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"Hi all hopefully you can help me with my questions. I have been reading the forum a fair bit and have found a lot of answers to questions but at the moment still have some un answered questions. (sorry if there are posts covering any of my questions if you could be kind enough and post a link)
1) Is there a site/spreadsheet that I could use to find out how much per bottle it will cost me to make?
2) Do you think a novice could produce homemade Vodka that you could sip strait and love it (want to make Vodka then soak fruit etc in it)
3) This question for people that live in Austrila. Have you had any problems ordering parts/stills etc from customs/law enforcement?
Thank you all for your time
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Welcome.mate, you need to do a run, then go back.and add up what the wash/still/gas/electricity cost you and work.it from there. I do rum mainly, it's about $3 ~ $4 per litre. Regards to vodka, absolutely, when you learn how to do it properly you will never go to a bottle.shop again. I havnt brought booze for about 10 months now, tastes like.cats piss haha. I'm in Australia, are you talking buying over seas?. I've built all my own stills and get parts local.
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" Originally Posted by: Pauley  Hi all hopefully you can help me with my questions. I have been reading the forum a fair bit and have found a lot of answers to questions but at the moment still have some un answered questions. (sorry if there are posts covering any of my questions if you could be kind enough and post a link)
1) Is there a site/spreadsheet that I could use to find out how much per bottle it will cost me to make?
2) Do you think a novice could produce homemade Vodka that you could sip strait and love it (want to make Vodka then soak fruit etc in it)
3) This question for people that live in Austrila. Have you had any problems ordering parts/stills etc from customs/law enforcement?
Thank you all for your time
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Party Paul #1) No...there are toooooooooo many variables to this hobby. (the recipe you use-the still you use-the way YOU distill your hooch) #2) You bet thats why we are all here, to make something thats tastey and cheap. Just dont sip your product at 160 proof --yuck!!!!! 80-100 is preffered. #3) Sorry thats one I cant give an opinion on cause I'm in the US."
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Yea googe I was meaning overseas. Not sure if I want to risk making my own could end up as a Darwin award lol. Thank you both for your reply's am gaining more confidence to spend most of the money I get back from the tax man this year. Was wondering what the vodka would be called if you soaked it in oak? Would it still be called vodka. Want to spend alot more time reading this fourm+ others be for I start
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Hi Pauley, I agree with the rest. I just finished running my first vodka run and even without carbon filtering it is great. I probably won't even bother filtering it. As far as oaking it I can't see how oak flavored vodka would be very tasty. Yes the flavor of whisky is in part from the aging on oak but the grain bill has much to do with it. Good vodka is refluxed to get the flavor out. Whisky should be pot stilled to carry flavor over.
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Wasn't planing on using Oak but plan on experimenting and thought I would find out now if I need to call vodka something different depending on what you add after running it though the still. But it sounds like it's still called vodka.
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"Don't get hung up on ""official"" names ... just describe it ... most folks here will understand. We don't have to worry about the identity standards -- they're just artificial limitations that don't apply to us. Most folks here will know what you mean if you just call it an ""oaked neutral"" or something like that.
That said, it's helpful if you at least stick to the basics. That is, a whiskey is from mashed grain, bourbon if the grain bill is at least 51% corn, brandy from fruit, rum if from molasses or brown sugar, neutral from anything if the abv is high enough -- that sort-of thing. Even ""faux whiskey"" if it's a grain flavored sugar wash. That will at least help others know what you're talking about. Beyond that, it's mostly noise ... and doesn't really matter as long as it tastes good. :)"
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I've gotta agree with John Barleycorn on this one. Keep it simple. And describe it as such. If you're looking to impart flavor after the run, go for a "neutral" or vodka type spirit. I can't tell you what it's gonna cost YOU to make a batch of any given size, but I know for me, with all equipment paid for and built from scrap (so far), it costs me about $20 to make about 20 gallons of wash and that makes about 3 to 3.5 gallons of drinkable tasty shine. Now if you break that down, that works out to be about $6 a gallon or $1.58 per litre. Pretty cheap I'd say. Of course that's not including electricity/gas for distilling.
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