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Mashing apples

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  • For predictable results juice the apples and check the sugar content with a hydrometer.
  • Add water until you reach between 1.080 and 1.100
  • Then add the yeast.
  • For best results use a fast acting yeast such as a brewers yeast or
  • Turbo yeast otherwise your juice will spoil too quickly for the yeast to use the sugars.
  • A pickup truck full should make 5 or 6 55 gallon drums full of mash.
    • Distill as soon as your alcohol is made or your mash will grow a nasty fungus.
  • If you can only mash and grind the apples it will take more drums, a lot more.
  • It will also consume more time than you may have…

Source: Alcohol Fuel Forum

 

REAL LIFE POSTINGS

  •  Having done apples here's my $.02.
  • Apples produce their own sugar, there's nothing to *adjust*.
  • How much depends on lots of things from how ripe they are to
    how much starch conversion you do with enzymes.
  • Without a way to measure anything,
  • I'd recommend just mashing them up, add yeast, keep warm and air-tight until fermentation stops.
  • Will you get a high % fuel: No, but you'll get some. Can you get more:
    Yes. There's lots more to it but you need to be more specific on what
    you've already done and plan to do.
  • Second recommendation: get a hydrometer. They're cheap.
    ~Den