Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Found this at the local woolies yesterday, think I'll give it a go at making a bourbon/whiskey.



It's a nutrigrain knock-off but with different proportions of grains (higher corn:oats ratio). It's 51% cereals, but only 7% corn. Nutrigrain says it has more oats than corn, but doesn't say the percentage. It's also a lot cheaper than nutrigrain on a weight basis.



I don't think I will follow kimbo's recipe as I don't want to use 1.6 kg of cereal in my first wash instead I'm going to use the weetbix allbran wash as a guide.

Weetbix is 97% wheat. I'll take the version of the weetbix all bran (wbab) recipe that I've been using (what I call a weetbix wash) and substitute the Max Charge. I'll roughly double the amount of cereal though to make up for the fact that there's approximately half the grain in the Max Charge. When I do a weetbix wash I use 18 weetbix per 20 L wash. There's 72 weetbix in a 1.2 kg box and 18/72 is 1/4. 1/4 of 1.2 kg is 300 g, so that means I'll need 600 g of the Max Charge. This new stuff comes in 560 g boxes, so I'll just use a full box and be done with it.

I'm going to give the saf gold yeast I got from Andrew a go. I normally use Bakers for weetbix wash. I'll use the same quantity.

I'll run it through 4 plates (no stripping) and age on medium toasted American oak dominoes. Backset and new sugar returned to the fermenter (once cooled) and the process repeated for generations.

So the overall plan for a 20 L wash:
5 kg sugar
560 g box of woolworths Max charge
1.5 teaspoons Epsom salts
1 teaspoon citric acid
Water to the 20 L mark with lots of aeration
1/4 cup saf gold yeast sprinkled on top

Now because I plan on doing generations I'll probably use an airlock. I'll be treating this with more care than I do my weetbix wash for vodka basically :romance-kisscheek:

Since I've only ever done generations with bwko I'm not sure what I should do each generation with respect to the amount of backset and addition of extra Epsom and citric acid. Anyone care to advise?

I'm also going to be putting on some other experiments with the saf gold to compare it to the Bakers. But that's another thread (or two).

I'll keep you posted of progress.

Sounds interesting :handgestures-thumbupleft: I’m going to follow to see how it turns out.

Great work db. So glad there's a new recipe for development, really keen on seeing how it turns out.

Good one mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:
I moved the thread to recipe development for now though until it’s proven :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Doubleuj wrote:Good one mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:
I moved the thread to recipe development for now though until it’s proven :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Oops, my bad 8-} I was browsing the tried and proven while I was drafting the post and simply clicked the new thread button but didn't even think I'd put it in the wrong place! Thanks :handgestures-thumbupleft:

In 20ltrs I would go small amount of backset for a start as it is really only there for ph adjustment more than taste. I'd say 4-5 ltrs max? If you have a ph meter test the wash and see how it goes, you can always add more, taking it back our will be a little harder :laughing-rolling:

I don't add any epsom or citric after first wash as that's what your backset is meant to do. I do add a vitamin B tablet if I feel the need but forget most times...

Good luck mate hope she works a treat :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Good luck with it db... will certainly be watching. :clap:
Will be interested in how the yeast goes... was tempted to get some and play with it a little too.

Any updates ?

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One day :D

I have just finished this wash about to do 2nd generation I am
going to use another 560 gm box of Max Charge, 5kg of sugar , 5lt
of backset etc do yous think that will be Ok

Finally got round to doing this one, but I was too damn lazy to get organised with generations. I've had the first gen on 5 star medium toasted oak now for 3 months and I reckon it's pretty nice. I'm not saying it's the bee's knees but if you're looking for a cereal based bourbon and your local is out of corn flakes, maybe give this a whirl.

Fuuuuck almost a year later :o :?



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