Now I’m back stilling again I decided to get cracking with a neutral wash first to build up the vodka stocks before chrissy.
This is for a 180 litre wash. Using the site calculators it should end up around 11.8% alcohol.
After reading Ace Highs foolproof neutral recipe on AD heres the version I put down last night:-
Ingredients
* 36 kg white sugar
* 35g citric acid
* 1 kg six row malted light lager grain
* 10 teaspoons Epsom salts
* half a cup of red star premium cuvee wine yeast
* water
Method
* Dissolve sugar with boiling water and add citric acid (I did this in batches of around 6kg of sugar mixed up in a ss stockpot, then added to fermenter when dissolved)
* Fill up to around 140 litre mark with water, stirring heaps
*Add grain, epsom salts and yeast, stir some more while topping up to 180 litre mark with more water.
Checked today and its fizzing and popping away nicely. Not super aggressive, just doing its thing...
Will let you know how it goes.. :)