Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hi all,

Decided to do a little experiment out of shits and giggles and I guess, just boredom.
So I was flushing the starch packing peanuts down the sink when I thought, I wonder what if angel yellow label + these would equal anything. I figured, they're essentially just starch and air, so, let's see. Also, yes I know they're not 100% "food safe".
So I dissolved about 4 x 5L jugs (not much of a measurement I know, and there won't be much as this was a bit of a half assed experiment) worth of peanuts in regular ol tap water. Gave it a good mix up and poured it into a 5L demijohm. Added a sprinkle of epsom salts and a pinch of DAP (because) and adjusted ph down to about 5.5 (was around 7.5 before) with a pinch of citric acid. Added a teaspoon of angel yellow label. Woke up this morning aannndd... airlock activity.... fermenting away. Not at lightning pace, but, going regularly enough.
Where to from here? Don't know. It'll probably taste like ass (even worse maybe), I'm debating whether or not to actually run it to ser the end result. As for use, unless you get a lot of these regularly, or they're cheap as (I get them in deliveries from time to time, so csm be saved up), I'm not sure if it'd be worth it or not, which I suppose depends on the taste as well? If it tastes like garbage, I guess it could be used as fuel or what ever, rather than just flushing the starch.
As for proper measurements, I guess it's something that could be done another time if it's deemed worthwhile enough. So I guess we'll just see what we see.

Distilled peanuts gotta be a first..
Right?

I see peanut butter whiskey in your future :D
Run it via pot or plates to get flavour first worst case reflux it. I remember someone trying Bunya nuts wonder how that ended up...

Distilling peanuts is definitely a first.

Drinking result is definitely brave, that is really taking one for the team :laughing-rolling:

oh no, PBW (peanut butter whiskey) will be a confusing acronym :smile:

I feel I may have opened a can of worms here :laughing-rolling:
As for a first distilling it, I think I may be. As for fermenting with it, when I initially did some research on it, I saw some guy from the states adding 5% of these dissolvable packing peanuts to his beer brew, I'd assume to bulk it out. This however is exclusively packing peanuts, so :think: .
Wellp, you guys and the Mrs have talked me into running it when it's done (she said if you're going to experiment may as well go all the way). So I'll run it through my 2" pot. If it goes to shit, I'll throw the end result in next time I run neutral through the bubbler, or worst case just turf it.
Funnily enough, having a look through google, these bastards are pretty cheap. Saw a 400L bag for sale for $33. As for how much fermentable sugar that'd convert to, I've got no idea where I'd even start to work it out.
Any ideas?

Also, day 2:
Even though I accidentally left it in the cold laundry overnight, still bubbling away.

Are these things even food ??????

Just had a chat with SWMBO and honestly you would be better off getting some bog paper and using that instead, either way if one starts with a turd no matter how much you try and polish it it's not a hard answer to find what it still is :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Edit: after talking a bit more when I mentioned the bog paper she said well you get more flavour out of it :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

The Stig wrote:Are these things even food ??????

Well, depends on what you call food :laughing-rolling:
They're safe to "eat" if you or your animals were to consume them, as opposed to the polystyrene ones. But, they taste like, well, nothing, maybe bordering of ass. As it's just starch and air.

RuddyCrazy wrote:Just had a chat with SWMBO and honestly you would be better off getting some bog paper and using that instead, either way if one starts with a turd no matter how much you try and polish it it's not a hard answer to find what it still is :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Edit: after talking a bit more when I mentioned the bog paper she said well you get more flavour out of it :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

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Oh don't worry. I'm not expecting anything good to come of this. To be honest, the thought only came about from me thinking was there any other possible use for these other than flushing them down the sink(as I was) or compost.
If it results in something half palatable, even as a neutral, then eh, atleast it'll beat turbos and likely be cheaper. If not, maybe it can be used as fuel or what ever, if it's cheap enough.
But, that's all unlikely :razz: