HessenHelles
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Has anyone tried Brown sugar?
48 hours later.....No action.
I popped the top on the bucket, and I looked like the yeast was floating on top. So, I gave it a good stir and put the top back on.
Any idea's?
Did you make a starter. I pitched a pack of EC1118 and nothing. Made a quick starter with same yeast and some sugar and apple juice. She took off in 2 hours.
HessenHelles said:Help!!!
I'm ready to pitch my 1L starter after 24 hours.
But, I'm not sure if I should scoop out the dead yeasties floating in the primary first. Looks discusting.
Any thoughts?
~~Ingredients~~
10# Regular Cane Sugar
7 Containers off brand lemonade concentrate
3 Containers limeade OR pink lemonade concentrate
1pkt Redstar Montrachet Yeast (have used yeast cake left from the cherry pie wine as well)
1 tbls Energizer
1 tbls Nutrient
Water to 5-6 Gallons
~~Prep~~
1) Dissolved sugar in 3-4 Gallons of H2O.
2) Placed concentrate in primary while sugar dissolves over med-low heat.
3) Added sugar water to primary
4) Started yeast in mason jar of combined solution at ~85F.
5) Pitched yeast into brewbucket and added water to bring to 6 gal
~~Primary~~
Sat in an Ale Pail on my kitchen counter for two weeks. Regular room temp 70F-75F
~Secondary~~
Used blue plastic 5gal water jug (the type found at lowes etc).
Continued fermenting at 70F-75F until bubbling has almost completely ceased
~~Bottling~~
Bottled into 12oz beer bottles with crown caps
~~Notes & Comments~~
- Limeade version tastes so much like mikes hard lemonade it's crazy
- Pink lemonade version is still bubbling... I'll report back later
~~Moral of the story~~
Cheap. Yummy. Enjoyed by all.
As I only have the 6 gallon bucket and 5 gallon carboy.. what kind of blow off did you get? I noticed Primary water to 6 gallons then secondary in 5 gallon jug.. did you get a gallon of blow off? where did the extra go?
I want to try this so it is a real question, As SWMBO would be very upset with a gallon of sticky stuff in the cupboard where I ferment.
Cheersipe:
Mine sounded like pop in a glass. And take a SG reading. It goes slow and doesn't show much action.
It ferments very slow and calm. No blowoff.
Hey braze, what was your fg on this stuff. Mines around 1.05 but she's still pretty syrupy.
Yea 1.050 is really syrupy. Did the starter take off?
On a different note, when I was buying my lemon/lime juice I though, oh what the hell, ill get some of these fruit punch's as well.
I poured 3 cans of the HyVee fruit punch concentrate into my 3 gallon car boy. I dissolved 5 pounds of sugar into some water and poured it in as well. Than after adding 1 tsp of energizer and 1 tsp of nutrient I topped off to the top. Pitched one pack of champange yeast and let er go. I tasted it today and HOLY CRAP this stuff is GOOOOOOOOOOOD! Try it out!
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