly trial and error? Contact a distillery whose products you respect and ask them to consult. Or, wing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absaroka Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 We bought our recipes off of EBAY. Neither of us had relatives that were out of the prison system long enough to develop their own products.Don Then Don tried to sell them to us for far more than what he paid for in the auction. When we got the recipe and it was a business card for DRinc, it was a little disappointing. In all seriousness, recipe's for anything are subjective to what you like or want out of the product. How many different ways are there to make chocolate chip cookies? Dammit, now I'm hungry. You get the idea..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 All joking aside, start home brewing beer. Seriously. Learn about brewing, it's a fundamental part of distilling...and perfectly legal to do in your home. Hard cider is the easiest to start with: Apple juice, some yeast, and a little extra nutrients, and you're off and running. You're now halfway to apple brandy. The better the cider you can make, the better the brandy will be when you get to the distilling stage. Learn to make beer and you're halfway to making whisky....wine becomes brandy, and so on. It's one of those "walk before you run, Grasshopper" kind of things. It sounds kinda cryptic and maybe a little dismissing at this point, but you'll be learning a valuable fundamental...and you get beer from it in the mean time. How many lessons can do that for ya? Yes, I've over simplified, but you gotta start somewhere. Cheers, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Forester Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Don- Which texts do you refer to? I have tons of texts, but none with any real, useful, formulas or recipes. John,Standard classicial formulas are in all basic distilling text books and in most cases defined by Federal law, so the range is not always as large one might first think. Best regards, Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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