Cheap sugar wash

noobstiller · Post by **noobstiller** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:11 pm

I just finished up a 1 gal sugar wash with the following recipe.

1 tblspoon molasses

1 1/2lb sugar

1 tblspoon bakers yeast

1 tblspoon orange jelly(for nutrients?)

small amount of a multivitamin

How should this turn out? I made this wash in a 1/10th amount before and it came out to roughly one cup of 60ABV in a ice water still.

GingerBreadMan · Post by **GingerBreadMan** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:27 pm

I have no idea.

Here's the best post ever on white sugar washes -

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5230

I'm surprised it never made it as a sticky. I have it book marked. I study it often

Edit: I'm printing this post in case it ever disappears

noobstiller · Post by **noobstiller** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:37 pm

Just an update: Its acting up quite a bit, bubbling/producing co2 at an almost violent rate. Fermenting in my bedroom with a heating pad under a blanket with the bucket of wash @ 74F

I have had to reseal the lid to the fermenting chamber quite a few times, and I am often hearing the "pop" of it coming off.

thank you for the recipe link gingerbread man, i will keep that link handy for me next wash

I am currently gathering supplies to make UJSM so I can make some whisky

Flash Clampet · Post by **Flash Clampet** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:33 pm

i wouldnt be sleeping in the same room thats fermenting unless its very well ventilated

BW Redneck · Post by **BW Redneck** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:57 am

Flash Clampet wrote:i wouldnt be sleeping in the same room thats fermenting unless its very well ventilated

What? I do! And I ain't died yet!

The concentration is so low that you'd have to sleep in a closet on the floor with it for it to even affect you. I sleep about 2 feet off the floor, and I'm just fine.

Flash Clampet · Post by **Flash Clampet** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:21 pm

yeh but doesnt it stink?

gezuz, i walk out into my garage with two 25L washes going and just about get knocked out from the smell. plus the garage gets full of fruit fly because they are attracted to the smell. i wouldnt want that happening in my house.

surely there are other rooms in the house that are more suitable? laundry? spare rooms? utility room?

noobstiller · Post by **noobstiller** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:03 am

i actually like the smell of a fermenting wash. Keep in mind, i dont do large washes. 1 gal is my biggest so far so the smell is not strong.

I had to leave town for a few weeks without notice so I flushed the wash

it was doing so good.

i am regretting tossing it, but I did it in fear of my girlfriend finding it and raising hell.

so thats why I had to hide it in my bedroom(called the"fight room" because I have to sleep there when we are fighting)

BW Redneck · Post by **BW Redneck** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:30 pm

Doesn't really stink at all, but then again, I work around manure all day.

With a little bit of backset, my mashes almost never become contaminated. Even with the ones that do, they barely smell around the airlock and only stink if the lid is lifted.

RadicalEd1 · Post by **RadicalEd1** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:56 pm

Lots of times, if your yeast is putting out a bad smell, most notably a sulfur smell, then you probably have insufficient nutrients in your wash. Hope that might help you, Flash!

punkin · Post by **punkin** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:01 pm

Any scent coming from washes with airlocks round here, only happens in the first couplea days, and are invariably delicous

Mollasses ferments are probably a bit strong for a bedroom, but other than that, it wouldn't worry me a bit.

NotAChanceOfGettingThatOnePastTheMissussPunkin