Here is a recipe for a good vodka tasting sugar wash that ferments easily.
Give it a try,and you will never make another turbo!
The potato water provides the missing neutrents,and leaves a mild vodka flavor.
8 potatos
10 pounds of sugar
6 tsps of DAP
3 tsps of tartaric acid
1/8 tsp of geritol tonic
1/8 tsp of epsom salts
2-3 packs of 1118,or 1/4 cup of bakers yeast in a gallon starter.
Make the starter at least 48 hour ahead of time so you have lots of yeast.
Make the starter with a 1/2 cup of sugar in a gallon of 100f water,and leave it open for 48 hours.{you can cover it with a coffee filter}
After 2 days,Litely wash the potatos,and cut them up into large pieces.
Boil them gently in a large pot for 20 minutes or so,and dont cook them till they start falling apart.Remove the potatos from the water,and dissolve your sugar in the hot potato water.{you can eat the potatos for dinner}Add this to your fermenter,and add more water to the 5 gallon mark,and add the DAP,acid,geritol,and epsom salts,and stir it up real good to mix in some air.Shake up your gallon starter,and pour it in.
Leave it open for 3 days,then put an airlock on it.{you can cover it with a cloth or something,but it needs the air}
If you keep it in a warm place it will ferment out in 14 days or so.If its cooler,it will take longer.
This makes a good vodka with a potstill.Much better than turbo yeast,and its cheaper,by far
Potato water sugar wash recipe
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