taste

[blueman38]

started with 5 gallons of water, 15 pounds suger, vodka yeast. Ferminted for 10 day or until it stopped bubbling. used super- kleer. let stand for 2 weeks. run through a reflex still very slow 92-95 abv, cut are good. but still have a unwanted taste. please help.

[ol' rummie]

Did you let it air out overnight?
If so you might want to try carbon filtering.

[As-Ol-Joe]

Did you do a cleaning run on your still before you did your spirit run?

[blueman38]

yes ran it through carbon. let stand with carbon in it, still has a taste. tried turbo yeast, really bad taste. could it be the yeast?

[blueman38]

also tried sodium bicard in second run, helped a little

[goose eye]

why you addin clearin stuff an did you rack it gone

these boys i no aint ever worked just suger so they aint gotta clue on taste
so im tole

[wineo]

That vodka yeast is turbo yeast.Next time reduce your sugar to 8 pounds,and use a large amount of bakers yeast,or a 1/2 cup of distillers yeast.You will be alot happier with the flavor.

[Oaty]

Wineo is right Turbo's cause lots of problems. The distillate is cloudy and the taste is always off. Try re-distilling it' ll remove the taste from this batch. Next time use something else like wineo said. Bakers with nutrients gives good results. Turbos are over-rated, expensive and nasty.They aren't as fast as they claim. They don't produce the abv they claim and they cause all kinds of problems. Don't use them.

[gs_moonshine]

I've done done two different turbo washes and they both turned out with a funky taste. Because I've made the same washes with distillers yeast and they turned out fine. My advice would be to stay away from turbos.

[blueman38]

thanks, i will try so bakers yeast.. THANKS AGAIN........

[Oaty]

I don't really care for the turbos. They do okay when you aim for a lower abv, but if you aim for the 20% that they advertise they can get funky. With 15 lbs sugar in a 5 gal wash you were aiming for higher abv.

[theholymackerel]

I don't really care for the turbos. They do okay when you aim for a lower abv, but if you aim for the 20% that they advertise they can get funky. With 15 lbs sugar in a 5 gal wash you were aiming for higher abv.

A good rule of thumb is (per 5 gallon wash) every lb of white sugar added adds 1% abv.

It's not perfect, but good enough. So 15 lbl of sugar in a 5 gallon sugar wash should yeild 15%abv.

15% is plenty high enough to start gettin' nastys. I like washes/mashes that are about half that strength... they make the sweetest, smoothest, cleanest booze ya ever had AND they ferment super fast. A 6 or 7% wash can ferment out in 3 or 4 days easily. (How long did that 15% wash take? A few weeks? Heh.)







I wish ya luck.