Strawberry spirit recipe.

[bluc]

Ok :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[db1979]

Sounds good, I can volunteer for taste testing :D

[wynnum1]

If looking for cheap strawberries from the farm facebook marketplace looks to be the best and up to date some of the farms have been picked clean.

[Sam.]

Any reason for champagne yeast rather than fruit (ec118) type yeast :-B looks good look forward to your thoughts on the brandy..

EC1118 is a champagne yeast.

[DaveZ]

Picked up about 6kgs of strawberries this morning for $10 from the markets so will get a 25l batch going today. Hopefully I can get a few more kilos cheap in a couple weeks to keep the gens going. Also have some ec1118 on hand so will be using that with about 4kg of sugar.

[bluc]

Woollies have taken sewing needles off the shelf... FFS...

There was already an over supply, Ill put my tinfoil hat on and hazzard a guess that either a foreign power, organized crime gang or the farming mafia are behind this to reduce the number of players

Seems tinfoil not needed https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/drug-trafficker-owns-operation-at-centre-of-strawberry-scandal/ar-AAArAt6?ocid=spartandhp

[bluc]

Any reason for champagne yeast rather than fruit (ec118) type yeast :-B looks good look forward to your thoughts on the brandy..

EC1118 is a champagne yeast.

Learn something new every time I log on here. Just a shame I cant remember it all :D I always thought champagne yeast was faster ferment higher yield less flavour as opposed to EC118 :-B

[Plumby]

Buy as many as you can while they are cheap. Chop them up and freeze them. Best thing about freezing them is when they defrost they let all their juices out which just adds more flavour too the finished product.

[RuddyCrazy]

EC1118 yeast is the bees knees for fermenting stuff that aint grain based. I used it on with my Chilli and it got down to 990 with leaving buggerall trub and a nice clear wash. I'm glad I got a kilo off it in the group buy as that yeast is my staple on wash's.

Cheers Bryan

[Plumby]

Ok guys, did my first strip run of this today. Put a good 40 litres into the keg boiler, then added a splash of water and a good sprinkle of sugar onto the Lee's so the yeast would be up and running ready for the next gen.
I tried to keep as much fruit out of the boiler so it wouldnt scorch and stick to my element but some still got in. So I ran it at about 75% power to try to avoid any scorching.
While the boiler was coming up to temp I mixed 10 litres of hot tap water, 8 kg white sugar and 5kg frozen strawberries that I had defrosted overnight. Mixed the living bejesus out of it for 10 minutes with a drill and mortar mixer attachment then poured it into the fermenter with the Lee's from the first gen and topped it up to 40 litres, I'll add 5-6 litres of backset tomorrow morning when the still cools down then top up to 50 litres.
I ended up with a touch over 7 litres of low wines from this strip run so the yeast is definitely doing its job.
My stilling area smelt amazing when I was running the still and you can definitely smell the strawberries in the low wines and i had a sneeky taste from the middle of tbe strip run and it tastes great, very similar to the strawberry panty dropper recipe.

[Listo]

Sounds unreal mate, I wish the cook had bought a heap of strawberries while she was in brissie now... I read your post & she got a wide on about the idea of it :mrgreen: It does make me think though, if mangoes or lychees will be available at a good price when I go up to to Sarina, to try something similar :think:

[Plumby]

To be honest since I started this strawberry wash my google search history is full of fruit ine recipe searches.
Just need to find a place that is selling the fruit for next to nothing.
I love Lychees if i could get them cheap I'd have a 220 litre fermenter full pretty quick.

[RC Al]

Try around the rocklea markets - you should be able to pick up about to expire fruit for next to nothing

[Plumby]

Thanks for the tip RC, I'll put the hard word on the local guys first, Rocklea is a near 4 hour round trip from my place.

[Plumby]

I had planned on doing a spirit run of this today so I charged my boiler last night with 7 litres of low wines and topped the boiler up to 40 litres with the wash of gen 2.
Unfortunately unexpected stuff happened and I ended up doing another strip run instead.
Same as before 75% power to avoid any scorching of fruit in the boiler, ended up with 14 litres of beautiful smelling low wines from the run. :think:
I managed to grab one cut jar of the heart section of the run and watered it down to 40% and I must say it is effing delicious. Put gen 3 down this arvo can't wait for my final spirit run.