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{birdwatchers}My recipe for an 80 liter wash. Ingredients as follows:
3 cups tomato paste
Juice 3 lemons
Approx. 18 kg sugar
225 grams fresh regular bakers yeast. Buy in bulk at any good health food store.
water(I use spring well water)
Procedure:
Keep careful notes from start to finish for future reference.
Carefully mix paste, juice, say 14 kg sugar with 60 liters water at 30C. Measure SG.
(you are aiming for 1.09)
Carefully add water and sugar to bring mixture to 80 liter, WITH A SG 1.09.
Temperature of finished mixture should be 30C-35C to start.
You should now have 80 liters of mixed ingredients.
Carefully sprinkle 225 grams of yeast over surface, stirring in.
Place cover loosely, to let CO2 escape, keeping flying nasties out.
There is so much CO2 coming off; there is no need to worry about oxygen coming in contact.
Place bottomless styrofoam box over fermenter. Dangle lit lightbulb through small
hole in lid. Bulb must be strong enough to keep the mixture at a steady range of
30C-35C for entire fermentation. Size of bulb depends on room temperature. Stick
your digital thermometer through side of box to track inside temperature.
{A good idea would be to set up with water a day before you begin wash to determine
the size of light bulb to maintain water/wash in the 30-35C range.}
Check SG and temperature daily
Stir daily
On day three, syphon contents evenly into four 23 liter airlocked carboys.
(This step may not be nessesary and I may at some future date simply take the wash from start
to finish in the unairlocked storage container)
Check SG and temperature daily
Shake carboys gently daily.
After a total of 7-8 days SG should be .995. If not, wait until completion.
TOMATO PASTE WASH
7/28/2017
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Tomato Paste Wash (or TPW) is a different sort of wash that is much cleaner than a turbo
wash. Tomato paste wash has the downside of yielding less than a turbo wash but at the same time
is much cheaper.
6kg sugar or 7kg dextrose
250g tomato paste
70g bakers yeast (or 15g EC-1118 yeast)
Add sugar or dextrose and tomato paste to the fermenter. Half fill the fermenter with water. Stir until
the sugars have dissolved. Top up fermenter to 27L.
Sprinkle yeast on top and ferment at 25-35C
When gravity reaches .990 on your hydrometer transfer to the still and run. I make a 27L wash to
ensure I definitely get 25L into the boiler.