I am looking for a recipe that uses sugar. I saw this one ,in a 5 gal bucket, 10 lbs sugar, Hot water to fill, and some yeast. Let ferment for 2 weeks covered up. Then cook in still., and was wondering if it would work and if so can someone go into detail about it.

I have always used, and had good luck with turbo yeasts. I use the alcotec 48. The good thing with this is the simplicity. It already contains all the nutrients, buffers and other things needed, that I know little about. 1 package is added to 21 litres of water. First. fill a bucket with the 21 litres of water at a bit above 104 degrees F. Then mix in 6 kg of sugar. This amount will yeild about 14% raw alcohol in 2 days. If you have more time ,and sugar, then add 8 kg of sugar. Stir to mix and dissolve all the sugar. Then, when the temp is roughly 104 degrees F, add the package of turbo yeast. Stir that for 1 min. Leave to ferment in about 68-90 degrees F., until the fermentation stops. The more sugar, the longer the fermentation time. I use a large plastic fermentation vessel with a standard air lock. The mix is done working, when the airlock stops perking and there is no bubbling in the bucket. I just put my ear to the thing and listen. If it sounds like a glass of soda pop, then let it go a while longer. The only drawback to this is it makes alot of wash. Too much for me. My still only takes about 1/2 of it at a time and i have to run twice. That takes all day and the fun usually wears off after about 6-7 hours. Real simple though, and not nearly as much wait time as 2 weeks. I geuss I could just half the package, but I dont know how well the yeast and nutrients would be mixed and how well the unused portion would keep until I got around to using it. Basically though, the turbo and sugar was the simplest and cheapest for me.
Hope this helps. Good luck.

Thanks. I will try the ratio when I find some time........ Hopefully soon.

"Anon,
If you want a good sugar wash look at wineo's recipe. It's fool proof and good.

blanik"