Tennessee Whiskey / Bourbon, Jack Daniels by N1cod3mus on January 10, 2014
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Food Living Outside Play Technology Workshop Tennessee Whiskey / Bourbon, Jack Daniels by n1cod3mus on January 10, 2014 Table of Contents Tennessee Whiskey / Bourbon, Jack Daniels . 1 Intro: Tennessee Whiskey / Bourbon, Jack Daniels . 2 Step 1: Stuff you will need . 4 Step 2: Recipe, info and techical terms . 8 Step 3: Cooking the Mash . 9 Step 4: Moving the mash to the final fermenter and fermenting . 14 Step 5: Preparing to make charcoal . 20 Step 6: Making the charcoal . 24 Step 7: Making the filter with the charcoal . 30 Step 8: Charging the boiler and Distilling . 44 Step 9: Filtering the spirit . 59 Step 10: Aging the spirit . 61 Step 11: Proofing the spirit . 67 Step 12: Bottling . 70 Step 13: Creating the Label . 73 File Downloads . 78 Step 14: Labeling . 79 Step 15: Sealing . 86 Related Instructables . 96 Advertisements . 97 Comments . 97 http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennessee-Whiskey-Bourbon-Jack-Daniels/ Author:n1cod3mus Chris Fry Design I'm a web developer, IT engineer, Graphic Designer. I have a creative nature and an over reactive imagination which is perfect for instructables. Intro: Tennessee Whiskey / Bourbon, Jack Daniels I wanted to make Tennessee Whiskey and Kentucky Bourbon is not much different its just a slightly different recipe and you miss out one of the steps that you would use when making the Tennessee Whiskey. A lot of my friends drink Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey and I already have built a still, the instructable is here for how I built it, you will need one like this which is a Pot Still. The point is I was looking for a project to keep me busy and even though I don't drink JD my self I thought I would have a stab at making it my self just for the challenge. there is a lot of information from peoples how to recipes for bourbon or Tennessee Whiskey but I wanted JD so I spent over a month most of my evenings looking in to how to make it and trying to find as much information about JD's actual method and I found various articles and video snippets with fragments of information from people who work at the JD Distillery. Thanks to that information I have gathered I have come up with a way to produce this my self at home as close to how they make it as is practically possible for my self. Just a bit of a heads up because I wanted to document this so well I have taken tons of pictures, so there is a lot of images but I am hoping that wont be a bad thing as they are all good quality. well except the video on charcoal which went weird at the beginning because of youtubes codecs for some reason. This instructable is the result of a few months of research, over 2 months of experimenting, a botched attempt or 2 and a fair sum of money just to get it right...... and i don't even drink the stuff! You don't have to spend a lot of money your self to make it, the ingredients and the process does not cost a lot if you have the equipment already, but I had to do a few runs and I spent a fair bit extra to put it in nice bottles and present it well which can be great for gifts. I would also like to thank the help of the guys over at www.homedistiller.com forums who pointed me in the right direction now and then when I got stuck. http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennessee-Whiskey-Bourbon-Jack-Daniels/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennessee-Whiskey-Bourbon-Jack-Daniels/ Step 1: Stuff you will need the ingredients for the mash Cracked Corn also known as kibbled corn or kibbled maize. I got mine from a feed store online which you can see the details in the picture, I'm in the UK so this was the only place I could get it. Rye, I used rye flakes as thats what I could get hold of, in an ideal world you would use ground rye, but i don't have a grinder. got my flakes from a health food shop. Barley Malt, or Pale Malt which is the same thing. you can make your own Barley Malt by putting barley in to a cloth sack and submerging it in water for a few days and letting it sprout then removing it when the shoots are about 1 inch long, dry it then grind it. but why bother when you can just buy it. got this on ebay but they sell it in homebrew stores. Yeast, I used a yeast called EC-1118 which is a wine / campaign yeast but it was recommended by white labs as one that can be used, if you want to white labs do supply 2 yeasts that can be used as well one called Tennessee Whiskey Yeast and the other is American Bourbon Yeast. they also do an American whiskey yeast. in the UK you can use the wilkinsons wine yeast which is EC-1118 even though it doesnt say that it is, i emailed them to find out and it is EC-1118. otherwise lalvin make a EC- 1118 and it can be bought in most homebrew shops The amounts of these vary depending on what you are making so have a look at the recipe's on the next step. filtering and aging Sugar Maple Charcoal, or sugar maple chips which you can make in to charcoal which I will show you later in this instructable. this is for the filtering, if you want to make Kentucky Bourbon you wont be needing this as its not filtered through Charcoal. I had to use maple chips and make my own charcoal, in the UK sugar maple is VERY hard to get hold of and expensive when you can get it. I got mine on ebay. Jack Dainel's Smoking Chips, or white oak chips which you can toast and char your self, ideally you want American oak if you can get it.bought mine on amazon from a UK supplier. http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennessee-Whiskey-Bourbon-Jack-Daniels/ Equipment Scales Cooking thermometer / Probe 2 X 25L Fermenter with Airlock, optional temperature probe a wooden cooking spoon an extra long spoon a Pot Still, Ideally a copper one if you have one, but they are expensive to build do I just have a copper column on a stainless steel boiler. Large Saucepan, I used a 6L saucepan 2.5L paint can or a couple of them, you only need these if you have to make your own maple charcoal a clean / new pillow case or tea towel or cheese cloth a colander wire or a wire coat hanger to hold the colander on the fermenter a carbouy or large glass bottle to hold the distilled spirit. a 1" PVC tube about 5ft long, only if you are making Tennessee Whiskey and are using the charcoal. sterilizing agent from a home brew shop a kettle for topping up Bottling and Labeling (optional) some nice looking bottles a design or design software to make one some cheese wax some corks from the home brew shop a utility knife a small saucepan and bowl and some M3 spray mount Image Notes 1. Barley Malt 2. Rye Flakes 3. ec-1118 yeast http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennessee-Whiskey-Bourbon-Jack-Daniels/ Image Notes 1. Maple Chips 2. Jack Daniels Smoking Chips Image Notes 1. this is where I got my corn from in the UK Image Notes 1. big bowl for corn 2. small bowl for the rye 3. Medium bowl for the barley malt 4. scales for weighing, duh! Image Notes 1. 1" PVC pipe, new http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennessee-Whiskey-Bourbon-Jack-Daniels/ Image Notes 1. 6L saucepan http://www.instructables.com/id/Tennessee-Whiskey-Bourbon-Jack-Daniels/ Step 2: Recipe, info and techical terms there is 2 recipes depending on weather you are making Tennessee Whiskey or Kentucky Bourbon, the Bourbon uses more Rye and less barley than the Tennessee Whiskey. Tennessee Whiskey (Jack Daniels Recipe, from the distillery) 5200g (80%) Corn 800g (12%) Barley Malt 500g (8%) Rye Flakes 25% back set from the still water, ideally spring water 1 packet of EC-1118 yeast Kentucky Bourbon 5200g (80%) Corn 500g (8%) Barley Malt 800g (12%) Rye Flakes 25% back set from the still water, ideally spring water 1 packet of EC-1118 yeast I gathered from the research that I have done that the increase in rye in the Kentucky Bourbon makes it a little more spicy on the palette. But with less rye the Tennessee whiskey is slightly sweeter. ok some information on the yeast, Jack Daniel's has their own yeast which I could not for love nor money find out what strain it was, most distillery's closely guard their yeast strains. by using a different yeast the flavor will be effected but there is not much I can do about this. As i said on the previous step there is some yeasts produced by white labs which have been designed for Bourbons and Tennessee whiskey, I choose the EC-1118 as it is very easy to get hold of, the ones from white labs you can get from home brew shops but I have found they will only special order it in for you and I just wanted to get on with it. I may try them out at some point to see if they do make a difference on the flavor of the produced spirit.