All Bran Recipe

[rad14701]

If anyone has been keeping up with my Gerber recipe they may also be interested in this recipe. It is almost identical to the Gerber recipe aside from using All Bran breakfast cereal (or Total cereal) instead of the Gerber Barley cereal. Both LWTCS and I have been tinkering with this recipe and have been more than pleased with the overall results. This is a very simple recipe for novices or anyone else who wants an almost fool proof recipe.

Per 4 liters (1 gallon) of water:

Ingredients
* 3.5 cups sugar
* 4 liters water
* 1 cup crushed All Bran cereal
* 2 tbsp active baking yeast

Process
* Simmer equal amounts of water and sugar for 30 minutes or longer to invert sugar.
* Combine boiled components with cold water and cereal to bring up to total volume.
* Let cool to 95F.
* Pitch yeast.
* Aerate for one hour.
* Cap and insert air lock.

Notes
* No lemon juice was used while inverting the sugar. Doing so may or may not be of benefit.
* A full cup of cereal may be more than required for a 4 liter batch. 3/4 cup should be enough.
* With all of the vitamins and minerals present within this cereal it appears that no other ingredients should be required.
* Should fully ferment dry within 7 days.
* The wash should start to clear by the time the ferment is complete so it can be racked directly into the boiler, leaving the solids behind.
* This recipe should provide good results with pot stills or reflux stills.
* Essentially, 1 liter water, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cereal, 1/2 tablespoon yeast, scaled to desired batch size.

Good Luck... Feedback welcome...

[myddboss]

Ohh hi

I tried a variation on this using generic brand bran cereal

What I'm finding is the scent/flavour is really something else, somehow I get the impression of pears or pear cider scent coming through.

Also I used bakers yeast (lowans) and the fermentation was ready after 10 days.

Through my pot still with thumper the abv is above 80% for my strip run so far, for the first 2L other mashes with bakers yeast were not so intense.

Unfortunately I don't have the SG for the mash as I was lacking a hydrometer but the atartingph was above 7 for the start of the mash

[A BIT DIFFERENT]

Good day RAD

I am very interested to try this recipe, however I have a question and would really like some advice and your thoughts. I can get LME very cheaply and have a 25ltr drum full. I wanted to know, (seeing as though your recipe does not use grain) whether I could use the LME instead of sugar? This would make it a "mixed grain" whiskey?

Please let me know what you think, and if it is doable, what would the quantities/ratio be?

Waiting in anticipation.

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[acfixer69]

LME has been used by many. It is not cost effective for most of us. Do a search of LME app.php/googlesearch?cx=012980085383122 ... itesearch= Plenty of information there.