Sugar Liquor

[Rotgut]

I am new to distilling just to get that out of the way.
I heard you could make liquor out of sugar yeast and water does anybody know if theres any truth to that or have a recipe to do so?

[sluggerdog]

I'm a newbie too and have just finished my first brew.

I made the following:

16 kg of sugar
2 packets of spirit yeast
50 litres of water

Ferment for 3 weeks, run though reflux still and out came 94% spirits, watered it down to 40% and ran though a carbon z filter.

A lot simpler then I thought it would be....

[CopperMan]

You need to distill it too?... This site has everything you basicly ever need to know about home distillation.

[Rocky_Creek]

You can do it with turbo yeast or with your own neutrient. Personally I don't like the turbo yeast because many of them produce a good bit of ethyk acetate and it takes a while to calm down. You can use molasses, or some grain, some neutrient from a beer/wine shop, or tomato paste among other things. You need a source of vitamine B in your own neutrient. I have not tried some of the new pot still yeast that claim to be super clean. I will not go into a repipe, I've got what works for me, that probably won't be what you want. Whether you use a pot still or a reflux may make a big differance. For an easy start with mostly sugar, use uncle jessy's sour mash recipe and put about 3 pounds of grain and 7 pounds of sugar. On the first go around add some acid ( like citric not nitric). This will work fine and give a VERY light whiskey or vodka if you use a reflux or triple distill in a pot. There is NO absolute recipe, each of us takes the basics and does our own thing. Try a small fermentation, there is little to loose.

Read, it's all on this site.

and these

http://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.php/Uncle_Jes ... ash_Method" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

http://distillers.tastylime.net/library ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new_distillers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[possum]

Molassis makes a fine nutreant, as it contains both sugar and trace nutrients.

5lbs sugar
1 squezed lemon
disolve in hot water
add
1 gal molassis
top up to 5 gallons and add yeast...works every time.
then distill and age a month or two

great stuff.