So I don't understand this and have never used these products .... teach me.
I like Scotch & dry ginger as a long drink. Let's say I dilute it 1:4 with my mixer, so that's reducing it to only 8% abv in my glass.
According to their website, 8kg of sugar in water to 25 litres with Alcotec 48 yeast will produce 25 litres @ 20% abv in 5 days. Now that's 320g sugar in the litre which will give OG 1.115 so I fail to see how 20% is achievable unless it ferments down to 0.968 - is that possible? I've never had a dry wine ferment below 0.988 - what's the theoretical gravity of 20% alcohol in water? Am I missing something glaringly obvious here, do I somehow lose 4 litres over the process?
This product then needs charcoal treatment. Thinking aloud, could you run it through a Brita filter?
Supposing I end up (after clearing and racking) with 22 litres at 20%. 8kg of sugar will cost me £6.40, the yeast's around £3, say a quid for finings and £2.50 for a filter cartridge, that works out at 60p a litre.
Balliihoo's flavouring essences are for 75cl of 40% spirit but I will only be diluting my âwhiskyâ flavoured drink 1:2 to get the same 8% abv in the glass so I assume I use one bottle of essence to flavour 1.5 litres of drink?
Bottom line: It's going to cost me around £2.80 for 1.5 litres of 20% âwhiskyâ flavoured drink when the cheapest supermarket own brand blended Scotch now seems to be around £11, so that might be worth a try, but would this actually taste anything like a cheap blended Scotch even when drowned with dry ginger? Who has made these brews? Has anyone made them more than once?
I like Scotch & dry ginger as a long drink. Let's say I dilute it 1:4 with my mixer, so that's reducing it to only 8% abv in my glass.
According to their website, 8kg of sugar in water to 25 litres with Alcotec 48 yeast will produce 25 litres @ 20% abv in 5 days. Now that's 320g sugar in the litre which will give OG 1.115 so I fail to see how 20% is achievable unless it ferments down to 0.968 - is that possible? I've never had a dry wine ferment below 0.988 - what's the theoretical gravity of 20% alcohol in water? Am I missing something glaringly obvious here, do I somehow lose 4 litres over the process?
This product then needs charcoal treatment. Thinking aloud, could you run it through a Brita filter?
Supposing I end up (after clearing and racking) with 22 litres at 20%. 8kg of sugar will cost me £6.40, the yeast's around £3, say a quid for finings and £2.50 for a filter cartridge, that works out at 60p a litre.
Balliihoo's flavouring essences are for 75cl of 40% spirit but I will only be diluting my âwhiskyâ flavoured drink 1:2 to get the same 8% abv in the glass so I assume I use one bottle of essence to flavour 1.5 litres of drink?
Bottom line: It's going to cost me around £2.80 for 1.5 litres of 20% âwhiskyâ flavoured drink when the cheapest supermarket own brand blended Scotch now seems to be around £11, so that might be worth a try, but would this actually taste anything like a cheap blended Scotch even when drowned with dry ginger? Who has made these brews? Has anyone made them more than once?
