No Sarky Comments Please

[Moley]

Mrs. Mole was at w**k again this morning, so after I'd cleared the kitchen of last night's debris I did some racking, bottling and new starts.

I mentioned before that Mrs. Mole had picked up some malt syrup (rice), reduced to 39p a jar, but I was told it wasn't much use for brewing. You should know by now that I quite often bend recipes or make things up as I go along, so here's a modified Rice & Raisin:

5 lbs long grain rice
1.5kg Sainsbury's ‘Value’ Sultanas (well they hadn't got any cheap raisins)
1kg Sugar (for starters)
2 x 330g Malt Syrup
2 tbsp Citric Acid
GP Yeast & Nutrient

There wasn't any dietary info. on the syrup jars so I boiled 1kg of sugar in some water, let it cool a bit, added two jars of the syrup, poured it into my bucket and made it up to 5 litres with cold water. SG of that was 1.112 which is 300g sugar per litre = 1500g so far.

Then I added 1500g of Sultanas and 5lbs of Rice, which brought the volume up to 8 litres, then I made it up to 3 gallons with cold water and added the acid, yeast and nutrient. There's a kilo of sugar in those sultanas but I haven't chopped them so I'm going to have to guess at the extraction if it stays in the bucket for 3 weeks. I will add more sugar after the ‘whoosh’ and when I've done the maths (and when I've bought some).

The plan is then to strain off the wine, add more sugar and another couple of gallons of water to the rice residue in the bucket, plus the third jar of syrup, and go again for a second brew, but this time I will mash whatever's left of the sultanas.


From the left, not quite 15 litres of Fruity Pink Wurzel's, about to be bottled, a regular Wurzel's Orange just started, 15 litres just racked, stabilised and finings added (which has now gone down the cellar for a week to cool and clear), and that bucket of rice.

 

[Samarith]

I don't see anything to be sarky about here.

I'm sure the guy who first said 'Hey lets put some of these hop thingies into our fermenting malt' got a few. I'm sure that the first guy to suggest making wine from some supermarket orange juice got a few giggles.

You've diverged from the safe path (and not for the first time according to your forum title!!), so worst case you can come back to the main road and put up a sign saying 'Stinking fetid bog this way, GO NO FURTHER!!' or best case are hailed as the new prophet and lead us all to the promised land.

 

[Moley]

I don't see anything to be sarky about here.

Sorry, a pathetic play on words, what do the Japanese call their rice wine?


I'll get my coat

 

[Muddydisco]

I thought it was good and got it straight away :thumb:

 

[Turbotez]

ahh, yes, 'Sake' (it wont let me do Kanji symbols!!)

Ade, do you go past the Bargain Booze in Wall Heath, they have Tate & Lyle sugar on at 69p a bag atm, my mum works there so get the inside info before it starts!!!

 

[Moley]

Ade, do you go past the Bargain Booze in Wall Heath

Well I could easily take a detour on my way home from w**k, although it would add at least a quarter of a mile :lol:

they have Tate & Lyle sugar on at 69p a bag atm, my mum works there so get the inside info before it starts!!!

I tend to stock up whenever Netto have it on a Weekend Special at 59p, but thanks for the heads-up and I may have to pay your Mom a visit :

 

[Samarith]

I don't see anything to be sarky about here.

Sorry, a pathetic play on words, what do the Japanese call their rice wine?


I'll get my coat

Whoosh, right over my head there. Maybe it was the accent you typed it in, can't be me slowing down...can it?

 

[Moley]

Maths comes in handy if you can't measure OG, so thinking aloud and using the forum as a note pad, if I guestimate 75% extraction from the sultanas that gives me 2250g of sugar so far, if I make it up to 15 litres that gives me 12 litres of liquid, if I want 14% abv or better that's 1.105 which is 282g/l x 12 = 3384 - 2250 = 1134g sugar still to add.

That one's already going like crazy, the lid isn't gastight but is bulging.

If you look at the latest batch of Wurzel's (middle big bottle in the photo above) I've got an airlock on that which gives small pops rather than big bloops. I can't tell you how that's already working simply because I can't count that fast, it's giving at least 5 pops per second! Temperature is now around 24°C so I may need to move it somewhere cooler.

 

[31bb3]

Nice experiment Mr Moley ,Nothing ventured nothing gained !!.
Try your local Farmfoods their selling two 1 kilo bags of sugar for £1 :thumb:

 

[Moley]

Try your local Farmfoods they're selling two 1 kilo bags of sugar for £1

Unfortunately, we haven't got a local Farmfoods.

I've picked some up from the pound shop, Whitworth's 1.5kg bags, so that works out at 67p/kg.