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50L molasses couple b vitamins a tablespoon Epsom salts yeast and water! Subsequent gens use 20 to 30L of dunder. That's my 200L rum wash.

bluc wrote:astro would prob lose about 1/3rd volume.. good mollasses is about 50% fermentble sugar.

Its already finished fermenting mate, what a cock up

Can always add more sugar now astro :handgestures-thumbupleft: it will just fire back up as long as your sure you only put half the sugar in.. I have had 200l wash with right amount sugar finish in 3 days :handgestures-thumbupleft:

bluc wrote:Can always add more sugar now astro :handgestures-thumbupleft: it will just fire back up as long as your sure you only put half the sugar in.. I have had 200l wash with right amount sugar finish in 3 days :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Positive mate, still got the packets in the shed.
Whats the go with disolving it first? or just ad the other 10kg to the barrel and mix it up

You got 10kg water? Dissolve in 10l boiling water. If you fermenter is coolish 20-25 put it straight in will warm it up and liven up the yeadt if it watm temp controlled cool it to same temp first. Extra 10l wont make sfa difference..

Sorry I meant you got 10kg sugar. Dissolve in 10l boiling water then depending on fermenter temp add it hot or cold..

bluc wrote:Sorry I meant you got 10kg sugar. Dissolve in 10l boiling water then depending on fermenter temp add it hot or cold..

done mate thankyou, fermenter temp still sitting nicely on 30

3rd gen going to be cutting it close for head space, better stay up for a while

Looks tasty, you gotta straw :D

I bet that smells amazing.

bluc wrote:Looks tasty, you gotta straw :D

just going to get better mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

nuddy wrote:I bet that smells amazing.

For those first couple of days there is nothing better :happy-wavemulticolor:

Going to have a more serious go at doing rum generations I think. Ordered a pH meter and a small stainless aquarium heater to keep the temps up. Also have a bit of a festy dunder pit going on. Not sure what I'll do with that yet, probably incorporate it into a ferment somewhere along the line.



I have a second gen bubbling away at the moment, but its slow due to the low night time temps at the moment and maybe pH. Hoping to kick off gen 3 next week and get some rummy goodness back in the cupboard.

It's been at least 2 years since I have made anything due to moving across America and whatnot, but I'm back at it! A guy I work with said he wanted some moonshine for the Macgregor-Kabib fight....I said I'd help! I showed him how to do UJSSM and we have done 4 strips and the spirit run is tonight. But it got me fired back up about making rum again. I'm not much of a whiskey guy. I bought 4 gallons of feed molasses and it's fermenting away now. I plan on doing 4 strips and then a spirit run with dunder. Hopefully it stays warm enough to get a good pit going again too!

Got a live dunder rum wash going today. 14 litres of molasses, water to make it to about 46 litres total volume, hydrated SAF bakers yeast, pitched and aerated with a paint stirrer in the Makita. Let the yeast do its thing for a while until it was bubbling along nicely then threw in 5 litres of live dunder. Keen to see how this one turns out.

Stripped gen 2 today. I now have about 30 liters of low wines, one more strip should be enough for a 1.5 spirit run. My pit had a good bubbly scum on the top. It has a chopped up dirty potato and a brown overripe plantain chopped up in it.

Pitched yeast in gen 3 this morning, now it's like a rolling boil :razz:

I'd there specific bacteria you chase by adding potato and banana?

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere I just can't find it. What do you do with your rum heads? I keep the tails for the next run however I am getting quite a collection of heads and am not sure what to do with them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

You can put them with tails for feints run. I used to. I used to ditch fores though. I don't do feints now I have a bubbler, others do..

Thanks Bluc, agreed with the fores. If you don't do a feints run now what do you do do with your cuts heads and tails? If I stick the heads in with the next run won't they just accumulate?