Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Been away for a while, still stilling but not typing. I do 30 gallon ferments of TPW in a Brute following a recipe that calls for 318g of baker's yeast for that amount. Does this seem to be too much to you? That is a lot of yeast I said to myself. So on my last ferment I only added 200g. I did not seem to see any changes. Took about a week for finish, same as always. How much do you use for a thirty gallon ferment? How low can I go?


30 gallon/113l wash
34oz/1004ml tomato paste
4.2 lemons juice
56lb/25.43kg sugar
318g/.318kg Bakers yeast
.71 teaspoon Epsom salt

3" Boka

You can probably reduce the sugar a bit.
1kg per 5L = 22.6kg per 113L
You could probably halve the yeast again, just rehydrate it instead of sprinkling it on top.

I am about to put another ferment down tomorrow. Looking forward to the rehydrate method. I've been looking at it, however not tried. Also, I was doing "one runs" until recently and could detect a prominent off flavor. Possibly this was too much sugar stressing out my yeast. Since changed to strip and reflux....life is better now. Should have listened to the smart people earlier :handgestures-thumbupleft: