Commercial Product Contain Sugar
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Does anyone know if store bought booze uses refined sugars for there likker ? Just wondering ? During fermentations of there mashes
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The big guys, probably not due to cost. Craft, sugar is used. We use it in rum, vodka, moonshine. We don't use white sugar, but raw sugar from a mill. One of the other local distilleries also uses sugar based washes.
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I always asumed spirits from natural accuring fruit / grain sugar where better when raw sugar washes? Is that just a myth raw sugars are great for good spirit washes?
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By "refined sugar" do you mean table sugar ? Does dextrose (corn sugar) count ? There are many commercial spirits that are distilled from sugarcane, "Ocean" and "Finlandia" vodkas for example, though it's not known just how much they refine their base sugars.
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Hi,Samogonka wrote:Does anyone know if store bought booze uses refined sugars for there likker ? Just wondering ? During fermentations of there mashes
Supposing they did....
fermentation eats the sugar and produces alcohol and carbon dioxide!
as to whether there may be a bit of residual sugar, I would think little if any going by the lack of sweetness in the fermented liquid...
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So is there a greater benefit from making a fruit wash over say milled sugar wash ? I always asumed sugar washes were cheap way out and produced cheap quality spirits
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The majority of UK supermarket brand spirits use a "triple distilled" neutral from one big company and are then flavoured. I'm pretty sure it's from a sugar wash, but am open to correction.
edit : I was wrong for the premium, right for the basic http://www.ethimex.com/pages/high-grade-ethanol.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow . Majority of good stuff is from grain http://www.ethimex.com/pages/premium-ethanol.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
edit : I was wrong for the premium, right for the basic http://www.ethimex.com/pages/high-grade-ethanol.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow . Majority of good stuff is from grain http://www.ethimex.com/pages/premium-ethanol.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
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I know that in New Zealand (hi, kiwis) a great deal of vodka/ spirit is made from whey, a by-product of milk processing.
Probably makes its way into those same drinks as in the U.K.
Unless they have found new methods, it is fermented using a yeast that eats milk solids/ whatever instead of sucrose. Kluyveromyces Marxianus and there is another name, K. something, maybe fragilis?
I would love to get some as an acquaintance makes cheese....
Geoff
Probably makes its way into those same drinks as in the U.K.
Unless they have found new methods, it is fermented using a yeast that eats milk solids/ whatever instead of sucrose. Kluyveromyces Marxianus and there is another name, K. something, maybe fragilis?
I would love to get some as an acquaintance makes cheese....
Geoff
The Baker