for Distillation:
3rd batch
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in pot: frozen blueberries + pinch of water + pinch of pectinaise, slowly warm and squish. after 30 mins add 1.5L apple juice + 1.25kg sugar warm up a bit more, dissolve sugar / make a slurry
add remaining sugar and juice to fermenter, stir. add 1L backset, add nutes, acid and salt, add the blueberry slurry, stir
pitch 24/12 @ 10 pm - 26.7c
2nd batch
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Combine 1kg of dextrose with blueberries and water to make up 1L on stove. heat to aprox 40c to disolve sugar, mash berries up, add a pinch of pectinaise.. sit for 30 mins.
mix all the bottled juice, 1kg dextrose and nutes in fermenter
add the blueberries mixture
pitch yeast.
pitch temp 26.7 C (hot day) put into chiller overnight
batch 1 notes:
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juice + less yeast food, no blueberries, no water.
21L / 6gal
pitch on 23/11 @ 11PM - 23c
max temp up to 27/28 C (too high)
needed top up of yeast food after a few days to drive off sulphur smell
distill on 4/12 @11 Am -23c finish.
sulhur smell gone from ferment and smells great in still