Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:53 am

Professor Green wrote:Welcome to AD TheBastardGrant.

I would have expected with the amount of sugar and water you used that it would be somewhere around the 1.07 mark. Are you sure your hydrometer isn't broken or maybe you are misreading it? Not having a go at you; the way these things are marked, they can be a bit confusing to read at first. To with an SG of 1.6 would require 40kg of sugar in 25 litres of water!

Mixing the yeast in won't hurt it, some people sprinkle it on top, others chuck it in and give it good stir. I've done both, never had a problem.

You probably could have gotten away withe 50g of yeast - one of the great things about yeast is that it multiplies so it would have still fermented out. Might have taken a little longer but it would still have done the job.

Good luck with your first run, let us know how it goes.

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Will do! As I'm not sure wtf I'm doing, I'll take any advice given.
Maybe I read it wrong, but I read it wrong consistently - lol!
I did turn the sugars into inverted before mixing the tomato paste into the brew.

I thought as much regarding the yeast, but adding the extra thirty made it kick off nicely.

I've no idea if this is going to work - but it's my first learning experience either way!!!
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:10 pm

I think I meant 1.060 instead of 1.600, and that should all make sense now ;)
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:14 pm

howard wrote:no need to distill, it's already 80% abv. :?
please send me some of that tasmanian spring water :))


LOL. It took me a while to work out the joke here.
I meant 1.060, 1.030, 1.010, 0.990 for the readings...
Beginners mistake.
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby Wellsy » Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:15 pm

we all make them and we all learn from them. 8-}
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby Professor Green » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:36 pm

Now that sounds much more like it! Hydrometers can definitely be confusing at first.

I reckon it'll work just fine, TPW is one of the most forgiving recipes. I've even made it with tomato puree when I discovered I didn't have the tomato pate I thought I had and it turned out fine. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:28 am

It's HAPPENING!
Everything is going well, I'm two hours in and the clearest alcohol is flowing :)
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:35 am

I'm making 200ml cuts - assuming that the t500 instructions go out the window when you don't use turbo and all the associated crap that makes everything taste like chemicals...

Am I overkilling it by doing so many cuts?
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby Sam. » Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:48 am

More cuts the better mate, that way you can go back after they have aired and see for yourself the difference between the jars :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:56 am

Sam. wrote:More cuts the better mate, that way you can go back after they have aired and see for yourself the difference between the jars :handgestures-thumbupleft:


Many thanks. Makes sense :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby Wellsy » Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:03 am

you can never make too many cuts mate,

you will also be amazed at the difference in taste from 1 jar to the next when you get to the change over points, eg hearts to tails

Congrats and in the immortal works of john paul young "just keep on smiling"
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:40 pm

Just finished the run! it's certainly faster at 240v than using USA's power supply...
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:56 pm

I've successfully made 2lt @ 90% after mixing my cuts.
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby Wellsy » Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:51 am

Now you know how to do that time to get your next wash going, oh and another as well
Oh what to make next lol.
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:30 am

Hmmm what to make next... Well I do have a baby at home, so there's lots of cereals :)
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby Boomgate » Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:31 am

I generally run this but double the amount (50L), Is it just me or does it take a lot longer to self clear?
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:34 am

It didn't really clear - I left it to settle for a week

But the alcohol sure was... Isn't now though _the two different oak experiments are going well. I've added Jack Daniels American oak cask chips to the left 2lt and whisky finishing wine cask oak to the right. That's 24hr...
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby Wellsy » Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:59 pm

Take care with the chips mate, I have found they can over do it things very quickly.
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby TheBastardGrant » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:00 pm

Wellsy wrote:Take care with the chips mate, I have found they can over do it things very quickly.


Thanks - I'm taking them out tonight.
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby The Stig » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:48 pm

I don’t understand people oaking neutral .
Why ???
Make a flavored wash to oak
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Re: Tomato Paste Wash (TPW) Recipe Discussion

Postby RuddyCrazy » Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:02 pm

Well as I use TPW for my neutral time for me to chime in :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I do 60 litre ferments and strip the wash in in my 4" pot still, it took 2 ferments to get enough low wines to do do a spirit run. I did add all my old CFW to the boiler as I have gone AG this stuff was destined as I learned.

With my latest run I setup my still which was 2.5 metres high, 4 plates and a 500mm packed section and off I went on a spirit run. Used about 10 psi for the heatup and dropped it to 5 psi for the run, had all 4 plates running and just let it go until all 4 plates were full then with a small opening on the RC bled the foresand heads off/ Then back into reflux for another 1/2 an hour to fully load the plates then for 3 hours took 13 litres of 94% didn't bother with a temp correction as I was happy with what I got.

Well leaving it for a month and decanting a bottle to 39% and putting it in the freezer man it is a nice cool drop of nothing :laughing-rolling:
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