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Turbo Yeast - Sugar in wash |
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You can safely use normal white sugar for making moonshine alcohol, all turbo's will normally refer to that in their instructions. When adding sugar: Add sugar to liquid, not the other way around. This way it will dissolve better which is critical to performance. Do NOT add the yeast before the sugar, add the yeast once the sugar is properly dissolved. The reason you need to be careful when dissolving sugar is that if there are lumps left, the osmotic pressure around them may kill yeast cells. This will also happen if you add the sugar into water + turbo. Turbo yeast start - best procedureAdd 5-8 litres of hot water (not boiling, somewhere around 60-80 C / 140-176 F is fine) to fermenter (if you use a glass demijohn or similar you must avoid quick temperature changes which may crack the glass - use more water and stay at 30-50 C / 86-122 F). Then add your 6-8 kgs of sugar and stir/shake thoroughly. Finally, top up with cold water to final volume (normally 25 litres) and mix well. This will give you a good solution at the right start temperature. The start temperature should preferably be above 25 C (77 F), ideally 30 C (86 F) and always stay well below 35 C (95 F). These are general guidelines but they will work fine with most turbo's (how do we know that - well we manufacture most of them in the world and the rest are copies). Turbo yeast - Dextrose or Sucrose?You can also use Dextrose Monohydrate which is sugar with one molecule of water attached. This is sometimes called "Brewing Sugar" or similar. The advantage is that it dissolves much easier. The disadvantage is that you need to use some 10% extra to compensate for the fact that some of it is actually water. The Dextrose is a less complex sugar molecule than the sucrose (normal sugar). Actually, when fermenting, your yeast will break down sucrose to dextrose first and then continue with the process. So in theory, dextrose should be better for the purpose (less work for the yeast) but in practice we have not seen any noticeable difference. |
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