Wine Yeast

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baznkez
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Wine Yeast

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HI ,
Has anyone used wine yeast to make molasses rum before ? , if so any feedback on temps. , grams of yeast , water ,etc would be greatly appreciated.

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Be careful (selective) of the variety of wine yeast you try. Some are notorious at producing hydrogen sulfide. And molasses is sometimes sulfured as well. So, a word of caution. Too much H2S and you'll think someone sh_t in your fermenter.

I simply use baker's yeast for mine. Inexpensive, readily available, and quite effective at fermentation.

But, YMMV.
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