Does LME make for a good Whiskey? 

Ansis, Always look forward to your comment, I learn so much from it, yes fruit is a tricky one, that is why I keep the level of sugar from fruit to a max of 30% this reduces that influence and still gives great flavor.

@@BEAVERDIY Yes, we share our knowledge and it makes us wiser! I think it`s great! 👍

@@Ansis99 absolutely, keeps the comments coming

@@BEAVERDIY :)

Thank you David

Yeah, won't try it again, super interesting to think the flavor changes so much

Hi Steve, UJSSM has more flavor after gen2 than the LME,

Thank you Cameron.

Awesome glad I could help.

Yeah Brother, Crazy to think, I thought because it is like a reduction of a wort the flavors will be super concentrated, but it was like watered down whiskey almost like a poorly made UJSSM

@@BEAVERDIY Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Glad you tested it side by side!

@@BeardedBored Thank you brother, hoping for a better result or atleast a higher yield but let down on both..

@@BEAVERDIY But now this one can be put to bed. We know now that if you want to use LME you have to use some specialty grains for steeping to boost the flavor profile like a partial grain beer kit. I consider that valuable info for sure!

@@BEAVERDIY I am wondering about a Hybrid of the 2, BUT adding the LME to the Mashing process! It seems that (maybe) they may not have completed the conversion of the mash, when making the LME. (Just a thought to try if you still have extra of both.)

Hi Brian, Busy with a few designs will post link as soon as I can.

Stephen, that is a super question did not even think of that, maybe do a slight remash.

Hi Garry, On the LME I got 1.3l @ 75% on the All grain I got 2.4l @ 75%. The LME was a difficult run had to adjust the reflux alot, and the vapor speed was fast to get eth out.

Glad the LME was sponsored as the 5l of LME would have been crazy expensive

True that

Hi Dan, Original gravity of the 20l wash was 1.090 went down to 1.060, after double volume, gravity dropped to 1.040, fermentation started again and only dropped to 1.030. So yes if think you are correct the extremely low ABV was the cause of the lack of flavor, if I am to do LME again I will use it as 50% of the sugar source, so do a partial mash with mainly steeping grains for flavor and some base malt for some conversion. But in all the price of LME and the flavor I got from it even with a Lacto layer was pretty disappointing.

@@BEAVERDIYI figured the LME to be about 32GP/pound / gallon (but I messed up metric conversion..) so we are good there. I would have expected double the volume to halve the SG which what confuses with your follow on numbers. It would be useful to have the 'volume adjusted' (constant scale) numbers. I'm guessing you got about 35-40 points of conversion but in my limited experience slightly sweet mashes can contribute nicely to flavors too. This hobby has way too many variables leading to way to many mysteries!

@@danthemann From the research I did I also had the same number 32GP, and yes my thought was if I double the volume my gravity should drop by half, it might have been a false reading becuase of CO2 in original wash or that because the wash left for close to 3 weeks while gravity slowly dropped, and some separation occurred with "lighter" liquid sitting ontop, and when I increased the volume and got all mixed up well and degassed the gravity climbed. Bot 100% sure what happend pH was stable, OG was within yeast range, nutrient was more than enough as I have used the same packet of premix before in a straight sugar wash with only that as nutrient and if fermented to dry twice. My only conclusion is that some unfermentable things are in LME, if you look to the beer industry few to no beers ferment to dry they all end on between 1.020 to 1.010, so with full blown LME that effect was co pounded and thus we were left with a gravity of 1.030. Will have to do a few more test batches to see if I can find the path to full ferment. What I want to try is use a all grain backset and spent grain LME run, what do you think.

@@BEAVERDIY You plan to use the 'leftovers' from one run to flavor the next but with LME as the sugar? That sounds like the type of thing I like to do! I've done similar with sugar and had good results, not as good as the source batch but less cost (I'm cheap) and less waste than starting from scratch/backset. . Go for it!

How did you guess, busy trying to level up on production and vid quality, so big things coming soon,

@@BEAVERDIY love it. Can't wait to see more. Good luck!

@@BEAVERDIY Nice!

Will work the flavor on the LME was very lack luster.