Anyone use bakers yeast for sugar wash?

[pothead]

I wash wondering if anyone here uses bakers yeast to make a sugar wash to be run in a reflux still?
If so, how much sugar,yeast,tomato past/nutrients do you use in you batches?

[CopperMan]

bakers yeast works fine. It has a lower alcohol tolerance around 10-12%. Im pretty sure it was 3 grams per liter.

[Uncle Remus]

I put on a batch with EC 1118 and tomato paste and about a cup of malt a week ago. seems to be working fine. I'm trying to get away from turbos in the sugar wash. The potential sg is abut 13-14% av.... we'll see how it turns out.

[pothead]

I use active dry bakers yeast for everything else, and it works fine (21grams per 5 gallon batch). But I usually run fruit wash or rum. I am just wondering if it works as good for sugar as it does for everything else.

What I'm thinking is (for a 12 gallon batch) about 20lbs sugar, 1- 6oz cans of paste, a few tbspns molasses, and a lemon or two. Anyone think it's too much or not enough of anything?

[Thorin]

mash without fruit is illegal here (because of laws against distilling ), so i'll be using some fruit in all my batches... dont know the minimum amount for it to be legal though... :/

Thorin...

[CopperMan]

make some grain wash and throw in a grape or two.

[Uncle Remus]

mash without fruit is illegal here (because of laws against distilling ), so i'll be using some fruit in all my batches... dont know the minimum amount for it to be legal though... :/

Thorin...

So in your country to make wine is legal and to make beer is not? Beer is a wine made from grain...doesn't make much sense.

[knuklehead]

Sure doesn't make much sense, but neither does the fact that we can make beer and wine but not distill the outcome.

[Matt9876]

How much dried bakers yeast would you use in a 25lt rum wash?

[Teddysad]

I know you dug up an old thread but did you read it?

The second post gives the answer

[Prairiepiss]

How much dried bakers yeast would you use in a 25lt rum wash?

Welcome aboard. Please step over to the welcome center and give us an into.

Your best bet is to go to the tried and true recipe section. And find one or all of the rum recipes. And use it. Or at least learn something from it. But you would be better off using the recipe.

[jholmz]

as far as the sugar wash tried and true recipe section has a couple of them the one your describing is the birdwatchers recipe with the tomato paste it gives you the amount of yeast and all

[rad14701]

Wow...!!! A 7.5 year old zombie topic...

[jholmz]

lol didnt even look at the date of first posts rad

[drinkingdog]

Bump. BIG BUMP

[friendly1uk]

Well now I'm here..

I'm using Allinsons dried active yeast. Threads on the net claim 17% results when feeding it in over days. I think 12-14% is about as much as I could hope for in one hit. I have been following rad's all bran thread where bakers is used to make 12% in the basic recipe I have tried, and people talk about aiming for 14%.

I averaged out a number of recipe's to make my own. I'm running it soon, It's stood for a while.
4L water
800g of sugar
25g of yeast
6.5g of yeast nutrient
1g citric

It was going to be 5g of food, but I slipped. On both trial's it bubbled over, when it really shouldn't of. 5g next time. Or maybe less yeast too.
The citric was just in the cupboard. So I used it. Both batch's had different ph as one was Scottish spring at 7.4 and the other 6.4 from Cumbria when sourced. I have not got a ph meter yet, so I have no idea what is going on there