Pineapple Juice Base

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I haven't seen any posts of anyone making a pineapple shine from start to finish so I'm going to document my experiment here. If anyone has any advice or feedback as we go along please let me know as I'm flying into this one blind.

I am doing 2 batches in 5 gallon fermenters. Each fermenter has 13 cans of pineapple juice, 46 floz size. To each one I added approximately 1/2 cup of corn sugar that I had left over from some old beer brewing kits. I did not add any yeast nutrient, acid, or anything, just the pineapple juice and a little bit of corn sugar. I took a gravity reading and got about 1.055. I threw in 2 sachets of champagne yeast to each fermenter. This all started on Tuesday (it's now Friday).

I also started 2 batches of mead, but that's a different story.


Recipe:
13 x 46 oz pineapple juice (Dole) = 4.67 gallons
1/2 cup corn sugar (powdered)
2 x sachet Champagne Yeast
Original Gravity approx 1.055 (didn't take a temperature reading so not exact)