Stillworkin wrote:Wellsy wrote:Your spirits should always come out clear mate, wash colour should not have an effect on this.
Cheers Wellsy, all my previous (not FFV) washes have been pretty clear so I wasn't sure.
Is it normal for the FFV wash to be milky?
I have run this recipe at least a hundred times now, and, at the end of fermentation, it has always been cloudy for me. My theory is, and it is just a theory, that the yeast love the environment so much that they propagate like crazy (there always seems to be much more yeast in the wash at the end of fermentation than I put in) and will remain in suspension for a long time.
Despite what Teddy Sad and others say, I have always found that, left to itself, at room temperature, that the wash remains cloudy for days and days, I can't say how long, because I don't have the patience for that LOL, so in the fridge it goes, and it clarifies significantly in 24 hours.
I always judge the degree of clarification by the amount of sludge in the boiler after the run - because even when there is no sludge at all the wash is not perfectly clear.
I have never noticed any difference in the quality of the final product, sludge or no sludge, I just don't like cleaning that sludge out LOL.