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Is there any flavor I can add to mash, that will add flavor to my product?

Sure there is ... what kind of mash are you talking about?, and what about flavors?

for instance , a couple tablespoons of black pepper in your wash would certainly add some flavor to your hooch .
Ground cinnamon might be more in line with your tastes tho .
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Thanks. I just had made the batch from hell! I used a sweet feed recipe. 3 inches of sweet feed in bucket 2 gals. water, 2 lbs chopped apples 6 lbs. sugar . followed instructions - boiled water, added sugar apples, stirred for 15 minutes, added 3 gallons water, let cool for 90 minutes, checked temp till 90 deg. added 10 oz still spirits turbo yeast power. stirred slowly for 10 min. Poured all this in 5 gal carboy. 2-3 hrs later I was getting a good bubble from airlock. next morning bubbles slowed, and by 5 oclock they stopped. I waited a few hours then checked alcohol, there was none. W.T.F. did I do wrong? Pat.

what hydrometer did you use? you cant check for alcohol but you check for lack of sugar.
its from hell as you used a lot of sugar and turbo yeast

where did this recipe come from?

The temp was probably to hot when you added the Turbo. I would take a 12oz glass of orange juice and get to 75 Fahrenheit and add a couple packs of bread yeast till it foams for a half hour or so the gently stir into your mash without introducing oxygen. should be going by the morning. Don't add another pack of turbo yeast because it probably has more nutrients that you don't need. Make sure you let it settle really well to get out all the yeast.

Sled head wrote:The temp was probably to hot when you added the Turbo. I would take a 12oz glass of orange juice and get to 75 Fahrenheit and add a couple packs of bread yeast till it foams for a half hour or so the gently stir into your mash without introducing oxygen. should be going by the morning. Don't add another pack of turbo yeast because it probably has more nutrients that you don't need. Make sure you let it settle really well to get out all the yeast.

where did you get this info from.

i would advise against any of this.

the problem is simply a bad wash, to much sugar when added with the apples, and a stupid turbo.. scrap the whole thing and head over to the tried and true section for a recipe that wont fail.. learn the basics before you experiment with recipes and flavoring. take it slow and steady.

Orange juice is simply a 21 brix on average solution that most people have on hand. It just eliminates the need to figure out the brix before starting the yeast. Im not trying to give bad advice but it is a proven method. I have had a mash stick because I added the yeast at 90f and added more yeast and it turned out fine.

Sled head wrote:Orange juice is simply a 21 brix on average solution that most people have on hand. It just eliminates the need to figure out the brix before starting the yeast. Im not trying to give bad advice but it is a proven method. I have had a mash stick because I added the yeast at 90f and added more yeast and it turned out fine.

it wasn't the part about you suggesting a method (although im not familiar with that sort of yeast bomb) it was just the fact that he has stated the a wash using turbo yeast and that the wash already tasted bad. i would not go adding a citric starter like OJ to a wash that contains sweet feed and apple along with a turbo. it will be putrid

and he already had a large amount of yeast in the first place. i don't think adding more yeast is the answer it will just add to the of flavors.

Just-a-sip. After reading back through the post and thinking more, your right. If it already tastes bad all your going to do is concentrate the flavor during distillation. Turbo is defiantly the wrong yeast to use in that.