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Post by alanankrett1 on Oct 2, 2019 21:02:32 GMT -5
Poitin is potato based, if I remember correctly The "Recipe" was sugar based I think
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Post by e knight on Oct 2, 2019 21:22:01 GMT -5
I personally would have loved to party with the Baldwin sisters. Right. You consume enough "recipe," and they'd look like the Kardashian sisters.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 21:32:25 GMT -5
You know I never realized the danger about the Recipe still being indoors. I mean stills are known to be explosive. Another thing that's interests me is if anyone suffered lead poisoning from drinking the Recipe? It appeared to me that the room the still was in was an add-on to the house..... Why lead poisoning ? Using a radiator as part of a still . Alcohol is a solvent. Running alcohol through a radiator will cause lead to leach from the radiator -- not only from the metal itself, but also from the soldered welds used to hold the radiator together. This can create lead-tainted moonshine, a dangerous cocktail that is nearly impossible to detect, but which can result in lead poisoning.
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Post by Johnny on Oct 2, 2019 22:04:25 GMT -5
Do you think the Baldwin sisters were tipsy most of the time or did they save the recipe for special occasions? It seemed to me they drank the recipe on special occasions, though on the show whenever someone came over, they made it social etiquette to share it. I believe the rest of the time, the sisters were nonindulgent.
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Post by Johnny on Oct 2, 2019 22:40:00 GMT -5
Poitin is potato based, if I remember correctly The "Recipe" was sugar based I think The original Poitin in Ireland used malted barley in the mash. but as cost and availability became a issue, they would shift to using treacle, rye or potatoes. The common denominator is breakdown & fermentation of digestible starch to sugar to alcohol. In Scotland, they malted barley in making Peatreek the forerunner of Scotch whiskey.
Moonshine used mainly barley, rye in their starter mash and subject to cost & availability they would shift to maize (corn) or sugar which is what we see the Baldwin's purchasing from Ike.
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Post by alanankrett1 on Oct 3, 2019 18:36:30 GMT -5
Hi Zadok. I am well aware of the starch and sugar fermentation. I was in the trade for over 20 years. The legal side of the trade that is. The Irish used potatoes for the starch ingredients because potatoes were rife for quite a while and very cost effective. Maize, barley etc in the brewing industry are there purely for flavouring as are hops. The flavouring comes from the phenols, poly-phenols, esthers etc. Not sure of the spellings or how rusty my knowledge on this subject is. It has been a long time. This is off the top of my head from pure life experience and am prepared to be corrected. I don't know how to google all of this. You might want to check up on it. Additionally, phenols, poly-phenols, esters don't need to be natural extracts anymore. They can be synthesized using spectrographs for chemical analysis. I had a certain amount of experience/knowledge from a brewery research laboratory in Surrey. Again, I am very rusty but it was a long time ago
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Post by Johnny on Oct 4, 2019 23:15:33 GMT -5
Hi Zadok. I am well aware of the starch and sugar fermentation. I was in the trade for over 20 years. The legal side of the trade that is. The Irish used potatoes for the starch ingredients because potatoes were rife for quite a while and very cost effective. Hi Alan, I believe you're confusing modern distillation with original Poitin in Ireland to which I was referring. From the 1500s up into the 1800s they used malted barley in the mash and also rye depending on availability. When these people came over to America and settled along the Appalachian mountains, they brought this tradition with them and developed moonshine distillation in America.
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Post by alanankrett1 on Oct 5, 2019 15:05:54 GMT -5
Hi Zadok. Ok. Understand where you are coming from now but in my defence you didn't give a time frame on your reference. However, you are correct in so much as potatoes were a more recent addition to the original "RECIPE". I have tried "GENUINE" (illegal) poitin. I would not recommend it. A bit akin to formaldehyde
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Post by alanankrett1 on Oct 31, 2019 5:05:42 GMT -5
Hi Zadok Smart phone won't let me click onto links
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Post by Johnny on Oct 31, 2019 7:26:14 GMT -5
Hi Zadok Smart phone won't let me click onto links It's ok, as i reread the procedures, it has to do with how to save the sour mash for additional runs. It is like saving starter for sour dough bread, need to be careful not to kill the yeast in the process.
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