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After spending ages trying to find coconut essence in all my local supermarkets to try this recipe, I finally found some and gave this recipe a try. All I can say is it works really well and makes a great coconut rum for a fraction of the prestige coconut essence price. :thumbup: Many Thanks for pos...

Well to speed the process up I have found adding more lemon juice makes a big difference to the fermenting time. I now use approx twice the recommended concentrated lemon juice and this cuts my fermentation time in half. Compared to the previous Turbo yeast/carbon + sugar method I get a better smell...

I made myself a batch of 24l of this last week and must say that so far I am well impressed by the fermentation so far - I am using a 11w energy efficient bulb inside a polystyrene box on top of a 25l bucket with airlocked lid and it seems to be happily bubbling along. I will let you know the outcom...

good day, OK, I will give this a go and try to scale it down; roughly 20 litres about 5kg ordinary sugar, a cup of tomato paste a small cup of lime juice (no lemons, I'm a limey ferchrissakes) 75kg fresh bakers yeast Just sterilising my bucket now, I might throw in some yeast nutrient - a DAP and v...

Not sure if this has been mentioned in here before but as a marine fish keeper I buy Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO3) and then spread it over a baking tray and bake in the oven at 400F/200C for an hour. This drives off the excess water and carbon dioxide and converts the Sodium Bicarbonate into the highe...

Thanks guys for the warm welcome (on such a foul day outside).

I have been browsing the forum a few days and found a number of very good articles that have piqued my fancy.

Realise now that I need a large pan to warm my ingredients up with - so going to trawl the local hardware stores.

Hi All,

After an absence of 20 years from the homebrew scene I have decided to restart and whilst my cider and mead are on the go I want to learn about the process of distilling alcohol.

Best regards,

NissedasaPewt