I used the recipe below and all looked good except I realized my sugar was to high after I poured the yeast in.
After 3 days of no action(the yeast I started quit)
So I split it into two pails so that I would have room to add a gal of water to each after which I checked the sp/gr and found it 1.01
what the heck? the wash is not very sweet?
any ideas? Thanks in advance
- 1st batch August 12th 2019 clean and sterilize 20L UFA bucket, and boiler pot making 15-18L batch
- measured 4L distilled water into canning pot (stainless pot won’t work on convection plate)
- bring water to 140F / 60C
- add 3.060 kg white sugar and stir
- add 0.535 brown sugar and stir
- turn heat off
- add 3 x 675g Blackstrap Molasses or 2025g
- stir till all is mixed
- sp/gr 1.128
- started yeast and sat for 20 mins, pitch yeast and stired it in.
- !!Note I hope the wash was not to warm around 30C!!