Found this at the local woolies yesterday, think I'll give it a go at making a bourbon/whiskey.
It's a nutrigrain knock-off but with different proportions of grains (higher corn:oats ratio). It's 51% cereals, but only 7% corn. Nutrigrain says it has more oats than corn, but doesn't say the percentage. It's also a lot cheaper than nutrigrain on a weight basis.
I don't think I will follow kimbo's recipe as I don't want to use 1.6 kg of cereal in my first wash instead I'm going to use the weetbix allbran wash as a guide.
Weetbix is 97% wheat. I'll take the version of the weetbix all bran (wbab) recipe that I've been using (what I call a weetbix wash) and substitute the Max Charge. I'll roughly double the amount of cereal though to make up for the fact that there's approximately half the grain in the Max Charge. When I do a weetbix wash I use 18 weetbix per 20 L wash. There's 72 weetbix in a 1.2 kg box and 18/72 is 1/4. 1/4 of 1.2 kg is 300 g, so that means I'll need 600 g of the Max Charge. This new stuff comes in 560 g boxes, so I'll just use a full box and be done with it.
I'm going to give the saf gold yeast I got from Andrew a go. I normally use Bakers for weetbix wash. I'll use the same quantity.
I'll run it through 4 plates (no stripping) and age on medium toasted American oak dominoes. Backset and new sugar returned to the fermenter (once cooled) and the process repeated for generations.
So the overall plan for a 20 L wash:
5 kg sugar
560 g box of woolworths Max charge
1.5 teaspoons Epsom salts
1 teaspoon citric acid
Water to the 20 L mark with lots of aeration
1/4 cup saf gold yeast sprinkled on top
Now because I plan on doing generations I'll probably use an airlock. I'll be treating this with more care than I do my weetbix wash for vodka basically :romance-kisscheek:
Since I've only ever done generations with bwko I'm not sure what I should do each generation with respect to the amount of backset and addition of extra Epsom and citric acid. Anyone care to advise?
I'm also going to be putting on some other experiments with the saf gold to compare it to the Bakers. But that's another thread (or two).
I'll keep you posted of progress.