Hello from North Central Iowa

[SteveDodds]

I have been homebrewing since 2005. I have had a long hiatus of about 2 years and recently decided to get back into it. I grow my own tobacco and make my own chew so I decided I might as well go back to making my own booze too. After reading through many posts on here over the last week I have started a batch of hard cider. It is my first. As I type this it is just a bubbling away. Thinking I might try to do that fractional freezing/distilling thing. But maybe not. Anyhow there seems to be a rather large concentration of very experienced brewers on here so I decided to join up.

Merry brewing to all and to all a good night.

 

[yeahfairly]

Hey SteveDodds!
I am new as well.... but Welcome. I would like to hear more on your adventures in tobacco growing! I am looking into distillation as well. I have been brewing for a while but if I could distill my own Vodka and grow my own tobacco I wouldn't need the rest of society (lol)! Total off grid potential in that!!!!

 

[SteveDodds]

This year my tobacco growing hasn't been very good. The weather has not been nice and I have been attacked by bugs pretty bad. Last year I had an awesome crop. I ended up with over 20 pounds of chew. This year I will end up with about 10 pounds. Growing tobacco is quite simple. If you can grow tomatoes where you are at then you can grow tobacco.

 

[thatjonguy]

Hi Steve! Welcome to forum!

As a side note, any talk of distillation is not allowed on HBT.

 

[SteveDodds]

Hi Steve! Welcome to forum!

As a side note, any talk of distillation is not allowed on HBT.

Does this include the fractional freezing thing?

 

[thatjonguy]

Eisbock is generally fine, although there usually is a little bit of a debate between us and the government. But as I recall, the TTB issued a letter stating it was fine for homebrewers; known as freeze concentrating.

When people start talking about distilled spirits is when threads get locked.