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Turbo Yeast - pH in wash |
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Many winemakers are used to regulating pH by adding citric acid or acidity regulators. The simple bottom line for Turbo Yeast: DON'T! A Turbo Yeast is optimised for fermenting a sugar+water solution, it includes it's own regulators. If you introduce other substances you will always decrease performance! What many home distillers do not realise is that modern distillation is often done from a slightly acidic wash. With a very good still, this is optimum - it will produce more alcohol. The only reason one could be tempted to adjust (neutralise) the pH would be if you use a pot still which is not as efficient as a reflux - but we still don't recommend it because most pot stills are made (at least parts) of copper and you risk getting your moonshine alcohol slightly blue or green from the copper if you neutralise using traditional methods. Use a good Pot Still Turbo instead - Alcotec is about to launch one soon [Updated Jan 2004, launch sometime during first half of 2004]. |
Hambleton Bard UK Ltd - with our Alcotec brand we are now the world's largest turbo yeast manufacturer. We have supplied Scandinavia (Sweden mainly), our main market, through our Swedish subsidiary since the early 1990's. The Turbo Yeast boom of the world started here in the early 1990's - we were first out - and this is also today the main market for these products in the world. We manufacture more than 15 different brands of superyeast- most of them for Sweden and Norway. Our international brand - the Alcotec - sold throughout the world today is de facto the industry standard turboyeast. We cover all varieties - high alcohol, fast, superfast (the most extreme of them all being our Alcotec 24 - from 0 - 14% in 24 hours!). We are always working on new products, you can safely expect to see other home distillation alcohol news from Hambleton Bard. Check our news page - this is where we present things first.
Our solid understanding of fermentation technology in general has resulted in many revolutionary products like the 9-day wine making kit, the 7-day, the 5-day and ultimately the 1-day wine kit. We also produce high alcohol kits, both for homemade liqueur and for home made wines. In short - we are home wine, beer and spirit making specialists. Although there are many other good homebrew suppliers in the world, in Canada, England and Scandinavia mainly - we believe that our wide range of products and knowledge into all the fields of homebrew is unique.
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