So how bad is turbo? I'm going to find out. The interwebs is packed full of people replying to first time stillers who are after advice on their first distillation, and they are replied to by tens of people advising them to drop the turbo and go with one of the cleaner, cheaper methods like TPW or TFFV and the like.
Well getting close to Christmas, I put down 100lt of TPW hoping to get her stilled before the big day. Unfortunately, I got over confident and eye balled everything including the water volume and the hydrochloric acid. Turns out, I under watered and after 5 days, I tasted and she was still a bit sweet. I blew the dust of the refractometer and gave it a test. 11 brix. Whoops! I did the same with the PH meter. 3.0 double whoops! So after adding more water and raising the PH to 4, she is still bubbling away, but won't be ready until Christmas eve (if i'm lucky).
What do I do? I can't bring myself to buy vodka, and I'm not dealing with my family sober.
Enter the turbo. The alcotec 24 hour to be specific. How bad can it be?? I mean, if I strip then run it through my big dirty 1.5 metre boka that could strip the tar off a hooker’s teeth, would it be drinkable?
I mean it’s just ethanol produced quickly, and it doesn’t contain fertilizer anymore from what I’ve read. Even Odin rates the 48 hour turbo and he hasn’t steered me astray in the 10 years I’ve been reading his posts.
SO onto the experiment. Last night I mixed 12kg of sugar with enough water to hit the 50lt mark and threw in 2 packs of Alcotec 24 hour turbskies. (22 Brix)
Mother of F***K did it take off. Like I could feel a stream of C02 shooting out the airlock hole.
12 hours later, she’s fizzing away like nothing I’ve ever seen before. 12 brix. Wow.
This afternoon after work I plan of dropping some gelatine in there to settle all the crap if it’s done fermenting and run it tomorrow.
I’ll keep you all updated.