StillSmart

Many, many, very many many.

Robert.

A little experiment for those that like this recipe.
First tube 1kg Cornflakes hand crushed into fermenter
5kg sugar etc..
Second tube 500g cornflakes blitzed in a food thingy.
Powder than poured into fermenter hot water as above.
Both done in 10 days and I think 2nd one has a better
flavour.
Is this because the flavour is absorbed into the liquid
easier and better??
One thing less mess to clear up after and best of all
less cost.

I am with you - 'tube' had me there for a second.

Yeah. You might want to try the same experiment, adding the 500g blitz midway (end ish) thru the ferment. This will hold even more flavour.

Sometimes referred to as 'late fruiting" by wine makers and saves the flavours being blown off by the hotter faster early stage of the ferment.

Typo alert Mash sorry read TUB. I might give that a go
next time. This recipe is mega with a bit of neuking
and JD chips. The Whiskey loving father-in-law is
slurping as fast as I make.

What you said about late fruiting would mean just sugar
water and yeast to begin and thats not good. So maybe
half CF to begin other half day 5?

The reason I thought of this blitzing.....
Picture the scene one Saturday morn, dressed in
Dressing gown and slippers brandishing a rolling pin.
A scene recreated from a Saturday night late.
I appear having had many beers with the boys.
There she is, slippers dressing gown and rolling pin.
My god I am turning into a female dragon.

Sounds like you are not feeling the love dude.
Any little Gazza's out there to reciprocate on the morrow?

Robert.

gaza the instructor wrote:

The reason I thought of this blitzing.....
Picture the scene one Saturday morn, dressed in
Dressing gown and slippers brandishing a rolling pin.
A scene recreated from a Saturday night late.
I appear having had many beers with the boys.
There she is, slippers dressing gown and rolling pin.
My god I am turning into a female dragon.

LMAO. I thought it was only me getting 'domestic' in dressing gown, when I mix my bread dough.

gaza the instructor wrote:

Typo alert Mash sorry read TUB. I might give that a go
next time. This recipe is mega with a bit of neuking
and JD chips. The Whiskey loving father-in-law is
slurping as fast as I make.

What you said about late fruiting would mean just sugar
water and yeast to begin and thats not good. So maybe
half CF to begin other half day 5?

Yeah I see your point 50/50 then.

PS Really - Don't apologize to me for a typo

Ok so this post has got my interest up. Finished stripping my kale this morning so thought I’d give it a go. I how have just pitched my first cornflake wash so will see what happens. Every thing went off as planned except for the little incident when the wife walked in to the room finding me crushing the hell out of a big box of cornflakes at least she just shook her head and walked out muttering something about I don’t want to know.

Must be a woman thing... Mine does that a lot

My ferment seems to be taking a while, it's been on the go for 11 days now and still at 1.030 and it's not bubbling much either, does that still sound ok or should I give it a little bicarb and a good thrashing?

It's thrashed and dosed, bubbling away again.
Found a digital PH meter in a box of junk I was given a while ago, it has a reading of 5.8 is that in the right ball park?

My tap water reads 8.5 is that good or bad?

I think thats quite high mate mine is normally 7.2.
Its the CF abuse, women just dont understand cavemans
bid to produce alcohol from anything. Jesus started it
its all his fault.

Right back to it.Stripped and spirit ran 3x25ltrs
On the spirit run I shut of at 94c smelling tails
gettin late etc... Collected in 400ml pots.
pot 1 fores
pots 2-7 heads
Pot 8?? not sure still.
Pots 9-19 hearts
the rest(4) tales.
So have just short of 4.5ltrs of hearts.
Its so hot in here I left without testing the %
just tipped into a DJ and corked.
Someone tripped the lecky and my AC did not go on.
Suspect % to be about 70 it normally is on the Alembic
setup.That will give me about 7.5ltrs at drinkable %.
Will neuk age with JD chips Yummmmie.
So thats we under £2 per litre cheeerrrrssss
Next mission is Odins Rye bread whiskey.

Checked my SG again tonight and it's still not finished 1.010, thats now 20 days, I wonder if there is a preservitive in Aldi cornflakes that is causing such a slow ferment, I'll try Kelloggs next.

It could also be the heat in the day and cold at night, yeasties dont know whats going on so underperforming?

Can I still this at 1.010 or do I have to wait, I realise it will produce less volume, will the sweetness carry over?