Guava Passion strawberry

[RaceReadyStillz]

This is my recount of my attempt at a tropical shine. It started with an idea, like all ideas it needed workshopping but after a short while I came to this. I’ll start by saying I used a 33 Gal fermenter but I’m using only 23-25 gals of space. I went to WinCo Foods which for those that don’t know is just a bulk foods place. I went to the frozen juice section and collected a total of 37 cans of Hawaiis own frozen juice concentrate, comprised of guava juice, guava strawberry and guava strawberry passion fruit flavors. I got on Amazon and ordered these 16oz bottles of guava concentrate, then I got 4 25oz bottles of guava cane syrup, 1 gal of passion fruit cane syrup/puree mix, 27 lbs of sugar which I first boiled with citric acid in order to invert the sugar and break it down into short chain to reduce off flavors and make it easy to get at for the yeasts. I then filled it to 25 gallons with some boiling water followed by cold water and a whole bowl of sliced up pineapple, strawberries and dragon fruit. I added 5 packs of Lavin QA-23 because it’s known to make and preserve “ tropical flavors” this is where it went differently than usual. See my starting gravity was a respectable 1.080 .. dead on for a good fruit brandy. After 3 weeks I checked it and I was only at 1.040… so another 2 weeks goes by and 1.030…???? So another 2 weeks goes by and it was 1.015. I gave up and called the homie over to get busy. My boy and I ran my 16 gal stainless pot with a decent size sight glass on my column stuffed with copper mesh, into my 8 gal stainless thump which I added mash and flavored syrups to and then into the worm. Simple but effective system. The whole thing was so delicious and delicious smelling that I couldn’t find the tails. I had to check a jar with a flashlight to see if it was cloudy or oily. The heads was deceiving AF, I had to really pay attention and do small cuts and test it constantly to find my hearts. That obviously leads us to the hearts. It was that dusty sweet guava flavor in the back and all tropical blend flavor up front. None of it was harsh. I haven’t done a better job on a fruit run. Even blackberry was less desirable and it was amazing. Anyway if you have anything to add to my recipe or technique I’m open because its definitely going to happen again in the future and I recommend y’all try it.

[RaceReadyStillz]

I attempted to list my links to exactly what I used to make this but as soon as I post them in here they don’t work.. if anyone is interested I’ll tell exactly what it is