Dunder Pit Rum

[kiwikeg]

Lots of posts on other forums on how to grow a funky dunder pit but not much detail on actually how to use it.
my pit is a seal 20l pail and is about 5 months old,

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there noth rreally any mould but it blew the lid off a few times and smells buttersctochy-sweet nice
here is the sludge at the bottom of the dunder pit looks like yeast cells?

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my plan is to do 2 ferments one with 5l of dunder+water+sugar and one all dunder=sugar
I tipped the dunder into my bop and fired up the 747 and boiled it for 10mins to kill off any pathogenic bacteria

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melted the sugar and cooled with the wort chiller into glass fermenter and pitched Stillspirits Rum Distillery Yeast.

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[kiwikeg]

No action in the all dunder+sugar wash I am thinking pH levels are to blame, the other wash with 5l of dunder is bubbling bit better but not by much.

[Cane Toad]

Add a squeeze of lemon juice to it KK,it done wonders for Mac's :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[kiwikeg]

okay the all aged dunder wash is not doing f-all, but the one with 5l of aged Dunder after a slow start is going off.
going to split the all dunder 20l wash into two fermenters and top off with water to see if that will save it.
I will save adding the lemon juice for when i feel like cleaning the shed floor.

[kiwikeg]

5l wash is fizzing like coke now and the 20l all dunder I split into 2 fermenters and topped up with water has got some airlock action going on at last too...

[kiwikeg]

Seeing as yummy linked to this thread. Heres a brief update fermenters struggled for weeks and ended smelling gross, nothing on earth would have convinced me to distill and drink the results. Tipped fermenters onto vege garden.
I did something very wrong with this wash.