woodduck wrote:Get rid of the dextrose, carbon and conditioner cause you won't need them if you do cuts and not use turbo yeast.
If you go to all grain or grain sugar heads you will have a bit more cost but if you use cornflakes and wheetbix it will be cheaper. Like all hobbies, I can spend big or go small and simple :handgestures-thumbupleft:
RC Al wrote:I think your numbers are a bit off too,
A VERY basic dodgy work out - 25l of wash at 8% is 2l of 100% alcohol or 4@50% 5@40% you roughly loose 5% per run, so end result would be UPTO 4.6L @40% then loose 1/2 ish for cuts, so you might end up with 10% of the initial wash size at drinking strength,
RC Al wrote:Ahh I get it, you were working from a 15-20% turbo yeast basis
Have a bit more of a read of the rum recipes in the recipes section here, I doubt anyone here will recommend the turbo yeast at all for rum
Charcoal + rum= white rum
The 50 l keg boiler is a great start, larger ones on the cheap are a bit harder to find
RC Al wrote:Even at username's rate it's only $8 litre, the real killer is time, that's 6 runs at 3? Or more Hours each, hence my general encouragement for people to go large straight up
Aging storage is a real cost too
Nino wrote:If you want to save time and only do one distilling run then you could get a 4 plate bubbler, depending on how much you want to spend.
I guess it all depends on what you want and how valuable your time is to you.
With regards,
Nino
woodduck wrote:Oh and just incase you thought about it, NEVER leave a still unattended. It could end really bad :law-policered: safety is paramount in this hobby :handgestures-thumbupleft:
warramungas wrote:No way I'd be doing this if my plonk was costing almost as much to make as buying it from the shop.
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