Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby LikkerSheWillLoveIt » Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:03 pm

So I’ve just put down my first WBAB wash.

It’s made out of breakfast cereal, so that makes it a morning drink yeah?
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby The Stig » Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:07 pm

Wouldn’t be the first time I had weetbix for breakfast :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Amberale » Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:58 pm

I haven’t been able to find this anywhere here.
Is it possible to substitute a horse feed wheat bran for the AllBran or is the fact that the Allbran has been cooked important?
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Birdman85 » Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:12 am

Amberale wrote:I haven’t been able to find this anywhere here.
Is it possible to substitute a horse feed wheat bran for the AllBran or is the fact that the Allbran has been cooked important?


When I buy my wheat bran for brewing, I buy it from my local stock produce barn. It would be the same thing as the horse feed you're describing.

Go for it. Mine was $2 a kg/bag. You really can't go wrong.
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Amberale » Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:24 am

Birdman85 wrote:
Amberale wrote:I haven’t been able to find this anywhere here.
Is it possible to substitute a horse feed wheat bran for the AllBran or is the fact that the Allbran has been cooked important?


When I buy my wheat bran for brewing, I buy it from my local stock produce barn. It would be the same thing as the horse feed you're describing.

Go for it. Mine was $2 a kg/bag. You really can't go wrong.


Bewdy, that’s what I use for my FFVW.
It’s about $25 for a 20kg bag.
Not really worried about the cost but so much more convenient to get one big bag than half a dozen boxes from the supermarket.
I put it in a 20 litre molasses bucket and into the freezer to kill any bugs.

I’ve been using equal weights of Weetbix and Allbran(500grams for a 60 litre wash IIRC).

:)
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby McCraggen » Fri Apr 30, 2021 2:03 pm

I just chucked down my first WBAB

I changed it up a little for my 55L FV

10kg dextrose
6 cups crushed weetbix
6 cups all bran
8 cap fulls of still spirits nutrient
approx 20g of ec-1118

28C start temp

I also simmered the weetbix and all bran for 30 mins on low temp. :obscene-drinkingchug:
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby The Stig » Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:40 pm

McCraggen wrote:approx 20g of ec-1118

Thats going to be a long slow ferment, EC-1118 is possibly the slowest yeast to use in a weet-bix wash, better of using bakers yeast instead
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Professor Green » Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:34 pm

:text-+1:

I did one that took months to complete. I'll never use EC-1118 for WBAB again!

Think dextrose is probably overkill for distilling purposes too.
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Amberale » Sat May 08, 2021 9:19 pm

I’m about to do a gen2 of this wash and I’m planning on the following.

I have the Lees/Trub from 2 x 55litre washes.
I am planning on splitting this into 4 70litre fermenters and adding some cold water(20 litres or so).

Separately, in 4 batches, add 10 litres of hot backset to my normal amount of sugar(12 kgs I think) and then half my normal amount of WeetBix and Bran.(Enough backset?)

Stir it up, let it cool, add it to the big fermenters and add hot&cold water to adjust the temperature and water level.
Adjust PH and seal it up.

Do I need to simmer the WB&B or is that just to soften it?

What else have I forgotten?
Thanks folks
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Wellsy » Sun May 09, 2021 6:37 am

I have only done this for vodka so no generations for me but I only every tip the whole pack and a half of wheat bix in mate I have never bothered even breaking them up, much less simmering them
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Amberale » Sun May 09, 2021 8:17 am

Jeepers, you’re up early Wellsy.
I hope you were busy making pancakes for your missus for Mothers day.
When she has had brekky you can take off the maids outfit and sneak down to the shed.

I have only done a couple of this wash before but always follow the original recipe.
It’s not that hard buy I’v got no idea if it makes any difference.
Ditto for the FFV wash but in that I use horse feed bran that hasn’t been pre roasted, still no idea what simmering actually does. :)
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby RC Al » Sun May 09, 2021 9:16 am

Recon you will be fine without the simmering, I believe its to release vitamins and minerals for the yeast, as there is a fair qty of yeast already present it should be fine.
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Wellsy » Sun May 09, 2021 10:08 am

Was a sleep in for me today Amberale.
Usually up at 5:30 most morning have been for years. Ever since 1 year of dairy farming, body clock never went back to the traditional 7:00 am wake up time.
One of these days when I am over your way I will call and we can have a decent chat of you don’t mind, no idea when lol, but we can sit in that little shed of yours and pick each others brains ,mine won’t take long,lol
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Amberale » Sun May 09, 2021 10:52 am

Thanks Al, that’s what I figured.
I might leave this generation simple and add a vitamin tablet and a spoon of Epsom salts to the next one.

Sounds good Wellsy, just remember I’m on the wagon until September.
You might get more sense out of me until then. :)
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby Wellsy » Sun May 09, 2021 3:59 pm

I went by your area last Thursday coming home from Geelong. Not sure when I will be down that way next but will give you a yell
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby LikkerSheWillLoveIt » Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:16 pm

I’ve got 6 x 21L ferments just finished fermenting yesterday, second consecutive day at 990, still sitting in my new ferment fridge cupboard at 28C and the temp at home tomorrow (North East NSW) is forecast for 8C, is it worth using the elements too cold crash this wash? Seems like pretty good conditions for it too happen.
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby NFI » Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:23 am

Hi All
I am wanting to do a 50L version of this and just want to check on the amounts.
So I calculated about 7.5 cups each weetbix and allbran but that all depends on how much i crush it.
Does around 900g each of weetbix and allbran sound about right for 50L or am I crushing it to fine.
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby BigRig » Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:35 am

I think you are over crushing it. For a 55L wash i was using 4 rows of a 1.12kg pack of coles brand weetbix on its own (no all bran). I didnt bother crushing them, when i added the hot water to dissolve sugar they disintegrated.

https://shop.coles.com.au/a/national/pr ... at-biscuit
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby gad » Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:51 am

Hi NFI
I do a 48L batch of this (45L goes into the boiler after fermentation).
I follow the WBAB recipe & use 18 Weet Bix, 4 cups of All Bran (whatever Aldi's brand name is?), 2 tsp Citric Acid, 2.5 tsp Epsom salts & 60g of Lowan's yeast.
Probably don't need the CA or ES's, up to you. Have used 22 Weet Bix when out of AB without any noticeable difference.
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Re: Easy Weetbix / All Bran Wash Recipe Discussion

Postby NFI » Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:32 am

Thanks guys.
I am shocking, I use weights for everything even liquids - easier to replicate.
I've still got half a box of weetbix left so I'll do the math, all of the bran is flour now so I'll just wing it on that, it was a 350g box.
I have been doing a bit of reading up on all grain mash and got carried away. :doh:
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