Hi All, I've been reading up on What you guys have to say, and I'm being general here. Everyone seems to have their preferences...fair enough.
I really don't understand the general negativity toward the turbo yeast, is it because it's part of the Still Spirits Turbo500 system? From what I've read, it's a strain of yeast suited to producing alcohol...as opposed to bakers yeast (I have been a baker in my youth, and bakers yeast is great for rising bread etc because it produces a lot of CO2 from sugar.) Turbo 8 produces alcohol very quickly.
My other question has to do with turbo carbon. I have done a few washes without the turbo carbon with no noticeable difference to the quality of my spirit. I'm wondering if anyone has done a spectrographic analysis of the product with and without the turbo carbon?(I think it may be a gimmick) I personally run a wash with 1kg sugar per 5 ltrs of water using turbo 8 yeast in a 25 ltrs wash at around 25 deg C. It's done in less than 48 hours and I yeald about 500ml alcohol per kg of sugar and keep the middle half. The rest I give to my Dad for his alcohol stove which now burns beautifully without soot as opposed to metho. Not wanting to offend or start a shit fight :)