by stillts » Mon Mar 21, 2022 3:37 pm
Hi all,
Just wanted to check something here:
From original recipe:
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Run it hard and fast through the pot, and collect 7 or 8 litres of low wines down to 20%. Put the low wines aside for later.
After the run, collect 7-8L of backset. I tip it into my mixing pot straight after the run, while it's still hot.
For generation #2, #3, and on and on, you'll need:
• 1L of Corn Flakes
• 7 or 8L of backset
• 7kg of sugar
• Water to top up to 40-45L
• Crush the Corn Flakes and add them to the pot of hot backset. Sit on the stove/burner.
• Cook for 5 minutes (or until you've got cornflake porridge) and add it to the fermenter
• Throw the hot water with the crushed Corn Flakes into your fermenter;
• Bring another 10L of water to the boil, and dissolve 7kg of sugar in it. Tip it into the fermenter, and you should be somewhere near your 40-45L... If not, top up with water.
• Check the temp: it should be somewhere between 25 and 30 degrees. Give it a good stir.
All things going well, your yeast bed should still be alive from generation 1... Leave it for a few hours and you should start to see some action in the airlock. If you don't see anything happening after 12 hours (it has happened to me, I threw hot backset straight onto the grains and cooked my little yeasties :sad:)
• Add another good sprinkle of yeast, give it another stir and pop your airlock back on. It should start bubbling away in an hour or so.
Once you strip 4 or 5 generations through the pot, you should have enough low wines collected to water down to 40% and do a nice slow spirit run...
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I wanted to make sure I am not missing something obvious here.
Questions:
1) the "collect 7-8L of backset" is from the still boiler after a stripping run and getting down to 20%?
2) the 7-8L of backset is added back to the fermenter (minus the 1L of grain), add new ingredients and run as a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th etc batch?
3) and the end of all this all of the low wines collected from all batches are watered down to 40% and run through as a slow spirit run? You would need a pretty big boiler right?
I only have a 30L boiler so this might be a problem.
4) I am guessing that you discard the first 150ml X (no. of batches) to get rid of acetone etc
Thanks everyone. This recipe looks very promising!
Regards,
Stillts