How Do You Know When Your Moonshine Mash Is Ready to Be Cooked

Hi all. And then I made up a 12 gallon sugariness feed mash eight days ago. I'm fermenting in a 20 gallon food grade garbage tin can. Been 60degrees in the garage pretty steady. When I pull the lid off and wait at it, I tin can see it bubble every now and so, and there is a head of grain on tiptop. What's the best manner to tell if it's ready to distill? Never ran a feed mash before, simply fruit washes.

Post by **Soft batch** » Sat January 13, 2018 12:26 pm

Hydrometer, a inexpensive necessary investment! Brusque of that, if it'south bubbling the yeast is withal working - await until it stops bubbling and the launder clears - the cap will sink.
60 degrees is likewise cool for most yeast - if you have a yeast that works at that temp, information technology will exist slow.

Mail past **acfixer69** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:44 pm

Taste information technology if information technology's sour/dry it'due south done if it's sweet information technology's not. Fermenting at sixty F is sloooow even with ale yeast.

Ac

Post past **jon1163** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:47 pm

+1 on watching for the grain cap to sink and for sure get a hydrometer. This might sound kind of airheaded but I would get a cheap stethoscope and only listen to the side of the fermenter. You'll hear it bubbling away and you'll notice and marked difference when information technology stops. If you're not deaf yous can put your ear to it likewise. Information technology's fun to listen to but maybe I'm just hands entertained.

Post by **Whitecap72** » Sat January 13, 2018 2:25 pm

I have a spirits hydrometer, and use it for proofing. What am i looking for to see if its done. I used bread yeast.

Post past **Whitecap72** » Saturday Jan 13, 2018 2:40 pm

Ok, i have 1 of those as well. I just took a reading with the spirits hydrometer and it was below the aught mark on the tralle lines. I tasted the brew too, and its not at all sweet..

Mail by **Soft batch** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 2:47 pm

Bread yeast at 60 will take a couple months to ferment, if at all. It's optimum temp is low to mid 80's. Yous'll need to warm it up - aquarium heater, brew belt, heat lamp.

Post by **Soft batch** » Saturday Jan 13, 2018 2:49 pm

If it'due south beneath zero, information technology is gear up to go!

Mail by **Whitecap72** » Sabbatum Jan 13, 2018 3:24 pm

It was below cipher on the spirits hydrometer. You thinks it's ready? Information technology didn't gustation sweetness, and smells like beer wart.

Mail service by **acfixer69** » Sat January 13, 2018 3:35 pm

Whitecap72 wrote:Ok, i take one of those likewise. I simply took a reading with the spirits hydrometer and it was beneath the zero mark on the tralle lines. I tasted the mash too, and its not at all sweetness..

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I'd run it now.

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Postal service by **still_stirrin** » Sat January 13, 2018 3:57 pm

I call up information technology wise to find your brewer's hydrometer and check the gravity for real.

I think you're not done really, peculiarly if information technology smells like a beer wort. If it was close to finished it would smell sour, like lemonade. So cheque it earlier racking to the boiler. And warming information technology up will give the brewers yeast a "kicking in the seat of the pants".

Exercise it correct...you'll be rewarded in the finish.
ss

Post past **Soft batch** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:00 pm

A spirit hydrometer is worthless in a launder, in an undistilled wash volition ever be beneath naught as it contains more than but alcohol and water.

Both hydrometers expect like but are completely different instruments. A spirit hydrometer is calibrated to measure the booze to h2o ratio in a solution with the supposition that the solution only contains h2o and alcohol (no sugars, starches, yeast, etc). A spirit hydrometer show a scale 0-100. Zero on a spirit hydrometer ways it has no alcohol content.

A brewing hydrometer measures specific gravity (impurities) in relation to pure water - in our globe, nosotros are measuring sugar content. The scale on a brewing hydrometer is typically .990 to 1.200. 1.00 on brewing hydrometer means it is equal in density to pure h2o. A typical launder will actually go beneath nothing when it'due south done fermenting due the solution containing h2o + alcohol(lighter than water) instead of water + sugars (heavier than h2o).

Technically the baseline 1.000 on the brewers and 0 on the spirit hydrometer are the same (pure H2O) - just are scaled in different directions.

Edited to right baseline

Postal service by **still_stirrin** » Sabbatum Jan xiii, 2018 4:14 pm

Soft batch wrote:...Technically zero on both hydrometers are the same (pure H2O) - only are scaled in dissimilar directions.

Almost....h2o with a brewer'south hydrometer is 1.000 (or zero alcohol "potential", I estimate). But the point you've made is 100% correct. For the OP, a spirit hydrometer is the incorrect tool to measure out a ferment'southward progress. A brewer's hydrometer is the right tool.

But to the OP, I actually suspect you're not done all the same, so brand certain you check the gravity with the correct tool. You really tin't judge progress by the bubble activity, especially if you're looking at the bubbles forming in the fermenter. If the launder is too absurd to ferment, activity may slow down to a clamber. But you may still have more fermentable textile in your wash and y'all don't desire to dump that down the drain considering of a lack of patience.
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Post by **Whitecap72** » Sat January 13, 2018 5:18 pm

Ok, then I found my brewers hydrometer. It came out at 1.021 is information technology ready to distill?

Post by **Soft batch** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 v:37 pm

NO - should exist ane.000 or beneath. You still take a skillful amount of sugars to ferment.

Post by **Whitecap72** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:56 pm

Ok, thank yous. I'll wait it out. Fourth dimension for a heater, or move my fermenter into the kitchen.

Mail past **still_stirrin** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 half dozen:04 pm

Whitecap72 wrote:Ok, give thanks you. I'll wait it out. Time for a heater, or motility my fermenter into the kitchen.

Post by **Whitecap72** » Saturday Jan 13, 2018 half dozen:42 pm

Moved my fermenter into the corner of the kitchen, yeast should be happy again.

Post by **Honest_Liberty** » Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:47 am

having trouble finding the right mode to search for this answer:

my Booner's casual is reading 0.000 only I'm withal seeing bubbling activity. the cap fell and it appears to be cleaning (definitively separated already) but if it could go to .996 or .994 I'd feel much better every bit my SG was just 1.040 at 1.four #/gallon.

Thoughts? I may also have still fatigue. I've run almost a dozen strips and a few spirit runs since Nov. Today is the all-time solar day I take to run it considering time constraints, only the way the superlative was bubbles, I don't desire to exit whatsoever alcohol backside.

Postal service by **Deplorable** » Thu Mar 04, 2021 i:33 pm

Honest_Liberty wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:47 am
having trouble finding the right way to search for this answer:

my Booner'south casual is reading 0.000 just I'm yet seeing bubbling activity. the cap fell and information technology appears to be cleaning (definitively separated already) just if information technology could become to .996 or .994 I'd feel much meliorate every bit my SG was only i.040 at 1.4 #/gallon.

Thoughts? I may as well have still fatigue. I've run almost a dozen strips and a few spirit runs since November. Today is the all-time day I have to run it considering fourth dimension constraints, only the way the top was bubbling, I don't desire to get out whatsoever alcohol behind.

I left my bourbon on the grain for a calendar week afterward information technology looked washed on the hydrometer. Then racked and squeezed, and left it for another 2 to 3 weeks before I stripped it, and another iii weeks before I ran the spirit run. Have a break. Information technology will exist at that place when you get dorsum.

Post by **River Rat** » Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:33 pm

Whitecap72 wrote: ↑
Sabbatum January 13, 2018 12:08 pm
Been 60degrees in the garage pretty steady.

If you brand a little tent around your fermenter (I utilize reflective insulation) a light seedling should go it enough warm enough. My building is steady at about 45*F right now and i 100W bulb on a drop cord is keeping a xx gallon ferment at 78*.

Mail by **Honest_Liberty** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:42 am

Distressing wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 04, 2021 1:33 pm
I left my bourbon on the grain for a calendar week after it looked done on the hydrometer. Then racked and squeezed, and left it for some other 2 to 3 weeks before I stripped it, and another three weeks earlier I ran the spirit run. Take a break. Information technology volition be there when y'all get back.

You sanitized before y'all strained?
I'd be concerned with sanitation on the stuff I won't through the mop wringer, even though I greatly sanitize.

Post by **Deplorable** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 vii:59 am

When I clasp, I spray down the mop wringer with star-san solution and go out it sit down while I rack of the cleared wash into clean buckets likewise sprayed down with star-san.

Aside from a hot soapy h2o wash to remove any solids, that's all I do in the way of sanitization.
I make up a bucket total of solution to soak siphon hoses and racking pump.

Post past **ShineonCrazyDiamond** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 one:35 pm

You may get a lacto. But remember the brewer'south motto. Nothing that tin impairment y'all volition abound in fermented beer

Mail service by **Limp** » Mon December 13, 2021 10:x am

I'grand in the same state of affairs. My mash has been fermenting for about half-dozen days now. My hydrometer reading was 0, but my mash is however
Bubbling. I used bread yeast. My brew is in my kitchen. My house stays at 74 degrees. After reading some of these reply'due south, I wonder if I demand to put a blanket around my fermenter and increase the temperature.

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