Expected Efficiency Loss?

[Brew Cat]

found this
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/distilling-laws-by-state
apparently illegal in Texas and Florida
weird those are 2 states who pride themselves on being free
is pot legal there?

 

[Minbari]

Illegal but completely under the radar. No equipment necessary, unlike a still which is technically illegal to own, much less use, in most states. There is no limit on the abv of homebrewed beer or homemade wine, though there are natural limitations, of course. If your 10% beer jumped up to 20%, who would ever know how it happened? If you mixed grain alcohol in the same beer to boost the ABV, there'd be nothing illegal about that.
Distillation laws will eventually go away, I think. They're being challenged here and there. They remain in place pretty much to protect the industry and the tax revenue.

MO you can own your own home distillery. Make what ever you want as long as you aren't selling it. Can even put it in competitions

 

[Brew Cat]

I actually know more people that distill than homebrewers
There are also a lot of craft distilleries around here
CT gives incentives to breweries, wineries and distilleries just need to source local ingredients

 

[J A]

I actually know more people that distill than homebrewers
There are also a lot of craft distilleries around here
CT gives incentives to breweries, wineries and distilleries just need to source local ingredients

I think it's fairly easy to get permitted for distilling. You just have to have a dedicated facility that meets certain standards and adhere to any zoning regulations when it comes to having a tasting room. But it's a business, not a homebrewing-style thing. Maybe someday there'll be less regulation. Allowing distilling along with homebrewing makes perfect sense. If you can make 100 gallons of beer, seems like you should be able to turn part of that into whiskey if you want.

 

[Craigerrr]

miscreants

Oooh, using big words, fancy

 

[Zambi]

I have a Belgian double just finishing fermenting and wanted to brew a quad and dump it on the yeast cake (T-58). Still playing with the numbers thinking that I won't hit 1.117. Plan is to tone down the OG to hit 11% ABV by holding back on some of the sugar.

That's very much to the max alcohol tolerance of the yeast

 

[Civilian]

Ended up coming in at 1.095 with an extra half a gallon of wort in the fermenter.