Sultana Bran

[alcodemon]

I have just made a wash based on Birdwatchers Sugar Wash Recipe with changes.

6 kg sugar
2 cups sultana bran
2 cups all-bran
1 tsp citric acid (had no lemons)
pinch of epsom salt
pinch of bi-carb of soda
90 gr of bakers yeast
Water and ingredients up to the 26 litre mark on the fermenter.

After 3 days the airlock is popping every 2-3 seconds.

Any comments on this wash?

Cheers

[HookLine]

Be interesting to see if the sultana flavour comes over.

6 kg of sugar in 26 litres gives you about 13.5 % abv, which is pushing bakers yeast to its limits, and the stress on the yeast will add a lot of off flavours to the ferment.

Try 4.5 kg (= 10.2 %).

My rule of thumb is 1 kg sugar per 6 litres (= 9.8 % abv).

[rad14701]

You should have enough nutrients in that wash for a full ferment as long as you keep it warm enough for the bakers yeast to do its job...

[alcodemon]

The temp is sitting on about 27 deg and the airlock is popping every 5 sec.

Thanks for the info. As I'm still fairly new to this form of art, there's heaps more to learn.

What sort of off-taste am I likely to encounter? I've used dextrose with turbo yeast and turbo clear previously and it tasted OK. Used Birdwatchers recipe before and it tasted OK too.

I guess that the bourbon etc mixed with coca-cola makes it taste ok.

Cheers