rumby wrote:Mcstill,
I am using the same recipe as you, but using 8kg os white sugar, is that too much sugar.
Yeah I reckon it is way too much, your going to be pushing your yeast colony real hard trying to get more alcohol out of a wash with that much sugar in it.
By doing the get more hooch thing your yeast might struggle to get through all that sugar, and when yeast stress they can produce bad flavors in your final product, giving you mediocre booze.
Keep your next wash ABV% low, 12% at the most and you'll start to notice a big improvement in your final product.
The recipe I use is tried and true, been done many times by many people, sometimes we're all just better off sticking to what we know works.
Cheers.