All Bran Recipe

[rad14701]

Run twice in pot still mode or once in reflux mode works for me... A bastard run with a combination of reflux, pot, and reflux, with only the hearts being pot stilled, also works well... Very flexible and forgiving, overall...

[blanikdog]

Still fermenting nicely, and has quite a 'fruity' taste which seems odd, but it has a lot of fermenting to go yet which may alter the taste. Certainly an easy and basically foolproof wash. A nice beginners wash for sure. Looking forward to the final product.

blanik

[rumlover]

Just a little confused. When you say 2 cups sugar to a gallon, do you mean 2 cups plus a gallon of water or 2 cups then enough water to make one gallon ?
Or, does it matter?

[rad14701]

Just a little confused. When you say 2 cups sugar to a gallon, do you mean 2 cups plus a gallon of water or 2 cups then enough water to make one gallon ?
Or, does it matter?

My measurements are total volume... Sugar plus enough water tom make a gallon... So 5 gallons would be the sugar plus enough water to fill a 5 gallon bucket... That is also how the sugar calculator is designed to work, as it calculates the volume of the sugar as well as the roughly calculated water volume...

[blanikdog]

Well I did it today. I used the original Allbran stick type things and I have to report that it reminded me of the days we hosed down the milking shed, but didn't have the same odour. It sure as hell ferments well with DAP and Epsom salts. I'm sorta scared of fertilizer, besides it looks like a foaming, fertilizer wash.

blanik

Five days now and still fermenting, but has slowed considerably. Probably take four or five more daysto finish and settle. I'm looking forward to distilling this.

blanik

[rad14701]

Sounds good, blanikdog... While your ferment is taking a bit longer than others it's probably due to one or more factors but not a problem... Temperature, nutrients, yeast, or other... Nothing wrong with a slower ferment if you have the patience...

Do you have a URL to that twig style bran so I can check the nutritional values by chance...??? It may require some tweaking of cereal or additional nutrient proportions...

It is currently Spring/Summer where you're located, isn't it...???

[autotech]

cornfused on recipe you state 4cup suger per gal of water is that 4 cup and one gal or 4 cup add water to make a gal,you state on pre reply that it is add suger to make up to gal

[blanikdog]

http://www2.kelloggs.com/Product/Produc ... roduct=551 should give you the info, Rad. It's called AllBran Original. Summer here and average temp is around 30c. Bloody hot in other words.

The slow ferment isn't a problem for me in fact I like a long ferment as it gives me time to do other stuff and if there's one thing this hobby has taught me, it's patience.

blanik

[Dnderhead]

not that big a diferance--1lb suger toped to gal=7% or 2lb toped to gallion= 14%
1lb suger+ a gallon of water=6.6% or 2lbsuger +gallon water=13.2%
(dont be nitpicky the yeast arnt)

[rad14701]

For all of my recipes the measurements are sugar + water topped to specified total volume... This will keep you inline with the sugar wash calculator on the parent site... Measure as sugar topped with water whether inverting the sugar or not...

4 cups sugar + 0.85 gallons water = 1 gallon @ 14.1% ABV potential with an SG of 1.092... This is the furthest I ever push bakers yeast... 3.5 cups per gallon = ~12.3% ABV... 3 cups per gallon = ~10.6% ABV...

[autotech]

appreciate the clarification rad, starting wash now, let you know how it goes

[rumlover]

I've got my second batch of my rumsky variant of all bran running. First batch distilled very nicely.This time I used about 1 gal of backset to dissolve the sugar and 1 qt of dunder (5 gal fermenter). Both times the wash went apeshit for the first 30 hrs. then slowed quite a bit. My question is would giving the wash a stir once a day help to pick things up a bit??


BTW ...great recipe rad...Variations on this recipe are endless. Great for a dipshit such as myself