International Spirit Makers Challenge: South Africa VS USA

The Bearded Legend @bearedandbored himself challenged me to the first international spirit challenge.
Link to Beared's Video
• How to Make Pineapple ...
My ingredients given to me by the legend were:
Ginger
Chillies
Chocolate Cake jip chillies
Jip we sparged a cake......
#BeardedAndBored​ #BeaverDIY

[@jamesramey3549]

Sorry I was one of those that voted on the ingredients. You did a great job with them. It was nice seeing both videos of how you both incorporated the ingredients.

[@BeardedBored]

He's a machine. 7 sparges:-)

[@ironmck9826]

Bearded sent me. He totally screwed you here good on you going full cake and not taking the easy way out!Cool channel can't wait to see more.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Iron, Welcome to the channel, hope you enjoy it over here. Yes bearded did pull out all the stops... was a crazy 😜 project, never thought I will add cake to my list of ingredients

[@Backdaft94]

Came here from B&B, awesome job distilling a chocolate cake!!!

[@mrd3863]

Sparge a cake........words I never thought I'd hear

[@BEAVERDIY]

Me too, but the bearded legend is a crazy one...

[@Honorablediscord2]

Thanks Bearded & Bored for the introduction to one more great channel to learn from

[@xitwound50cal11]

Am a fan of Bearedandbored , Stillit and Barley and hops . Now a fan of yours .

[@Bigninjon]

4:10 lizard on the beam! Lol

[@BeardedBored]

Sharp eyes!

[@stevevet3652]

You guys are both great. If anything, your shows are extremely entertaining. Thanks for the effort.

[@mauistevebear]

you ate the clear winner here, considering your challenge, distilling a chocolate cake! you're a genius! I'd keep a jar on my mantle piece...a fitting trophy!

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Steve, Thanks brother, was a super hard challenge, beared had a bigger challenge with the combined ingredients list as the a lot of the ingredients are great candidates to stall a fermentation.

[@sheldoniusRex]

Beaver is the clear winner because of the time rule. But I think he just might have been the winner anyway for having been the mad lad who fermented and distilled a freaking cake.

[@LannyX2]

If butter was the oil that you used to make the cake and iceing you can flash chill the top of the mash to get the butter to harden up so it can be removed easily.

[@hannesdewit6340]

Well done,Beaver I thought you did excellent with what you had to work with. Liked that massive cake you baked.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Hannes, WIth the amount of sugar needed had to make a massive cake... Thank you for the comment

[@Rubberduck-tx2bh]

This should be an actual show! Only problem is getting your end product across international borders for the taste test...

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Jason, You are right this needs to become a standing challenge, we need to look at getting independent tasters to judge the end results

[@vossierebel]

I love watching both of you! This was fun! So... seems Beaver got his cake and ate it!! Lucky lad! Two bearded dudes... neither boring - always up for the challenge - and the fun! 😁🥃😂🥃😈 Have a lekker day!!

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Vossie, This was a great experience so much fun working with the legend himself...

[@solocaretaker2034]

Oh no!! Let’s get ready to rumble. Please no wye gouging or low blows Have fun !! Crazy ingredients!!

[@BeardedBored]

LoL:-)

[@TheSilentWonder]

Ma se Porsche! 4kg of sugar! Boet, you looking for a diabetic meltdown there 🤣🤣🤣

[@fj73crusier19]

awsome...lol

[@marcelcrous1141]

I think you meant South Africa vs US-Ain't-Shit! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 #GingaNinja! Even his beard is more majestic... 😀 Well done to both of you, awesome competition, great watch! Can't wait for the re-match.

[@quatre1559]

Love this challenge

[@rickmilkovic]

Cool dual release

[@SyBernot]

LOL same intro for a second I thought B&B pulled the ol switch a roo and sent me back to his vid for another watch.

[@BeardedBored]

LOL!

[@SyBernot]

@@BeardedBored I honestly thought from your vid you have him a duck. I'm glad it was cake.

[@BeardedBored]

@@SyBernot There's not enough sugar in a duck.

[@SyBernot]

@@BeardedBored Thank God for that, duck rum, while intriguing, scares me just from an aroma perspective.

[@old-fashionedcoughypot]

Kind of like how ancient Egyptians made beer. They cooked the grains into a loaf then brewed the loaves to make their beer.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Old fashioned, That is how I approached this, thank you for the awesome compliment

[@MarceloIgnacioGarayalde]

Cool

[@rafer2002]

WOW, was wandering about that cake. What a chocolate wonderful mess. lol good luck.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Milk, Still cant believe I am able to say I have distilled a cake.

[@markal3023]

South Africa vs America. Hardly seems fair. they better bring help. You go make us proud Beaver!!. Give him melktert, pineapple,Mieliepap and bread yeast as his ingredients next time. Go South Africa. We know our dop! Been making dop out of nothing for the last year. Stuff COVID. Still got hangover from the cornflakes whiskey.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Next go round that sounds like a plan and maybe some ghost pops...

[@markal3023]

@@BEAVERDIY Or Ghost pepper even.

[@gabrielbarcelo5233]

Great setup!

[@BEAVERDIY]

Thanks

[@HodgyE5]

Awesome video, Thanks, Cheers

[@denisdendrinos4538]

Aaaah man thats a lekker video here and a great challenge! Nicely done! Thanks for the great work man! Pity you guys can't courier some of the product to each other to taste the others. And how you run that still is impressive man.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Denis, This was a super cool challenge looking forward to the next one, Thank you for the super comment...

[@RiggerBrew]

This is Great!

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Daniel, Thank you very much..

[@jakebenoit1458]

Imagine if you guys did this again, but with Jesse from @Still It

[@jacoengelbrecht2420]

Now this was an excellent video,fun fun fun,best two channel's on utube

[@BeardedBored]

I definitely had a great time:-)

[@spikelove9533]

Hi Beaver 😊🙋🏽‍♀️ what a fun and cool competition. I've removed oils from things by putting it in the freezer to get the oils to solidify then scoop them off. I bet the spirit is yummy. I need to catch up on your vids. I'm way behind. Thanks for the neat ideas and mad props for thinking out of the box.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Spike long time, was a crazy challenge, next time I have that much oils in the wash will have to do a cold crash to get the oils off.

[@spikelove9533]

@@BEAVERDIY a little tip put a Stainless Steel strainer like one of those little ones people use for home canning in jars. Put that in the freezer then scoop the cold oil off having it cold kinda makes the oil stick to it. It takes 3 or 4 rounds of getting everything cold and scooping it off, but you can successfully remove all the oil this way. Then do the last round I put a coffee filter on the strainer with a rubber band that will get the last of the very tiny drops of oil that are being stubborn. I made peanut butter corn mash once and that was how I got all the oil out. Now I just put peanuts and peanut butter in the whiskey then do the freezer strainer trick once the infusion is complete.

[@puffstastypuffs5192]

Awsome colab👌must day that chokky cake looked tasty as lol

[@SamoesADIY]

Ek love dit. Nice gedoen. Jy moet maar met jou koek bak videos ook begin 🤪

[@DanielJAudette]

Looking forward to the tasting videos

[@onerimeuse]

You did a lekker job man! I'm surprised how nice this looked coming out, not gonna lie.

[@BeardedBored]

Agreed!

[@kennethcounts5905]

Cool , let's see what happens, should be fun.

[@bryanteel3046]

I just subscribed to your Channel thanks to bearded and bored good content keep up the good work

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Bryan, Welcome to the family..

[@everydayden5826]

Absolutely loved this guys !! Been following you both for a while and love the support that most people in this hobby extend to each other. Very much looking forward to the final results. Best to you both. --den

[@BeardedBored]

We'll do a tasting vid one of these days:-)

[@colincamp6773]

Lekker man, I am so glad I came across your channel, nice to see a South African channel covering distilling. Have subscribed!

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Colin, Welcome to the family hope to see alot more in the future.

[@sethburnsman]

Your video has a detail level that was pleasant. I enjoyed learning the things you talked about! I would have loved a deeper description of the flavors you experienced. Super awesome challenge, enjoyed both yours and Bearded's video thoroughly. Do it again please!

[@BeardedBored]

We'll do a tasting video before long:-)

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

Hopped on over from Bearded’s video. Absolutely awesome! You had quite the challenge here. Hats off! Distilling is illegal in my country so I’m staying away from it but I love learning about the process and always have something or other fermenting away since this pandemic started. It was more of a sporadic thing before but I’ve really caught back the bug now. First thoughts when I see something are ‘will it ferment? Will it be tasty?’ 🤣

[@markal3023]

Distilling not illegal in South Africa Edda if you apply for a licence to distill for own consumption from sars. Also license to possess a still. Costs R2. You can have up to a 200 litre still for own consumption. See Distillique in Cape Town and Ketelkraal in Gauteng websites. I got mine through ketelkraal. Did a basic online course with Distillique to make sure I don’t kill anyone and know the SA legal aspects. Brilliant hobby.

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

@@markal3023 - Unfortunately for me, I live in Belgium and although the law there will allow you to own a still with absolutely no limitations on its size, it will prohibit its use for distilling alcohol (making water distillates is allowed as well as distilling essential oils)... the only ‘kinda’ legal way to distilling alcohol in Belgium, if you don’t want to run afoul of the tax man and the high fines associated with getting caught, is if the still has a capacity of less than one litre. I checked both the law and the availability of mini-stills. There are a few dinky little copper ones (old fashioned alambics) available through Austrian webshops but they’re horribly expensive and either have a capacity of 0.5 litres or... 2 litres. Hardly worth the effort or the money especially since reviews mention the connections are hardly airtight, the temp gauges aren’t up to snuff and they damage easily. Meh. Pretty stupid too, the regulations for operating a legal distillery only open applications for licenses to people who are self-employed and then there are a few extra caveats that make it economically unsound even for those who want to start distilling commercially. You CAN apply for a license as a ‘liquor factory’ (for gins etc) but that means you have to get your base alcohol elsewhere... which usually means outside of Belgium. I call this stupid because people only have the illegal circuit to start experimenting and come up with recipes and at the same time, because Russia got in a snit and has put an almost complete stop to importing Belgian pears etc, this country is forced to destroy mountains of fruit just to keep prices at a minimum level. Opening up things to private enterprise and home distilling would mean lots of fruit being turned into delicious country wines and distillates. End of rant. Just in case you’re curious: My last job was in finances and insurance. Nothing to do with fruit, wines or distilling. But I happen to like making stuff myself. 🤣

[@markal3023]

@@eddavanleemputten9232 Oh No how aweful to think of all that natural product being destroyed. Seems like a lot of bureaucracy to protect the tax status. Being that a still can be fashioned from just about any thing from pressure cooker or coffee urn, I guess its the fear of being caught that prevents people from following a creative rewarding hobby.

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

@@markal3023 - The fines are horrid indeed

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Edda, Welcome to the channel, Awesome to have you here, this was a crazy ride, the idea behind the channel and the challenge is to promote the hobby as purely that a hobby, the more awareness we as you tubers and distillers can create towards the hobby the more the world will see it as a legitimate hobby as Jesse says. Hopefully one day we can all enjoy the hobby at home and do it legally. @beardedandbored

[@theatticdesign]

Awesome job man! Saw bearded's and came right over. Good on u for not opting for the choc syrup option :) looking forward to the tasting. Ben

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Ben, If you are going to do it go all in....thanks for the comment

[@christiankirkenes5922]

Oh dude, this looks awesome. I wish I could compete.

[@greco345]

Amazing collaboration guys. Well done

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi George, Thank you for the awesome comment. Have a lekker day.

[@brendanwhite104]

You definitely had the hardest challenge! Great job man. Those oils looked like a nightmare 😂

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Brendan, This was a real challenge but I think Beared had a harder recipe to make, to balance the flavors must have been a massive challenge.

[@BigEdsGuns]

+1 Liked the video. Loved the competition and Subscribed! Have not looked at your other videos yet. You should do a video about Louching most will not understand it. The gin nerds will, but most will not. It is cool to change louch back and forth for people who don't know. My only criticism: Don't mix anything above 40% abv in plastic. Use glass, stainless, copper, or wood only. It's my safety side and I mean no offense. I am just trying to spread the message to other novice/hobbyists to use the proper materials for high ABV spirits. Cheers Beaver DIY!

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Big, Thank you for the awesome comment, I have been looking for a glass jug and cylinder, but SA is crazy with prices, I only use food safe and chemical safe plastic, and limit the exposure time. Will love to only use glass... Thank you once again.

[@BigEdsGuns]

@@BEAVERDIY Please accept my apology. It is my ignorance and arrogance in thinking that everyone, everywhere, has easy access to all materials & supplies that make this hobby possible. Make due with what you got Sir! Sincerely Ed.

[@TodmordenFred]

Was really interested in both project challenges to do something within ten days. Was disappointed that the ten days wasn’t a final product. And only included fermenting and running through a still.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Fred, Thanks for the comment, yes it was a bit of a challenge to get it all done, this was the first go round so will have to do some changes to the format and do it better next time...

[@TodmordenFred]

@@BEAVERDIY I still liked the challenge. Something different is always worth watching

[@robmcdonald8262]

You guys are great! But maybe a beard off with Still it?

[@BeardedBored]

First!

[@StillIt]

Lol ya muppet

[@BeardedBored]

@@StillIt :-)

[@JamesKintner]

So are you guys more Magnificent Seven or Blues Brothers? I feel like you're getting the band together for a mission.

[@BeardedBored]

@@JamesKintner LoL, that's awesome! The mission to bring the world together through spirits!

[@Donavin1976]

Bearded sent me. Said I could get a jar. 😆 Great idea for the collab / competition. Hope you guys can mail each other a mini bottle of your "gift sanitizer". 😉

[@BEAVERDIY]

We are working on getting some samples across, will send you some just let me know where.

[@Donavin1976]

Was teasing about getting a jar. I'm not a mooch. But I DID find you through Bearded's chanel. There ARE ways to legally ship (very) small quantities of un-taxted liquor through customs. Maybe as extract?

[@mackemsruleFTM]

My guess is you will end up at 1.011 Beaver is there any chance you can send me some of that bootleggers yeast? lol

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Micheal, Any time, send me a mail and will see how I can send you some off it.

[@josephbXIX]

Cake has flour. You should have discussed use of amylase.

[@AndrewR74]

Is it still called witblitz off it's made with chocolate?

[@BEAVERDIY]

Not sure what to call it hahha

[@danssv8]

Lekka broer

[@danssv8]

You from Durbs broer

[@vance7354]

Just out of curisoity, is there any way to know how to make cuts based on timing vs by taste if someone is using something like an electric 1 gallon air cooled still? If I was going to distill, My taste buds are not sensitive enough to taste the difference between heads, hearts and tails and need a way to go by times at least roughly. For example, "first 8 mins is heads, next 12 mins is hearts, last 15 is tails". Is there some sort of rough guess timing like this that someone with very insensitive taste buds can go by?

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi Vance, the short answer is yes, but that come with a lot of work and calculations, start by calculating drips be minute, to calculate volume over time, then use a fractional distillation calculation calculator to detirme heads, hearts and tails. WIth those you will be able to calculate the time and cut-off. Hope this helps

[@danssv8]

You got a resep for witblits of mampoer?? Share with me pls

[@danssv8]

25lt bath if possible

[@jacquesvanvuuren3298]

Hi beaver hoe ganit bro ek distill ook. Wil vir jou iets stuur man wat ek gemaak het dan kan jy proe en deel met bearded. Hy het gevra vir my resep.

[@BEAVERDIY]

Hi, Enige tyd my vriend van waar is jy.

[@jacquesvanvuuren3298]

Beaufort wes hart van die karoo. Wat is jou mail dan kan ek vir jou stuur