Pumpkinman
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I had to try it out, every time
I read a post telling us how good it is, my mouth watered!
I am following DangerDave's recipe, but I have a few questions:
The Recipe is as follows:
Step 1: To a cleaned and sanitized seven gallon primary, add---in this order:
2 bottles (48 oz each) 100% Lemon Juice (ReaLemon in the green bottle): if you want to recude the acid level use one bottle.
Water to about five gallons
20 cups of white granulated sugar (looking for a SG btw 1.085-1.09 after filling to 6 gallons*): use less sugar for lower final ABV. Stir sugar until completely desolved.
1 tsp. tannin (stir)
4 tsp. yeast nutrient (stir)
2 tsp. yeast energizer (stir)
3 tsp. pectic enzyme (stir)
Top water to six (6) gallons* (looking for a SG btw 1.085-1.09) and stir well
That Nylon bag was hard to pull closed before I squeezed it a few times.
The bottom pic shows how I bring thing up to temp fairly quick and maintain 75° - 80°, I use a Seedling Heat Mat these are obviously used in the gardening industry to germinate seeds, but they work real well for fermenting buckets and carboys. The main difference between these and the belts is the size, these heat the entire bucket or carboy. I used a network patch cable to keep it tight against the bucket, that's just what I had laying around, you can use anything, when it gets up to temp, I'll take the cable off so it just maintains the temp that I want.
I read a post telling us how good it is, my mouth watered!
I am following DangerDave's recipe, but I have a few questions:
The Recipe is as follows:
Step 1: To a cleaned and sanitized seven gallon primary, add---in this order:
2 bottles (48 oz each) 100% Lemon Juice (ReaLemon in the green bottle): if you want to recude the acid level use one bottle.
Water to about five gallons
20 cups of white granulated sugar (looking for a SG btw 1.085-1.09 after filling to 6 gallons*): use less sugar for lower final ABV. Stir sugar until completely desolved.
1 tsp. tannin (stir)
4 tsp. yeast nutrient (stir)
2 tsp. yeast energizer (stir)
3 tsp. pectic enzyme (stir)
Top water to six (6) gallons* (looking for a SG btw 1.085-1.09) and stir well
- For Yeast Nutrient - is GoFerm acceptable?
- For Yeast Energizer - will Fermaid K work?
- Also, just to be clear, add both of them before the yeast?
- The Recipe states to let sit undisturbed for 12-24 hrs, is this to let it come up to temp before pitching the yeast, or is there another reason?
(I'm not questioning the recipe at all, just curious if I could pitch the yeast when temps reached 75°-80°, this heat mat will have it up to temp within 2-3 hrs.
That Nylon bag was hard to pull closed before I squeezed it a few times.
The bottom pic shows how I bring thing up to temp fairly quick and maintain 75° - 80°, I use a Seedling Heat Mat these are obviously used in the gardening industry to germinate seeds, but they work real well for fermenting buckets and carboys. The main difference between these and the belts is the size, these heat the entire bucket or carboy. I used a network patch cable to keep it tight against the bucket, that's just what I had laying around, you can use anything, when it gets up to temp, I'll take the cable off so it just maintains the temp that I want.