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Homemade alcohol (50 replies)

■ 🕑 43.
│  New ferment tonight:
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│   * 4kg sugar
│   * 250g bran
│   * 50g yeast
│   * pinch DAP, epsom salt
│   * fill up 20L bucket to top
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│  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.
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└─■ 🕑 48.
    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.
     

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