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i am going to start a new Bach and i have alcotec 23% turbo yeast and it say you must use dextrose mononydrate
and not normal sugar can you tell me what will happen if i use normal sugar ???

It'll work with regular sugar as well as the expensive hydrated stuff. Might want to flush it and get some baker's yeast for better flavor.

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Better Method if you absolutely HAVE to use Turbo Yeast
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doncoyote wrote:i am going to start a new Bach and i have alcotec 23% turbo yeast and it say you must use dextrose mononydrate
and not normal sugar can you tell me what will happen if i use normal sugar ???

it might taste like crap
...then again, it might taste like crap with the dextrose too .
If you're trying to make stove fuel, go right ahead and use the turbo , but if you're plannin to make booze, use one of the tried n true recipes, you'll get vastly better results.

Ive never used the 23% yeast. But i have used turbo 24 hour yeast on a honey/sugar wash and the result was something that smelled like eggs which carried onto the first still run, and onto the 2nd. though now the egg smell is gone from the spirit after a few days of airing out.

Im still reluctant to actually drink this, it smells like vodka but the eg smell put me off.

you need to use activated carbon with turbo yeasts, and once its done turbo klhar to clear the solution.

I still have most of the packet of turbo yeast as i done a 1 gallon test run and only used a little of the packet. the rest is going in the bin.

A friend of mine however did do a corn meal sour mash using distillers yeast and managed to get a very nice moonshine whiskey

bazsound, if you read between the lines of the help being provided you should be able to tell that people are trying to steer you away from the turbo yeast greed factor that novices fall victim to... Do you want quality or quantity spirits...??? Because you can't have both - at least not easily and economically... You can either heed the advice being provided or blunder away and wonder why you keep having bad results... You already know what happens when you blunder away because you have ended up nasty results...

heartcut wrote:It'll work with regular sugar as well as the expensive hydrated stuff. Might want to flush it and get some baker's yeast for better flavor.

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Why on earth would you want to use 23% yeast?

I think you have some reading to do.

Most commercial distilleries don't go over 10-11%. Some only go 8% or lower.

You'll never produce a high quality product if your main intent is to produce the highest possibly quantity of alcohol.

Like I always say, the frat boy mentality is not going to work if you want to produce a quality spirit.

Turbo yeast and high gravity sugar washes are a strange affliction that seems to plague the novice. Carbon filtering is a hassle and it's an expensive extra step that doesn't need to be taken if you use a tried and true recipe. Besides, turbo yeast is also more expensive, and you can get a better result even if you only used sugar, bakers yeast, and much more water in your wash. But since you have turbo yeast you could try it, then try bakers yeast with an equal weight of sugar, aim for a 5% wash, and compare the results of the finished product.

5% is close to the min on a Ag mash 6.5 seems to be my average, if you are doing sugar head I shoot for 11% high end 9% low end! Do the best you can to make quality!

Amen Uncle Jess, you boys might aughta listen to em...ya might accidentally learn somthin...

you probably gathered by now that turbo's aint popular round these parts. there is no need to throw the turbo away tho. they make an exlant sourse of nutiants for a sugar head. just boil the piss out of it for 15 -20 minuits [ 1/2 cup or less for a 5 gal. batch] along with your sugar, than pitch yeast when cool. you may want to boil outside however, its gonna smell like a dog fart but the smell goes away after it cools down.

doncoyote wrote:i am going to start a new Bach and i have alcotec 23% turbo yeast and it say you must use dextrose mononydrate
and not normal sugar can you tell me what will happen if i use normal sugar ???

Regular sugar will work just fine. Add enought to get 7-12% alcohol.