BOURBON DISTILLERS RECIPE

Bourbon All  Grain Recipe Kit.

• This bourbon’s flavour profile can be characterised as having big vanilla, oak, and caramel notes. 
• This makes it a perfect whiskey for enjoying straight, on the rocks, or for mixing into cocktails.
• Instructions.
•  Mill the grains and dough-in targeting a mash of around 3 Litres of water to 1 Kg of grain (a liquor-to-grist ratio of about 3:1 by weight or around 20 Litres) and a single infusion temperature of 65°C.
• Test the pH of your wash. The accepted pH range for mashing is 5.2 to 5.8, with 5.4  considered the optimum. Use citric acid to bring the pH down and calciumcarbonate to bring it up.
• Sparge: Fly Sparge slowly with approx. 10 Litres of 77 °C water, collecting wort until the pre-fermenter volume is around 23 Litres.
• Pitch the Yeast - sprinkle on top of the wash.

•  Allow to ferment in the temperature range 20-35° C. 
• A cooler fermentation will produce less esters and take longer to ferment for an arguably cleaner more pure flavour.  
• A warmer fermentation will ferment more quickly and produce some more ester character to your wash and final spirit.  Aim for the higher end of the range around 32-35° C for a fuller flavour higher ester Bourbon wash.
• Fermentation should be completed within 3-5 days.  Wait for two consecutive days of consistent low Hydrometer readings.

• Vital  Stats:
• Fermentation  Batch Sizes: 23 Litres
• 7.5% ABVWash
• OG: 1.070
• FG: 1.013
• Mash  Efficiency: 75%
• EBC 9
• Boil Time: 0mins
• OPTIONALEXTRAS:
• Anti-FoamAgent