First corn/sugar wash...

[hendecp]

I wanted to share my first wash. Today I used UJ's sour mash recipe, but substituted corn meal instead. Ok,ok,ok...... Before you all jump on me here.... I didn't have acces to the cracked corn and I know that I will only be able to use this once since it is ground way down. I used turbo yeast, don't growl too much, I had it and wanted to not waste it.

15lb of sugar
15lb of corn meal
10 gal of water
2 pks of turbo yeast

The SG after mixing all this up was at 70.

This is all done less than an hour ago (3:15PM EST 4/28/2012)

I do plan on running this in my 2" Boka in pot still mode with the packing in.....

Ok, start shooting holes!!!

[UnseatedPanic]

Good luck let us know how it turns out.... 2 packs of turbo she should be bubblein like cravy in about 2 hours... also that turbo might give off a funny flavor just a heads up

[Bayou-Ruler]

I wanted to share my first wash. Today I used UJ's sour mash recipe, but substituted corn meal instead. Ok,ok,ok...... Before you all jump on me here.... I didn't have acces to the cracked corn and I know that I will only be able to use this once since it is ground way down. I used turbo yeast, don't growl too much, I had it and wanted to not waste it.

15lb of sugar
15lb of corn meal
10 gal of water
2 pks of turbo yeast

The SG after mixing all this up was at 70.

This is all done less than an hour ago (3:15PM EST 4/28/2012)

I do plan on running this in my 2" Boka in pot still mode with the packing in.....

Ok, start shooting holes!!!

well with that much turbo yeast, it should produce some great ethanol fuel. Shoot with that much turbo you could have added even more sugar and made even more fuel.

[hendecp]

I was on the fence with one or two packs. I was reading the back of the packs of yeast and going by directions. I am not sure about the flavor, will have to let you know. From what I have read it will probably have some goofy favors. I will do a fast strip and see whee it ends up? Maybe I should just run it as a neutral instead?

What can I say, it's my first!

[hendecp]

Good luck let us know how it turns out.... 2 packs of turbo she should be bubblein like cravy in about 2 hours... also that turbo might give off a funny flavor just a heads up

It's already got a head about an inch

[hendecp]

Good luck let us know how it turns out.... 2 packs of turbo she should be bubblein like cravy in about 2 hours... also that turbo might give off a funny flavor just a heads up

What do you think about the SG number?

[hendecp]

Good luck let us know how it turns out.... 2 packs of turbo she should be bubblein like cravy in about 2 hours... also that turbo might give off a funny flavor just a heads up

Bubbling like mad! Pull the lid off and take a whiff...... Smells like corn, but knocked me on my ass with the smell of alcohol... That normal?

[rad14701]

Normally you wouldn't be shooting for a flavored wash or use anything but sugar with turbo yeast... A single sachet of turbo is usually good for 5 - 15 gallons of wash and you doubled it... Now you have three times as much nutrients as needed because the corn meal already had enough nutrients to ferment the sugar... So now you know why you're being told over and over again how wretched the resulting wash will be... New members can either believe what they read, which we've repeated countless times, or find out for themselves by ending up with rot gut ethanol fuel... Hopefully, your wash won't overheat and kill off the yeast due to the excessive nutrients... You've set yourself up for thermal runaway...

[cornsqueezer]

+1 rad

[hendecp]

Normally you wouldn't be shooting for a flavored wash or use anything but sugar with turbo yeast... A single sachet of turbo is usually good for 5 - 15 gallons of wash and you doubled it... Now you have three times as much nutrients as needed because the corn meal already had enough nutrients to ferment the sugar... So now you know why you're being told over and over again how wretched the resulting wash will be... New members can either believe what they read, which we've repeated countless times, or find out for themselves by ending up with rot gut ethanol fuel... Hopefully, your wash won't overheat and kill off the yeast due to the excessive nutrients... You've set yourself up for thermal runaway...

Yeah, I was on the fence about tossing in that second pack. I have read so much on here that I am going crazy. This is my first and wont be my last. I still have to do a sacrificial run and this will probably be the sacrifice. I am going to take a drive to a feed store that I found and get cracked corn for my next run. In UJ's recipe, he calls for distillers yeast if possible. Turbo yeast is considered distillers yeast, but only if I am making a sugar water wash only? There is a brew supply pretty close to me and they have all the yeasts available. Or I can go to Walmart and get the red star stuff. The brew supply talked me into the turbo stuff and got me all confused with the amount to use. I feel liked cheated on you guys.....

Took a reading about 15 minutes ago and the water is 74f and the SG is 60 and it is bubbling away. As far as heat is concerned I have the wash in the basement which is a constant 65 right now. Hopefully this will help with the runaway heat you are talking about. We'll see. Like I said, this will be my sacrificial more than likely.

[cornsqueezer]

We all make mistakes, but just to keep it simple if I were you I'd forget about turbo and just follow one of the tried and true recipes like Uncle jessies simple sour mash recipe. I have used it and can say from my experience that it is easy and makes good product and by the way I use bakers yeast also and it works for me.

[UnseatedPanic]

I saw that you said that someone told you distillers yeast is turbo... i would check with your suppiler i am using distillers yeast that is not turbo they make it and it is so much better than bakers.... i bought a bag for round 6 dollars us and normal get serval runs off of it..... i keep it next to the wifes butter in the cooler.... very interrested to see what you get