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Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:25 pm
by ozgar
Hi, on monday 15-02-10 at 9:51 i started to ferment my wash out of molasses, I used 3 parts of water per one of molasses, i reached 30 Brix, i used Liquor Quick Turbo Yeast X-Press w/agents, i used like 80 gms of it. i mixed them all, then i closed it with a homemade airlock, which is a plastic tube that goes to water bottle, filled with water. I think something is going wrong because i haven´t seen any air bubbles on it, but i see that it has all those bubbles in top of the wash, and i see that is fermenting, because i looked at it and i saw that it was like making little bubbles inside the wash
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:09 pm
by Tater
Thats kinda heavy on the brix Id add water to drop to 25 or so . You probably got a leak in your blubber somewhere
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:15 pm
by rad14701
ozgar wrote:i mixed them all, then i closed it with a homemade airlock,
Assuming that "it" is a plastic bucket, you might have a leaky lid seal... You could try sealing the lid to the bucket using duct/duck tape...
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:35 pm
by ozgar
tater wrote:Thats kinda heavy on the brix Id add water to drop to 25 or so . You probably got a leak in your blubber somewhere
hi, what can i do, because it is very well sealed with duct tape and plactic bag, note: i used a plastic carboy, and what can i do to get those 25 Brix, because if i open it, oxygen will come in. what should i do ??? HELP ME!!!!!
also how long it takes to ferment everything??? i also heard that blackstrap molasses do not ferment very well :S
HELP MEEEE!!!!
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:26 pm
by Tater
Airs not gonna hurt it.Ya should of stirred some in wash
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:56 pm
by ozgar
thank you i just added watter, and i proved it and it doesn´t taste like alcohol, how much time does it take to ferment??
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:06 pm
by Tater
depending on several factors can take long as a month . you used turbo yeast so that should of had added nutrients. if temp is kept 75 0r so should do fairly quick say week or so. When it quits bubbling its should be done.Be a good time to start reading and doing searches on questions ya have.
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:17 pm
by still crazy
How deep into your bottle of water is your tube?
You only need about 1/2" in case of evaporation 6" or more is quite a bit of bubbles to push the water out of the tube may take a while.
Just a thought.
Re: Blackstrap molasses fermentation not air bubbling
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:23 pm
by ozgar
still crazy wrote:How deep into your bottle of water is your tube?
You only need about 1/2" in case of evaporation 6" or more is quite a bit of bubbles to push the water out of the tube may take a while.
Just a thought.
i think that might be the problem, the tube is long, it goes from the top of the carboy, to almost the bottom of it, because i grabbes the bottle with the carboy with duct tape.
Thank you guys
