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"6 gallon wash consisting of..
4 lbs cracked corn
5 lbs sugar
1 tsp spsom salt
1 tlbs lemon juice
1/4 cup malted barley
1 pack of prestiege whiskey yeast with AG
I have a sg of 1.000
Is it ready to cook? Or is it a bust?"
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fg of 1.0 or under sounds good to me
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Heya Dona Not enough detail to make an informed answer, I am afraid... First of all, it doesn't look like there was enough sugar by several pounds.. But, other questions prevail - I'll presume every thing used (containerwise) was sanitized/sterile to begin with. [LIST=1] Was the cracked corn/barley pre-processed in any way?
- corn cooked at the correct temprature for at least an hour
- barley cooked w/the corn for 30-60m at 148f?
At what temp did you pitch yer yeast?
Did your fermenter have an airlock or open?
What was the SG at the beginning of the ferment?
- If it was 1.000 - that was a sign to add more sugar.
How long did this ferment?
Temp of the area it fermented in?
Is 1.000 your final gravity?
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I don't know if you followed a tried-n-true recipe - I have done a corn/barley Sweet Feed one which is really close to the ingredients you listed with the exception of mollasses, but I used 7lbs of sugar for a 5 gallon wash. Every wash is different thou, and if the SG is low one generally adds more sugar.
Cheers
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Originally Posted by: dieselduo  fg of 1.0 or under sounds good to me Heya DieselD..I thought FG as well at first then I saw Dona posted "SG"... that's what got me thinking the front side not the back  |
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Hi Dona. You didn't say what your original specific gravity was but if your specific gravity stays 1.000 for a couple days. Run It. With your listed ingredients it may have been a little low to start but it is what it is.
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