The five stages of grief 😢

Attacked by swordfish 700’ down.

"You shouldnt kill yourself, thats bad"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

New batch of whiskey
Grain bill is as follows:
5kg oak smoked wheat malt
5kg beech smoked barley malt
1kg rolled oats

Had to make wider cuts than i usually do and also triple distill because the abv of my wash was pitifully low
Why was the abv of the wash so low? Because the scorching sun heated up my mash tun so much during the mash that a lot of the enzymes from the malt denatured and i had dogshit conversion efficiency, leading me to a starting gravity of only about 1.050 instead of the expected ~1.080

Never mashing under the midsummer sun again

I did notice a tiny bit of smoke flavor during the distillation but really not much
Will probably become more pronounced after its aged a while, same thing happened with the previous batches of smokey whiskey that had way less smoked malt in them