Both washes stalled in less than 12 hours

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Re: Both washes stalled in less than 12 hours

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jb-texshine - would crushed oyster shells such as this sold at Tractor Supply be acceptable. It's a chicken feed supplement.

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I had ph crash , I think, on my last ferment, too.
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Re: Both washes stalled in less than 12 hours

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either one will work or just go by your local oyster bar and get some shells for free. I like the whole shells better because you can reuse them
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I use crushed shells because they are cheap, readily available AND re-useable.
I put them in a coarse mesh bag along with a sealed Nalgene bottle to make the whole works float. When the ferment is finished, I dump the crushed shells into a pan and rinse them well with hot water.
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Re: Both washes stalled in less than 12 hours

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rad14701 wrote:
midnightmaraude wrote:I'm sure it helped but I pasteurizing it and boiling it up may have made some unfermentables fermentable.
Now, that would be a real trick if it was true... Unfortunately, you didn't make any unfermentables fermentable because, well, they're unfermentables... Meaning that they contain no fermentable sugars or starches that can be converted into fermentable sugars... Hence, unfermentables...
Actually according to HDNB's research ( that I haven't checked) you can in fact invert the sugars of agave syrup. The fracturing of the polysaccharides would in fact make them much easier to ferment the way I see it
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Re: Both washes stalled in less than 12 hours

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thecroweater wrote:
rad14701 wrote:
midnightmaraude wrote:I'm sure it helped but I pasteurizing it and boiling it up may have made some unfermentables fermentable.
Now, that would be a real trick if it was true... Unfortunately, you didn't make any unfermentables fermentable because, well, they're unfermentables... Meaning that they contain no fermentable sugars or starches that can be converted into fermentable sugars... Hence, unfermentables...
Actually according to HDNB's research ( that I haven't checked) you can in fact invert the sugars of agave syrup. The fracturing of the polysaccharides would in fact make them much easier to ferment the way I see it

Can you link to HDNB's research (not sure what HDNB is)? Are you saying the sugars can be inverted strictly using heat?
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Re: Both washes stalled in less than 12 hours

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i did some reading on this last year, not really research and posted a comment earlier in this thread just trying to help out.

But if you use HD google search up there^^^ and type in " agave", there is a fair jag of reading and some reasonably good documentation on tequila recipes.
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