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Question 0

Where do all the grains come from (except the malted barley)?

Answer 0

90% from New York

Question 1

How many gallons does a fermentation tank hold?

Answer 1

3000

Question 2

What kind of mill do they use?

Answer 2

A Roskamp roller mill.

Question 3

What farms do they source their grains from?

Answer 3

Tan tills and Cochecton

Question 4

How many bags of grain and what kind in Four Grain?

Answer 4

10 bags corn
4 bags wheat
2 bags rye
2 bags malted barley

Question 5

What percentage of grains in the Four Grain?

Answer 5

54% corn
22% wheat
12% rye
12% malted barley

Question 6

How many bags of grain in the bourbon?

Answer 6

16 bags corn

2 bags malt

Question 7

How long does the first mash take and at what temperature?

Answer 7

1 hour at 180 degrees

Question 8

How long and at what temp does the second mash take?

Answer 8

150 degrees for 1 hour.

Question 9

What is another name for the second mash tank?

Answer 9

Purgatory

Question 10

What temperature is the wort cooled to before fermentation?

Answer 10

85-90 degrees

Question 11

What two kinds of yeast are used in the fermentation process?

Answer 11

Distillers and brewers yeast

Question 12

How long does it take to ferment the wort?

Answer 12

5-7 days

Question 13

How many gallons of water are added to each mash?

Answer 13

500

Question 14

How many batches of mash (or cooks) are added to each fermenter?

Answer 14

5 cooks

Question 15

What temperature is the wort when undergoing fermentation?

Answer 15

90 degrees

Question 16

What brix is the wort before fermentation?

Answer 16

15-20 brix

Question 17

What is the brix after fermentation?

Answer 17

6-8 brix

Question 18

What percentage of alcohol is the liquid after fermentation?

Answer 18

10-15% alcohol

Question 19

How are the stills heated?

Answer 19

Steam

Question 20

What is the first distillation called?

Answer 20

Stripping

Question 21

What is the second distillation called?

Answer 21

Rectification

Question 22

What is the liquid from the first distillation called?

Answer 22

Low wines

Question 23

What proof is the middle cut?

Answer 23

170 proof ish

Question 24

What brand still do they use?

Answer 24

Carl

Question 25

What happens to the heads?

Answer 25

They throw them away

Question 26

What happens to the tails?

Answer 26

They are redistilled

Question 27

What percentage of alcohol do

low wines have?

Answer 27

45% abv

Question 28

What proof is the spirit when going into barrel?

Answer 28

114 proof or 57% abv

Question 29

By law, bourbon has to be what percentage of corn?

Answer 29

51%

Question 30

By law, bourbon cannot be higher than what proof/abv?

Answer 30

160 proof or 80% abv

Question 31

What temperature does alcohol vaporize?

Answer 31

172 F

Question 32

What is the most common barrel size at Hudson?

Answer 32

26 gallons

Question 33

How long does it take to age one gallon of spirit?

Answer 33

30 days

Question 34

What two brands of barrels do they use?

Answer 34

Kelvin

Black Swan

Question 35

At what temperature do you calculate density?

Answer 35

60 F

Question 36

What proof and abv do they bottle at?

Answer 36

92 proof

46 abv

Question 37

What licenses do they carry?

Answer 37

A1- Farm Distillers License

DD license

Question 38

What license did Ralph Erenzo help create?

Answer 38

The DD license

Question 39

When did Ralph Erenzo purchase the property?

Answer 39

2001

Question 40

How many gallons can they produce under each license?

Answer 40

35,000

Question 41

What is a proof gallon?

Answer 41

A gallon of spirit at 50% abv

Question 42

When was the Grist Mill built?

Answer 42

1788

Question 43

What is the proof after the second distillation?

Answer 43

140-150 proof

Question 44

What alcohol percentage is the middle cut?

Answer 44

85% abv