Pectic Enzyme VS Alpha,Gluco

[heefageLA]

Will soon be making mashes from pears, blackberrys and muscadines.

Most fruit recipes i come across call for pectic enzymes to be used to breakdown sugars.

Can Alpha or Gluco be used instead, or are they used strictly for grains?

[Dnderhead]

alpha/glucose is for starch,,,pectic breaks down pectin that is in cell walls.
this is not as a necessity in distilling as it is in wine.there is other methods
like freezing.

[blind drunk]

Also, fruit has the sugar already available for the yeast. No conversion is necessary with fruit, like it is with grains. Crush or freeze and go.

[heefageLA]

thanks for the prompt reply.
so freezing will help in the place of pectic enzyme?

i planned to make wine with the blackberries and muscadines
and distill the pear mash.

[blind drunk]

Man, that sounds delicious.

[Tater]

thanks for the prompt reply.
so freezing will help in the place of pectic enzyme?

i planned to make wine with the blackberries and muscadines
and distill the pear mash.

Freezing will break own cell walls in the fruit/berries makes it easier for yeast to get at sugars.

[Dnderhead]

freezing fruit will help release the juice inside the cells,i made wine for years and never knew of it. it is more of a wine thing that helps clear the wine as some fruit will have a "pectic haze"
and if you distill you do not care if clear or not..

[blind drunk]

I think of freezing as akin to crushing ...

[heefageLA]

alright. I will most likely freeze before I crush and then add some heat to get the temp back up.

thanks for the help guys

Tom. the hardest part begins;
Scrounging in the woods all day picking those little sugar bombs

[Dnderhead]

give ya a hint not that i know a heck of a lot about berries,but.
git a spay bottle,fill with water and a bit of k meta..when you pick lightly mist your
bucket as you dump in berries .

[blind drunk]

Tom. the hardest part begins;
Scrounging in the woods all day picking those little sugar bombs

and we all know when the best part begins ...