Natjac wrote:I put down two initial washes in 30L fermenters and slightly modified the original recipe to reduce from a 25-30L to about a 20L wash in each fermenter. The reason I did this, is that I have a 50L keg boiler and I wanted to run about 30-35L as a max.
I run a 50 ltr keg boiler too, ive been putting 40ltrs or a touch over in my runs. Occasionally it pukes during heat up while both elements are going. I just shut it down for 5-10 mins and let things settle before firing back up and heating the last bit with one element. To date this stopped the problem from re accuring during the run.
Prob should add i do use a dollop of oil in the run too.
Natjac wrote:After the stripping run I mixed two buckets ready to mix in with the sludge from the original washes. Each bucket contained about 7L from the remnants in the boiler from the stripping run, 2.5L of molasses, 2kg raw sugar, 0.5kg brown sugar, a pinch of Epson and a dash of DAP. I added water and then mixed it with the remnants in each fermenter, to a total volume of 21L. The original washes were done with SAF Gold yeast and I didn't add any more yeast to the second attempt. The temp of the buckets was about 33C when I mixed them back into the fermenters.
The problem I am having is that there is no action happening in either fermenter.
With my experiences with rum i would be surprised if you wont have to adjust the ph at some point after adding that much dunder in next the gen. I can't guarantee thats the reason you have no action atm, but you will want to keep an eye on it.
If you dont want to waste a heap of yeast finding out just put 200ml of the wash in a glass jug and sprinkle a little yeast on top... you will soon see if anything happens.