rum infection

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rum infection

Postby benpandaae86 » Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:06 pm

My rum wash had stalled and started to turn its a gen4 and i put 8l of dundar back on 3l of molasses and 3kg of raw sugar

Yesterday i added some bicarb and 20g of yeast its moving again but still looks a little off
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Re: rum infection

Postby Urrazeb » Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:16 pm

What does it smell like?
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Re: rum infection

Postby benpandaae86 » Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:37 pm

It just smells like molasses
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Re: rum infection

Postby benpandaae86 » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:31 pm

I just stuck the hydrometer in and it still reads 1078
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Re: rum infection

Postby Urrazeb » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:27 pm

Hydrometer won't do jack on a mollases wash. The drop will be the same but the reading will always be very high.

If it's working I'd let it run it's course, nothing bad out of an infected wash for me yet :pray:
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Re: rum infection

Postby Meatheadinc » Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:13 pm

I use funky dunder form an aged dunder pit.
I believe its the key to great rum
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Re: rum infection

Postby benpandaae86 » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:48 pm

Sg has gone up to 1090

I think i have 30l of vinegar :puke-huge:
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Re: rum infection

Postby rumdidlydum » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:01 pm

Bad luck mate, I also had a rum wash turn to vinegar, I still ran it but ive kept it aside, I was only on gen 2, I did a bit of reserach on infections and came to the conclusion that the bacteria is always airborne, when we pitch the yeast if it doesn't start off within an 24 hours ie creating the gas, expelling the oxygen in the fermenter is how the bacteria is killed due to being areobic ( can't survive without oxygen). Well thats what my conclusion was any way. :think:
I used the beer brewers sterilize and started again without any other Infection
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Re: rum infection

Postby Marbled » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:21 am

Did you sterilise the kit before starting properly..... Proper properly that is.?
Brewing beer is a great insight into proper cleaning.
Apologies if I'm assuming wrongly, in which case I sympathise.
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Re: rum infection

Postby benpandaae86 » Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:33 am

I had steriliesed everything before but this was gen 4 so it was gettin on but it had stalled for 1.5 days and thisnis when the infection started
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Re: rum infection

Postby benpandaae86 » Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:51 pm

I just went to the shed and to my surprise :o my rum is fermenting the infection is gone the sg is down to 1070 it went up to 1090 whilst the infection was doin its thing yay :D
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Re: rum infection

Postby Marbled » Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:53 pm

There you go then, as ELO so rightly said in the 70's.....
It's A Living Thing.
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Re: rum infection

Postby Andy » Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:51 pm

unlucky mate. vinegar infections are the worst for rum :cry:
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Re: rum infection

Postby benpandaae86 » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:19 pm

1055 today goin slow but still goin
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