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yes correct, not even using the still now. when boiler was first installed we tested it and worked great. we did our first mash yesterday and cannnot heat up. Mash Tun is right next to boiler, Still is 40ft away and works fine last time we tried it. filling it with water now to test its heat up. This is all first time use

I have a 600 gallon mash tun and a 600 gallon still, they are heated by a brand new installed 15hp / 15psi fulton boiler. i can heat the still just fine but the mash tun will not heat above 126°F. We cleaned the steam traps blew out the heating jackets with water to make sure they are not clogged. We left the boiler on over night and it di not rise in the slightest only maintained the 126°F I initially got the water up to 130 °F and put in my corn, after that all the problems with heat rise I need help

Tom, disregard previous i see you said start with 528 gallons of water. i am not steam injecting, we have steam jackets heating from outside in. i am just curious how you came with the 528 gallons as 2lbs per gallon should be 548?

Tom one thing not in your description is amount of water. were you basing this on 2lbs per gallon?

We are in Brookshire, TX just outside of Houston, we will be headed up to Milwaukee area soon for wife's high school reunion, will try to come check you guys out.

Hey Tom again thanks and your advice makes great sense. i am buying locally sourced Texas grain and the corn is 56lbs per bushel. i will scale as i go. i do have huge agitators on my mash tun and fermenters so i should be able to scale, but will tread the waters first. Check us out https://www.facebook.com/ShireDistilling/videos/1151935854947206/ Thank you again for all your help CHeers!!! btw what distillery are you and where? would love to check you guys out some day

where is this located?

the first photo looks colorful. is that just an illusion of the photograph? are they all mohagany tops with white synthetic corks

how many do you have and where in Texas?

my goal is a 600 gallon mash of 75/21/4 Corn/rye/barley and an OG of 1.076 which when fermented out all the way will yield me a 10% ABV wash my problem is i don't have a calculator for corn

Adam, when using brewers friend, what do you select for the corn? do you use the flaked corn as reference and if so how accurate is it.There are several of the programs out there but none seem tailored for distilling. yes the rye and barley we can use to calculate but the corn is the odd thomas

Tom, so most mash calculators are designed for making beer not spirits and do not support or give yields for corn. 1st question does a calculator exist for distillers? Also what you wrote here for my 600 gallon system should that yield me a 1.065 starting gravity? if so that only has an alcohol potential of 8.58%ABV. i want to have a 10%ABV potential, so how to scale that?

So $350 for 1,000lbs is that correct? Also, how is it delivered in super sacks or individual 55lb sacks? last question can we get it already hammer milled?

what volume are these bottles 750ml?

Tom, that is a lot for me to digest and learn. I really appreciate this explanation. i really need to test my system once finished hooking it up. Just need to finish glycol lines and electric then will see if i can make all this work as well as it does on my 50 gallon system So back to my original question is there a program that will do this for me?

so according to https://www.rackers.org/calcs.shtml 's can i mash it, this will not fit in my 600 gallon mash tun at 1.25 qt/lb . 1800lbs of grain at 1 qt/lb would require 594 gallon mash tun capacity. A grain in mash is thick, will it be ok to do 1 qt/lb???

So before my 600 gallon system i was doing a 75/21/4 ~ corn/rye/barley on a smaller 50 gallon system. My background in mashing came from the brewing industry where we mashed at 150°F for 60-90 minutes. i used promash to calculate my mashes. so now that i have moved into the big boy world i am having issues scaling with this. Knowing this grain ratio, having it hammer milled, and wanting a target of 600 gallons: 1. what specific gravity should i target? previously i been targeting 1.076 OG after mash to get to a 10%ABV after fermentation 2. What do most of you target for your mash for whiskeys 3. How would you design this above? Promash and Beer Smith is for Beer. Is there something similar for Distilling. i use HoochWare and they have a recipe section but no calculators to help me with mash design. In beer we did not mash corn only grains. there is a grain entry in promash for flaked maize, flaked rye, and flaked barley; is that the same for target specific gravity calculations? 4. See my attached screenshot from promash based on 3lbs per gallon with these potential specific gravities at 75% brewhouse efficiencies i should be at 11%ABV Any help advice would be greatly appreciated

so let me ask it like this, i have a 600 gallon mash tun. i am told the standard for a 10% wash is 2lbs per gallon. That said i will need 1200lbs of grain correct? now with a quarts per pound ration of 1.25 that will require 375 gallons of water according to rackers.org can i mash it, my 600 gallon fermenter can handle 1500 lbs of grain and at 1:25 qts/lb i will have a 588 gallon capacity. now the question is. What would target OG be of that mash?

what is the grain bill and how much per tote? is this aged?

So how do you calculate how much water? i get the 2lbs grain per gallon. But lets say you want to make a 600 gallon mash. how much strike water to start with? if you start by heating 600 gallons then you add 1200lbs of grain , you will have much more than 600 total gallons in that tank. in the brewers world there are calculators for this. i have not found one for mashing corn, rye and barley. Am i missing something?

curious, how do you calculate how much and what types of enzymes to use? is 21% rye and 4% barley not enough to do the trick?

so with this 2lbs per gallon formula; using mgpi's famous 75/21/4 Corn/Rye/Barley as an example. In order to yield 100 gallons you would need 200lbs of grain. So 150lbs corn/42lbs rye /8lbs barley, is this correct? Also, barley is vague term, what is most common barley used in making whiskey?

So to address video part 3, it ends with the sample to be tested. So basically as I understand it by watching you are distilling out the alcohol from your product then taking a reading of the distillate to see what proof or abv it is? Am I correct? So a laboratory still, any recommendations where to buy what I will need?

what size barrels?

Meerkat, thank you again and I will communicate via the support address going further. Thank you for all your help, I am sure all reading greatly appreciate it.