| #48. |
| Published: 2025-04-12 [Sat] 04:35, by |
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This bran recipe fermented really well. 5 days later and it's below 0 standard gravity -- still pretty cloudy and lots of carbon dioxide going on, but it smells fine. So, according to ... science it looks like yeast like bran more than honey corn cereal (see >>47) while the bran doesn't smell bad, it doesn't smell good either -- even if the cereal takes 2 or 3 days longer to ferment out (which is nothing in the big scheme of things) I have a feeling it's going to have the superior end result After my reflux still comes, I plan to run a tomato paste wash and bran wash and do some blind tastings for the vodka they produce. I suspect they will be identical but we will have to wait and see. |
| #43. |
| Published: 2025-04-07 [Mon] 14:40, by |
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New ferment tonight: * 4kg sugar * 250g bran * 50g yeast * pinch DAP, epsom salt * fill up 20L bucket to top I cooked the bran for about 30 minutes before adding the sugar, never did an all bran but curious how it'll turn out. I want to compare tomato paste washes and bran washes once I get my new reflux still up and running. |
| #40. 2025-04 ferments |
| Published: 2025-04-04 [Fri] 12:45, by |
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I started a 20L ferment tonight of a new recipe In the boiler: * 100g of homemade tomato paste * 100g of old bran * 8g of old yeast * 30ml end of old bottle of wine (mostly sludge) * 4kg sugar After cooling: * 50g baker's yeast * pinch DAP * pinch epsom salts just finished cooking this up. Never tried using bran as a nutrient before so I'm curious how it turns out. It should finish around 12% ABV or so, fingers crossed! I wonder how bran flavor will compare with tomato flavor... |
| #1. Homemade alcohol |
| Published: 2024-01-08 [Mon] 15:38, by |
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