I will post a blog with full and easy step by step instructions. easyhomemadevod... This Vodka is made from sugar, original vodka is made from potatoes, but the yeast make the same type of alcohol
Also, don't put yeast directly into mixture. Put in a separate container, with warm water and a couple tea spoons of sugar and let set for a few minutes to activate yeast. Then pitch the yeast into your mixture and stir in.
According to that specific yeast you do in fact dump it directly into the wash/must. You also do not need to make a starter or rehydrate your yeast in any way shape or form while fermenting anything. Making starters only increase the yeast cells you add to the fermenter and gets them going faster.
If you don't pitch your yeast, it may not start fermentation because your mash may not be warm enough to activate the yeast. It also speeds up the fermentation process.
@@1rifter I've been making home made since 2001. I've only started my yeast in a separate vessel once. Pitching the yeast separately can not speed up fermentation. That's just now how it works.
This stuff is delicious when bottled with vodka flavourings. And it's about 26% alcohol. It works out about £2.30 per litre. I love it with ice and lemonade. I'll be on making my 5th batch this time. I'll never buy expensive vodka again. Great video. Thank you for sharing.
In chemistry Ethanol is made from the yeast fermenting the sugar, it can also produce Ethanoic acid which is the main component of vinegar if it is mixed with O2 what is being made here is pure ethanol and water (minus the trace Ethanoic acid and yeast). its not vodka, its simply water and ethanol, dilute it to make it more pure and pretty deadly to your liver.
Vodka is usually not aged and can be made from grains, potatoes, sugars, fruits, and just about anything else that can be fermented to produce alcohol. This makes vodka an economical spirit that can be made easily in a short amount of time from readily available materials. .
Yeah, the stuff you talking about is called Samogonka, typically pale white with a bit of a faulty smell and is usually very strong(50-60% alc/vol). Plywood produces methyl alcohols and will cause blindness/death very fast if ingested, the antidote to it is actually ethanol (drinking alcohol). And yes there were a lot of cases in Russia of consuming it...especially when the Royal Everclear (95% abv) was popular during the perestroika era.
I see some folks talking about "going blind" from this brew. As I understand it what would cause blindness would be consuming "denatured" alcohol (rubbing alcohol), or wood alcohol, which this mixture isn't. True, this isn't Vodka, which has to be distilled for a more concentrated APV. Heads and tails are accurate, but you're not going to have those "concentrations" with this stuff, just a fortified alcohol as you might find in something like Kahlua, or other cordial. This would be something to use as a "base" to make your own favorite Kahlua, Galliano, Lemoncello, Midori, etc. They just wouldn't have the same APV as the store bought, but would still give you a buzz. One of the classic fears that spring to most peoples' minds when the subject of amateur distillation comes up is that of going blind, or even dying, but this is a myth. Blindness, in this context, is caused by drinking methyl alcohol (i.e. wood alcohol). Anyone who ever went blind from drinking illicit liquor did so by drinking concoctions that were heavily adulterated with store-bought wood alcohol. There's a tendency for people to think that any mention of illicit liquor is referring to a product of illicit distillation. Many such illicit liquors are concocted by mixing ingredients from someone's garage or basement and are not produced by fermentation or distillation. Although a trace amount of methyl alcohol is produced by fermentation, it does not occur at a concentration capable of poisoning an individual. In fact, such trace amounts of methyl alcohol are removed from spirits by distillation, but remain in undistilled beverages like beer and wine. The truth is, there is very very little methyl alcohol produced by fermentation, so it poses no threat to consumers of beer or wine where it remains in solution, or to consumers of distilled spirits where it has been removed. And, in the event of poor distillation practices where it may not be completely removed, it still poses no more threat than it does in beer or wine where it's not removed at all. Doesn't anyone think about doing some research on line before posting silly comments? I guess not, as there seem to be no lack of them here.
Actually your right this is not vodka, but your wrong about one thing, if this mixture is distilled at the wrong temp it will make methanol("wood alcohol" which is what is added to denatured alcohol to make it non drinkable)to low a distilling temp you get methanol, around 155 deg.F(non drinkable)the right temp you get ethanol, around 177 deg.F to 180 deg.F(drinkable)much hotter than than and you scorch it( then tastes like crap)now you have shine to make it vodka it then needs to be ran through several active carbon filters.Just a note they use the low temp distilling process to make methanol fuel from corn.
adam brockus Do you not know how to hit the read more under what is posted, any ways if you did you would have seen that i said at around 155 deg F(wich is around the time it starts brewing)also said that would be methanol (dosnt take a freaking brain surgeon to figure it needs to discarded).Second vodkas not only made with potatoes its made with fruits, grains and sugar wash, what makes it vodka is that its ran through several active carbon filters(do believe i mentioned that too).Before you get all pissed off like you know every thing do us all a lil favor do some real research, Dont go by what you seen on one of ya fave T.V. show Moonshiners.
This is like when someone dies taking some pill that they thought was an E and it wasnt, but some other rat poison laced shit, then E's get all the bad publicity.(Probably another silly post) but it made me think of that. I will be distilling like a pure amateur very soon so its reassuring to know that I will still be able to read these daft fear mongering posts in future as I think I would be pish at braile.
Vodka does not have to be made from potatoes, that is a Polish version you are talking about. The original Vodka uses grains such as Wheat as its base. There also tons of different variations of Vodka in Eastern Europe depending on the country. Here is the actual definition of Vodka: Vodka - a distilled spirit produced from any material, distilled at/above 190 degrees, and bottled at no less than 80 proof.
What you have here is a 18% abv vodka wash ready for distilling. If you do not want to distill, just think of it as a diluted vodka, like if you leave ice cubes melt in the vodka and then drink it.
Here is the definition for vodka. Vodka (Russian: водка, Belarusian: Гарэлка, Ukrainian: Горілка, Polish: wódka) is a distilled beverage composed primarily of water and ethanol with traces of impurities and flavorings. Vodka is made by the distillation of fermented substances such as grains, potatoes, or sometimes fruits and/or sugar.
this is only the fermentation proces. and with a turbo yeast, like the used alcotec 48, you could reach 15 to 18% in about a week. after that, you will have to distil your 'wine' (2 or 3 times) to get a wodka. and it can be even better than the stuff you buy at the store.
So sugar water and yeast that’s it and let it settle for 5 days can ye put coffee and vanilla in it when it’s still at 40 think it would give it a kinda Irish cream kinda flavour
The air lock is needed not for bacteria but to produce more product. The yeast feed off of air in a normal environment but to make alcohol you need to starve the yeast of oxygen. At this point the yeast will adapt to the environment by converting the sugar into CO2 and alcohol. If you do not airlock and leave exposed to oxygen it doesn't starve all of the yeast and the yeast will produce less product. The alcohol distillation does not kill bacteria.
Ok let me clarify, vodka is essentially 40% ethanol and 60% water. Most marketed vodkas have trace impurities, but if you distill fermented grain or fermented sugar it really does not matter. The distillation process separates ethanol with some water and impurities. Further distillation further concentrates the ethanol. Then it can be diluted to 40%. There is no difference between ethanol made from grain and ethanol made sugar. At the end of the day ethanol is ethanol.
yes. it does. ALL fermentations will have a small amount of methanol. but even with a shody distillation, you would have to drink a couple of gallons in a short time, to get a harmfull dose of methanol. heck, there is more methanol in the booze you can buy in the store, than there is in most of the homemade stuff. a dedicated home distiller discards more heads (methanol) than most of the industrial distillers.
even still its gonna have a base yeast flavor that will never leave. don't get me wrong, its still drinkable but vodka is a rather neutrally flavored liquor with low fusel alcohol content, this stuff will not be the same.
Ok well anybody who know anything about making booze knows this is not vodka. You can't BREW vodka, you have to DISTILL it. I don't see any distillation happening here.
Agreed. You could put this in the freezer and skim off the ice that forms and get it up to about 30 proof. Be a weak vodka, but at least it would be more true to the name. They also make flavorings that will make it taste like peach schnapps, or other liquors. Filter it through a charcoal filter first to reduce the hangover potential.
OK, where do you get the high(96%) alcohol? You cannot ferment anything much over 25% as the alcohol kills off the yeast. The only way you get an alcohol content higher is to distill it.
PCShogun read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol Also factories producing vodka don't make alc, they buy it( usually cheap low quality) mix with water and bottle it.
i think that was kind of his point. the guy he was responding to said the video needed airlocks and to know how to distill, but to make "vodka" or "moonshine" you don't need the airlocks
Very true I make my own Vodka with sugar water and yeast. Then put it through a T500 still. Wonderfull stuff costs about €1.50. A bottle €2.00 a liter.
vodka can be distilled from any thang, traditional russian vodka was distilled from potatos because it was cheap. i have had vodka distilled fro apples , grain, sugar and other items as well.
A nice hack for "making bad vodka better", then use a gas mask filter. They are really cheap on ebay, and just run the liquor through it. The filter contains active carbon+"coffee filter".
I'm pretty sure this ' vodka ' won't be stronger than maximum 14 percent, as any higher would kill the yeast. You would need to distill it to get to actual vodka percents.
bakers yeast ferments to about 5-6 percent and there are lots of different yeasts that ferment from 5-24%. His specific yeast is tolerant of no more than 20%ABV
Ryann Large You seem to know quiet a bit about this process. (No I'm not being sarcastic) So what this makes, would you drink it? I'm debating on trying to make my own, following step by step.. read about other processes with air lock seals and juice. What would I use to cover this? saran wrap? and poke a hole or two for the co2 to get out?
blitzcarn I would taste it but I can't say if I'd drink it or not. The only flavour it would have in it would be the yeast you use. A lot of people that want to see if they're interested in homebrew typically go and get a gallon of juice and a water balloon. If you want to try it out for yourself get a gallon of juice get it home poor off just enough to leave a couple inches of room for the must(wine before it's fermented) to ferment put about a cup of sugar in the juice and a packet of yeast give it a shake put a balloon over the top and poke a hole in the bulbous part with a pin. This will let co2 escape and keep bacteria and other crap out of it. Within about 7 days you should have something drinkable(when the balloon deflates). It's fun to watch your creation ferment away. If you're still interested look around town for a home brew store and ask them some questions. It's pretty cheap to start off homebrewing. I think I paid around $70 for everything and about $50 for the honey I used in my first 5gal batch which is still fermenting away nicely. :) Check out craigtube and newtohomebrew tom Craig has a video called inmate brew which is a video for what I just said to do with the juice and both of them have quite a few brew videos to check out.
I noticed from the video, it was foot vodka. I would boil the water to kill any bacteria or molds and yeast, cool it to pitching temperature. pitch yeast, cover tightly with an air lock, wait for the fermentation to stop, the distill in a reflux still. There is a unwritten rule, wear shoes when brewing. most importantly cleanliness is everything unless you want methanol and formaldehyde and other bad alcohols. If done correctly, you should get 96%+ in first run. dilute with distilled water.
dang i i always took a 10 lb bag of spuds and ran em threw a hand crank meat grinder and 3 packets of bakers yeast and 25 pounds of sugar . held my yeast till the end and cooked my spuds till all it was was starch . then added sugar when mash tempt was down to 70 degs added yeast and this was all with a 40 gallon stanless pot , and what wasent cooked by boiling the yeast cooked , then ran it still came out with 160 prf or higher . mix it with creamed crorn for a kick .
I'll just go to the liquor store and get my Imported "Luksusowa" Polish Vodka made with potatoes. Absolutely the best Vodka you'll ever taste to date. . Priced right too
That is only true if not all of the sugar is consumed by the yeast during fermentation and you drink it as is. If you distill it to actually make vodka then it shouldn't taste sweet at all.
it is true vodka can be made from potatoes, but if you read on the bottles we buy it says grain alcohol....it's just a generically distilled alcohol......add some juniper berries to it and voila! You got yourself some gin.
40 degrees is wrong, the water is supposed to be 40 degrees before you add the sugar, after adding sugar it will be around 25 degrees. The upper temp limit is 32. I use an airlock but if you can get by without it, why not. I find cleanliness is key with this kind of brewing, making a completely odourless and tasteless alcohol is the goal. For the record, this isn't vodka either, it's neutral alcohol.
actually a wash is vodka. moonshine is just amateur vodka. good vodka is made from potatos but can be made from fruits as well. but I agree that it is not vodka until it is distilled
Key word: BREW. Distillation is illegal without permits, taxes, etc. in all 50 US states, regardless if the product is for personal use. Distillation is a class 1 misdemeanor, distribution/sales is a felony. Check the federal laws, I'm not wrong.
Exactly. This seems to coincide with the alcohol content, since brews top out somewhere around 20% abv, and obviously distilling can produce much higher. Then add the fact that a still can potentially be a bomb.
No, Vodka is made from potatoes. It is also distilled differently than most other spirits (or is in most cases). What this guy made is not a Vodka, plain and simple. It's also not distilled yet, so in reality it's still mash (or whatever you would call fermented sugar water).
I'm with LordTuna. This is sugar shine only. Potato starches need to be converted to sugar with an Amylase Enzyme. The Turbo Yeast simply changes sugar to alcohol. I like them method...used a lot...but not vodka.
Tuna didn't say 'all' vodka is made from potato mash. This video is simply a base mash to make into anything. I age mine to become bourbon with smoking chips from destroyed JD barrels. Some I mix with candies for cinn/hot flavors. But my base sugar-water-yeast is shine, not vodka. And when I use fruits, it's more like a rum or brandy when done. Different names but they all mean the same thing. My buddy brings over gallons of honey and we make Mead.....which is ____ ?
stoloveje Even if he did make shine out of it, it would be more properly termed rum. They make "vodka" out of grain now which is repulsive, even the high dollar stuff. If you have ever had true potato vodka you will NEVER drink grain swill again. Real vodka is even priced reasonably.
it matters with wine letting oxygen in AFTER it STOPPED fermenting. as for vodka it don't matter much. hell the batch I made threw nearly all the water out of the S bend ( i have a still and the whole bit). you need the hot water to help dissolve the sugar, then after it cools to about 22C, you add the yeast and as for me i add a heater that keeps it 22C.
I do this with brown sugar and Molasses , They are readily available at the dollar store at the same price. It'll be rum at the end . Vodka with white beet sugar or Corn Sugar, or dextrose, is used as a fresh ferment-able sugar Its Ok . Most accidents happen in distilling with dirty lines or lead in lines. I simply use compression fitting and a system that I can break down and wash The compression lines add temp zones and make it easy to measure . This is not wood alcohol , Like some say , wood alcohol is what it sounds like scrap materials suck and corn stalks wood and grass fermented with an acid to break down the long strain sugars .
i heard that if you eat your own poop you will turn into a stalk of celery but i dont believe everything i hear and if its questionable i look further into it before going around spreading myths with no idea what im talking about, maybe you should do the same
Piano Man42 yea pretty much nothing more than a waste of yeast you only need a small amount because the yeast will multiply on their own, which they will multiply enough to create more yeast than what was originally in the whole package obviously though to any homebrewer with even minimal experience its quite obvious the uploader of this video has extremely little knowledge in homebrewing if your really interested with homebrewing go watch some real videos that provide way better info this video and this guys "vodka" are total garbage
This is correct. I made many batches in my youth, and his formula is correct. However, when the mash stops bubbling, then come the fun part of distillation. And the other thing, is that if one is caught selling it without a Federal license, they are facing a felony charge. Ask some of the old moonshiners from back in the day.
This isn't vodka; your product is a wash of somewhere between 12 and 20% ABV, depending on which of the Turbo yeasts you used. As it stands it tastes rather unpleasant. To progress to a spirit you need to distil and use a purification process to remove undesirable by-products. Vodka is made from grain or potatoes as the fermentable material, not household sugar. .
Yea what Robert said and it needs to be ran through an active carbon filter(Vodka is also made with sugar wash and fruit)but none of its vodka until its ran through the carbon filters other wise it would just be moonshine.
Jeff, I think we would all be clearer on the subject if we called what you get by distilling a sugar wash "neutral spirit". That is how commercial / industrial distillers term it. If you are running a pot still, you can take the "hearts" fraction and that will be reasonably free of undesirable compounds. If you have a fractionating column it's possible to extract up to 96% (remainder water) pure ethanol. Once you have substantially pure ethanol (+ various amounts of water) you can add any flavour you want to it . Using activated charcoal for purification is a way of cleaning up the spirit if your distillation process isn't very precise. By the way, fermenting a wash containing fruit is about the only way that you can create a small amount of methanol in the product. You can't make methanol if you ferment only sugar.
No, there is none of that in vodka, especially not glucose (sugar) it is indeed distilled to ethanol and then diluted to about 40% ABV. Also almost all vodkas are fermented grain originally.
the gator The vodka you buy at the store is made by using yeast and a similar process. The video is very lazy, but the vodka you buy is ultimately the same as his "toilet water."
Let's get some things straight here: 1) This is not wodka, rum or moonsine! This is just a mash that's been fermenting for a week or so. 2) I wouldn't drink the mash if I where you, distill it and you got %60 moonshine (could be a bit less, give or take) + FYI: traditional moonshine would be made with corn(meal)
actually, with proper distilling, it will become a vodka. there's no official standard for vodka, it just needs to be to be a neutral spirit. to accomplish this, it goes through multiple distilling cycles to remove any anything else other than water and ethanol, then you dilute it with distilled water.
I use a turbo 500 from Australia. Comes out at 95% then i use bottled water to reduce it to 35%. Been doing it for years. I usr Burbon flavour in mine most like it lol.
Let's assume he uses an airlock next time. Would this solution work if he were to distill it after fermentation, or is this just a complete non-starter for vodka?
What's wrong with you guys? This person here is sharing how to make vodka. If you have read the last instruction "Cover your Mixture, but not air tight. Leave for 5 days or until it stop bubbling/fizzing". It can do no harm since he doesn't tells you to drink it. lol.
Common misconception that vodka is made from potatoes. Vodka is unlike Brandy or Whiskey, in that you're NOT trying to get flavours from the original mash. You're fermenting something and trying to get as close to 100% ethanol as possible, and then watering it down to desired gravity. With grain specific spirits (such as Whiskey), you're trying more for 85% purity, to keep some desirable impurities, such as a peated smell. Vodka most certainly can be made by distilling fermented sugar water.
Step 1. Disinfect and clean everything, twice to start and twice more every second time.. ..And remember kids; 'Cleanliness is next to not going blindliness'.
I think the idea is to make this 'mash' type thing then to distil it, and if you distil you don't need an air lock as it kills all the bacteria when boiling..... I think
@@carollopez8597 its only dangerous when you distill it, people untrained leave first drip with the main batch and that first drip is as toxic as yellow jacket venom that can blind you if drank.
I know this is a terrible video, but I have to point out that only a minority of vodkas are made from potatoes, most of them are made from grains. They can also be made from fruits and sugar, yes, even sugar. The idea is that no matter what product you're using, it has to contain sugar to ferment; and then this is distilled to a very high alcohol content, so almost no flavour other than ethanol is left. That's why technically vodka can be made from anything.
He means as the lack of detail about storage or collection of the vodka at the end, the video didn't address that. If you want to dunk your head in the bucket to drink it, go for it 🤣🤣
untrue. vodka can be made from anything fermentable. Vodka quality is determined by the purity of the ethanol produced from distilation, NOT by the grains or fermentables used.
I make my own spirits this way dude. The wash is normaly @ 20% then I put it in a Turbo 500 Still and I get 24-25 bottles @ 37.5% but I do double up the amount this guy used.
I work in the liquor industry and I can name a shit load more vodkas made from non potatoes than potatoes; Zyr, Russian Standard, Smirnoff, Four Oranges, Belvedere, Grey Goose, Ciroc, Gilbey's, Gordon's, Skol, Skyy, Beluga, Svedka etc. All those range from wheat to grapes, hell you can make vodka out of dead people if you wanted to.
The yeast (alcotec 48) eat the sugar and produce carbon dioxide and alcohol, making a dry alcohol solution. It will not make vodka though; it will be at 13-14% ABV and not distilled.
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Without a distillation process, you have made what is commonly referred to as "fuck all".
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I don't think I'd call it consumable. Watered down rubbing alcohol would be my description.
***** Bottle it and throw some jolly ranchers or kool aid into it and you got some cheap bum alcohol. Good enough for me.
Bartholomew Higgins Yes I've heard it called that too. A quart or two and you just don't care.
Vodka needs potatoes
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Also, don't put yeast directly into mixture. Put in a separate container, with warm water and a couple tea spoons of sugar and let set for a few minutes to activate yeast. Then pitch the yeast into your mixture and stir in.
According to that specific yeast you do in fact dump it directly into the wash/must. You also do not need to make a starter or rehydrate your yeast in any way shape or form while fermenting anything. Making starters only increase the yeast cells you add to the fermenter and gets them going faster.
You put yeast in a jar with warm water and sugar mostly to make sure it is active before putting it in your mash
If you don't pitch your yeast, it may not start fermentation because your mash may not be warm enough to activate the yeast. It also speeds up the fermentation process.
@@1rifter I've been making home made since 2001. I've only started my yeast in a separate vessel once. Pitching the yeast separately can not speed up fermentation. That's just now how it works.
when do add alcotec
This stuff is delicious when bottled with vodka flavourings. And it's about 26% alcohol. It works out about £2.30 per litre. I love it with ice and lemonade. I'll be on making my 5th batch this time. I'll never buy expensive vodka again. Great video. Thank you for sharing.
I need an answer as well,will I get drunk ????
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You’ll lose ur damn livers with all that sugar
@@22lrjayden81 The yeast organisms eat the sugar and shits out alcohol. There is no sugar in the end product
@@saidahmed1028 yeast eat all the shugar so dont think so
In chemistry Ethanol is made from the yeast fermenting the sugar, it can also produce Ethanoic acid which is the main component of vinegar if it is mixed with O2
what is being made here is pure ethanol and water (minus the trace Ethanoic acid and yeast). its not vodka, its simply water and ethanol, dilute it to make it more pure and pretty deadly to your liver.
diluting things makes them less pure.
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Vodka is usually not aged and can be made from grains, potatoes, sugars, fruits, and just about anything else that can be fermented to produce alcohol. This makes vodka an economical spirit that can be made easily in a short amount of time from readily available materials. .
Yeah, the stuff you talking about is called Samogonka, typically pale white with a bit of a faulty smell and is usually very strong(50-60% alc/vol). Plywood produces methyl alcohols and will cause blindness/death very fast if ingested, the antidote to it is actually ethanol (drinking alcohol). And yes there were a lot of cases in Russia of consuming it...especially when the Royal Everclear (95% abv) was popular during the perestroika era.
I see some folks talking about "going blind" from this brew. As I understand it what would cause blindness would be consuming "denatured" alcohol (rubbing alcohol), or wood alcohol, which this mixture isn't. True, this isn't Vodka, which has to be distilled for a more concentrated APV. Heads and tails are accurate, but you're not going to have those "concentrations" with this stuff, just a fortified alcohol as you might find in something like Kahlua, or other cordial. This would be something to use as a "base" to make your own favorite Kahlua, Galliano, Lemoncello, Midori, etc. They just wouldn't have the same APV as the store bought, but would still give you a buzz. One of the classic fears that spring to most peoples' minds when the subject of amateur distillation comes up is that of going blind, or even dying, but this is a myth. Blindness, in this context, is caused by drinking methyl alcohol (i.e. wood alcohol). Anyone who ever went blind from drinking illicit liquor did so by drinking concoctions that were heavily adulterated with store-bought wood alcohol. There's a tendency for people to think that any mention of illicit liquor is referring to a product of illicit distillation. Many such illicit liquors are concocted by mixing ingredients from someone's garage or basement and are not produced by fermentation or distillation.
Although a trace amount of methyl alcohol is produced by fermentation, it does not occur at a concentration capable of poisoning an individual. In fact, such trace amounts of methyl alcohol are removed from spirits by distillation, but remain in undistilled beverages like beer and wine. The truth is, there is very very little methyl alcohol produced by fermentation, so it poses no threat to consumers of beer or wine where it remains in solution, or to consumers of distilled spirits where it has been removed. And, in the event of poor distillation practices where it may not be completely removed, it still poses no more threat than it does in beer or wine where it's not removed at all. Doesn't anyone think about doing some research on line before posting silly comments? I guess not, as there seem to be no lack of them here.
Actually your right this is not vodka, but your wrong about one thing, if this mixture is distilled at the wrong temp it will make methanol("wood alcohol" which is what is added to denatured alcohol to make it non drinkable)to low a distilling temp you get methanol, around 155 deg.F(non drinkable)the right temp you get ethanol, around 177 deg.F to 180 deg.F(drinkable)much hotter than than and you scorch it( then tastes like crap)now you have shine to make it vodka it then needs to be ran through several active carbon filters.Just a note they use the low temp distilling process to make methanol fuel from corn.
jeff sharp U GET METHANOL NO MATTER WHAT IT COMES OUT FIRST FROM THE STILL SO ALLWAY TAKE THE FIRST BIT OF IT AND GET RID OF IT
adam brockus Do you not know how to hit the read more under what is posted, any ways if you did you would have seen that i said at around 155 deg F(wich is around the time it starts brewing)also said that would be methanol (dosnt take a freaking brain surgeon to figure it needs to discarded).Second vodkas not only made with potatoes its made with fruits, grains and sugar wash, what makes it vodka is that its ran through several active carbon filters(do believe i mentioned that too).Before you get all pissed off like you know every thing do us all a lil favor do some real research, Dont go by what you seen on one of ya fave T.V. show Moonshiners.
jeff sharp didnt see it at the time
This is like when someone dies taking some pill that they thought was an E and it wasnt, but some other rat poison laced shit, then E's get all the bad publicity.(Probably another silly post) but it made me think of that. I will be distilling like a pure amateur very soon so its reassuring to know that I will still be able to read these daft fear mongering posts in future as I think I would be pish at braile.
This looks like wine. I was so excited thinking there was an easier way to make vodka. My zombie friends won't be happy about this.
Wow, you really pour sugar slowly.
Nice tutorial ivan this will help us on combat!
Vodka does not have to be made from potatoes, that is a Polish version you are talking about. The original Vodka uses grains such as Wheat as its base. There also tons of different variations of Vodka in Eastern Europe depending on the country. Here is the actual definition of Vodka:
Vodka - a distilled spirit produced from any material, distilled at/above 190 degrees, and bottled at no less than 80 proof.
What you have here is a 18% abv vodka wash ready for distilling. If you do not want to distill, just think of it as a diluted vodka, like if you leave ice cubes melt in the vodka and then drink it.
Here is the definition for vodka. Vodka (Russian: водка, Belarusian: Гарэлка, Ukrainian: Горілка, Polish: wódka) is a distilled beverage composed primarily of water and ethanol with traces of impurities and flavorings. Vodka is made by the distillation of fermented substances such as grains, potatoes, or sometimes fruits and/or sugar.
this is only the fermentation proces.
and with a turbo yeast, like the used alcotec 48, you could reach 15 to 18% in about a week.
after that, you will have to distil your 'wine' (2 or 3 times) to get a wodka.
and it can be even better than the stuff you buy at the store.
Cool vid....for those who dont know alcohol. ..this will stop fermenting around 19-22....lets call it a very strong flavourless wine...
So sugar water and yeast that’s it and let it settle for 5 days can ye put coffee and vanilla in it when it’s still at 40 think it would give it a kinda Irish cream kinda flavour
The air lock is needed not for bacteria but to produce more product. The yeast feed off of air in a normal environment but to make alcohol you need to starve the yeast of oxygen. At this point the yeast will adapt to the environment by converting the sugar into CO2 and alcohol. If you do not airlock and leave exposed to oxygen it doesn't starve all of the yeast and the yeast will produce less product. The alcohol distillation does not kill bacteria.
Ok let me clarify, vodka is essentially 40% ethanol and 60% water. Most marketed vodkas have trace impurities, but if you distill fermented grain or fermented sugar it really does not matter. The distillation process separates ethanol with some water and impurities. Further distillation further concentrates the ethanol. Then it can be diluted to 40%. There is no difference between ethanol made from grain and ethanol made sugar. At the end of the day ethanol is ethanol.
yes. it does.
ALL fermentations will have a small amount of methanol.
but even with a shody distillation, you would have to drink a couple of gallons in a short time, to get a harmfull dose of methanol.
heck, there is more methanol in the booze you can buy in the store, than there is in most of the homemade stuff.
a dedicated home distiller discards more heads (methanol) than most of the industrial distillers.
even still its gonna have a base yeast flavor that will never leave. don't get me wrong, its still drinkable but vodka is a rather neutrally flavored liquor with low fusel alcohol content, this stuff will not be the same.
Ok well anybody who know anything about making booze knows this is not vodka. You can't BREW vodka, you have to DISTILL it. I don't see any distillation happening here.
"Vodka"
Agreed. You could put this in the freezer and skim off the ice that forms and get it up to about 30 proof. Be a weak vodka, but at least it would be more true to the name. They also make flavorings that will make it taste like peach schnapps, or other liquors. Filter it through a charcoal filter first to reduce the hangover potential.
Actually you are wrong. Vodka - is nothing more than mixture of high(96%) alcohol and water. If you distill - it's called moonshine.
OK, where do you get the high(96%) alcohol? You cannot ferment anything much over 25% as the alcohol kills off the yeast. The only way you get an alcohol content higher is to distill it.
PCShogun read
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol
Also factories producing vodka don't make alc, they buy it( usually cheap low quality) mix with water and bottle it.
Ok so you made, ethanol
i think that was kind of his point. the guy he was responding to said the video needed airlocks and to know how to distill, but to make "vodka" or "moonshine" you don't need the airlocks
Gonna make this as a gift for my mom
Like the other guy said. The is only a jail cell hooch. A tasteless wine at best.
Vodka comes from potatoes, is distilled ,AND is filtered
Very true I make my own Vodka with sugar water and yeast. Then put it through a T500 still. Wonderfull stuff costs about €1.50. A bottle €2.00 a liter.
vodka can be distilled from any thang, traditional russian vodka was distilled from potatos because it was cheap. i have had vodka distilled fro apples , grain, sugar and other items as well.
This is the funniest video to date and these are the funniest comments, I'm on the ground.
A nice hack for "making bad vodka better", then use a gas mask filter. They are really cheap on ebay, and just run the liquor through it. The filter contains active carbon+"coffee filter".
Those things aren’t cheap anymore 😂😂
@@123mcgarrigle Hahaha I was just about to say the same thing! I remember buying some in Jan 2020 and not being able to get hold of any by March 😂
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I'm pretty sure this ' vodka ' won't be stronger than maximum 14 percent, as any higher would kill the yeast. You would need to distill it to get to actual vodka percents.
bakers yeast ferments to about 5-6 percent and there are lots of different yeasts that ferment from 5-24%. His specific yeast is tolerant of no more than 20%ABV
Ryann Large You seem to know quiet a bit about this process. (No I'm not being sarcastic) So what this makes, would you drink it? I'm debating on trying to make my own, following step by step.. read about other processes with air lock seals and juice. What would I use to cover this? saran wrap? and poke a hole or two for the co2 to get out?
Thanks for the clarification. Still is only 50% though, which means you'll have to drink double the vodka...
blitzcarn I would taste it but I can't say if I'd drink it or not. The only flavour it would have in it would be the yeast you use. A lot of people that want to see if they're interested in homebrew typically go and get a gallon of juice and a water balloon. If you want to try it out for yourself get a gallon of juice get it home poor off just enough to leave a couple inches of room for the must(wine before it's fermented) to ferment put about a cup of sugar in the juice and a packet of yeast give it a shake put a balloon over the top and poke a hole in the bulbous part with a pin. This will let co2 escape and keep bacteria and other crap out of it. Within about 7 days you should have something drinkable(when the balloon deflates). It's fun to watch your creation ferment away. If you're still interested look around town for a home brew store and ask them some questions. It's pretty cheap to start off homebrewing. I think I paid around $70 for everything and about $50 for the honey I used in my first 5gal batch which is still fermenting away nicely. :) Check out craigtube and newtohomebrew tom Craig has a video called inmate brew which is a video for what I just said to do with the juice and both of them have quite a few brew videos to check out.
Yes, but I am just looking for a simple way to make booze thet won't make me blind
This is an excellent example of how not to make a video for TH-cam.
I noticed from the video, it was foot vodka.
I would boil the water to kill any bacteria or molds and yeast, cool it to pitching temperature. pitch yeast, cover tightly with an air lock, wait for the fermentation to stop, the distill in a reflux still.
There is a unwritten rule, wear shoes when brewing. most importantly cleanliness is everything unless you want methanol and formaldehyde and other bad alcohols. If done correctly, you should get 96%+ in first run. dilute with distilled water.
not sure if sarcasm or not. For the record, wine has more methanol than spirits do, provided that you throw out your heads when distilling.
Sugar, spice and everything nice...
dang i i always took a 10 lb bag of spuds and ran em threw a hand crank meat grinder
and 3 packets of bakers yeast and 25 pounds of sugar . held my yeast till the end and cooked my spuds till all it was was starch . then added sugar when mash tempt was down to 70 degs added yeast and this was all with a 40 gallon stanless pot , and what wasent cooked by boiling the yeast cooked , then ran it still came out with 160 prf or higher . mix it with creamed crorn for a kick .
Am i the only one that got creeped out when he slowly put the spoon in?
+paul Z lol
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i think yr the only one, yes :)
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I'll just go to the liquor store and get my Imported "Luksusowa" Polish Vodka made with potatoes. Absolutely the best Vodka you'll ever taste to date. . Priced right too
1) Vodka is primary made from grain, but can be made from potatoes. Vodka, as well as other alcoholic beverages, contains some suhar...
This reminds me of How To Basic
Vodka is indeed made from potatoes, but this is sugar wash, a little different and will have a sweeter taste then vodka has.
That is only true if not all of the sugar is consumed by the yeast during fermentation and you drink it as is. If you distill it to actually make vodka then it shouldn't taste sweet at all.
it is true vodka can be made from potatoes, but if you read on the bottles we buy it says grain alcohol....it's just a generically distilled alcohol......add some juniper berries to it and voila! You got yourself some gin.
40 degrees is wrong, the water is supposed to be 40 degrees before you add the sugar, after adding sugar it will be around 25 degrees.
The upper temp limit is 32.
I use an airlock but if you can get by without it, why not.
I find cleanliness is key with this kind of brewing, making a completely odourless and tasteless alcohol is the goal.
For the record, this isn't vodka either, it's neutral alcohol.
Where are the potatoes? where is the still? looks like you made a batch of sugar wine.
Thats what i was think i make moonshine and iv stilled vodka i dont see were there is a chamce on earth this would work
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@@afanvalleywarrior6351 it makes alcohol. All yeast needs is sugar water. I'm not sure how great this would be but might make a good mixer
Patagonia sucks and stinky . He's making pure European style.
Yes I make my Vodka jus like this then distill it after its finished fermenting.
actually a wash is vodka. moonshine is just amateur vodka. good vodka is made from potatos but can be made from fruits as well. but I agree that it is not vodka until it is distilled
Vodka is just alcohol and water. You can make vodka out of anything that has alcohol in it with enough distillation.
Key word: BREW. Distillation is illegal without permits, taxes, etc. in all 50 US states, regardless if the product is for personal use.
Distillation is a class 1 misdemeanor, distribution/sales is a felony.
Check the federal laws, I'm not wrong.
Exactly. This seems to coincide with the alcohol content, since brews top out somewhere around 20% abv, and obviously distilling can produce much higher. Then add the fact that a still can potentially be a bomb.
No, Vodka is made from potatoes. It is also distilled differently than most other spirits (or is in most cases).
What this guy made is not a Vodka, plain and simple. It's also not distilled yet, so in reality it's still mash (or whatever you would call fermented sugar water).
Please note if you drink this you will go blind, however if your hanging wallpaper it will do a great job
was he drunk at the moment?
I'm with LordTuna. This is sugar shine only. Potato starches need to be converted to sugar with an Amylase Enzyme. The Turbo Yeast simply changes sugar to alcohol. I like them method...used a lot...but not vodka.
Tuna didn't say 'all' vodka is made from potato mash.
This video is simply a base mash to make into anything. I age mine to become bourbon with smoking chips from destroyed JD barrels. Some I mix with candies for cinn/hot flavors. But my base sugar-water-yeast is shine, not vodka. And when I use fruits, it's more like a rum or brandy when done.
Different names but they all mean the same thing. My buddy brings over gallons of honey and we make Mead.....which is ____ ?
you should have to try it
To the people that say this is not vodka your right. I think you was just showing you how to make the mash/wash.
stoloveje Even if he did make shine out of it, it would be more properly termed rum. They make "vodka" out of grain now which is repulsive, even the high dollar stuff. If you have ever had true potato vodka you will NEVER drink grain swill again. Real vodka is even priced reasonably.
it matters with wine letting oxygen in AFTER it STOPPED fermenting. as for vodka it don't matter much. hell the batch I made threw nearly all the water out of the S bend ( i have a still and the whole bit). you need the hot water to help dissolve the sugar, then after it cools to about 22C, you add the yeast and as for me i add a heater that keeps it 22C.
I do this with brown sugar and Molasses , They are readily available at the dollar store at the same price. It'll be rum at the end . Vodka with white beet sugar or Corn Sugar, or dextrose, is used as a fresh ferment-able sugar Its Ok . Most accidents happen in distilling with dirty lines or lead in lines. I simply use compression fitting and a system that I can break down and wash The compression lines add temp zones and make it easy to measure . This is not wood alcohol , Like some say , wood alcohol is what it sounds like scrap materials suck and corn stalks wood and grass fermented with an acid to break down the long strain sugars .
bloke has a wedding band, wonder what his wife's thinkin
Good grief. You used that whole bag of yeast? Dude you need about a teaspoon.
Yeah man. I heard today people have died before by using too much yeast in homebrewing.
I'm not sure I buy that.
i heard that if you eat your own poop you will turn into a stalk of celery but i dont believe everything i hear and if its questionable i look further into it before going around spreading myths with no idea what im talking about, maybe you should do the same
***** It is a myth. I was wrong. I heard it from a buddy who had absolutely no idea of what he was talking about. Sorry.
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yea pretty much nothing more than a waste of yeast you only need a small amount because the yeast will multiply on their own, which they will multiply enough to create more yeast than what was originally in the whole package obviously though to any homebrewer with even minimal experience its quite obvious the uploader of this video has extremely little knowledge in homebrewing if your really interested with homebrewing go watch some real videos that provide way better info this video and this guys "vodka" are total garbage
This is correct. I made many batches in my youth, and his formula is correct. However, when the mash stops bubbling, then come the fun part of distillation. And the other thing, is that if one is caught selling it without a Federal license, they are facing a felony charge. Ask some of the old moonshiners from back in the day.
definitely not vodka. not even moonshine since it wasn't distilled
Where the hell has the distillation process gone? Damn... Its quite important! Just a little!😂
This isn't vodka; your product is a wash of somewhere between 12 and 20% ABV, depending on which of the Turbo yeasts you used. As it stands it tastes rather unpleasant. To progress to a spirit you need to distil and use a purification process to remove undesirable by-products. Vodka is made from grain or potatoes as the fermentable material, not household sugar.
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Yea what Robert said and it needs to be ran through an active carbon filter(Vodka is also made with sugar wash and fruit)but none of its vodka until its ran through the carbon filters other wise it would just be moonshine.
Jeff, I think we would all be clearer on the subject if we called what you get by distilling a sugar wash "neutral spirit". That is how commercial / industrial distillers term it. If you are running a pot still, you can take the "hearts" fraction and that will be reasonably free of undesirable compounds. If you have a fractionating column it's possible to extract up to 96% (remainder water) pure ethanol. Once you have substantially pure ethanol (+ various amounts of water) you can add any flavour you want to it . Using activated charcoal for purification is a way of cleaning up the spirit if your distillation process isn't very precise. By the way, fermenting a wash containing fruit is about the only way that you can create a small amount of methanol in the product. You can't make methanol if you ferment only sugar.
Robert Seviour its old school moonshine
Matteo in 't Veld Not until it's been distilled it isn't.
Matteo in 't Veld NO it's not! "Old School Moonshine" Is whisky made from corn.
No, there is none of that in vodka, especially not glucose (sugar) it is indeed distilled to ethanol and then diluted to about 40% ABV. Also almost all vodkas are fermented grain originally.
sugar is rum, cerial grains are vodka.
LOOKS LIKE THE INSIDE OF MY TOILET, THINK I'LL JUST BUY MY VODKA, THANKS!
the gator The vodka you buy at the store is made by using yeast and a similar process. The video is very lazy, but the vodka you buy is ultimately the same as his "toilet water."
I agree!
...the version made of cereal grains or potatoes isn't bad either...
Essentially vodka is just pure ethanol mixed with water. The less impurities you have the better the Vodka. That's all it is.
Let's get some things straight here:
1) This is not wodka, rum or moonsine! This is just a mash that's been fermenting for a week or so.
2) I wouldn't drink the mash if I where you, distill it and you got %60 moonshine (could be a bit less, give or take) + FYI: traditional moonshine would be made with corn(meal)
actually, with proper distilling, it will become a vodka. there's no official standard for vodka, it just needs to be to be a neutral spirit. to accomplish this, it goes through multiple distilling cycles to remove any anything else other than water and ethanol, then you dilute it with distilled water.
I use a turbo 500 from Australia. Comes out at 95% then i use bottled water to reduce it to 35%. Been doing it for years. I usr Burbon flavour in mine most like it lol.
Hey mate i am from aus can u send ur recipe this sounds awesome
Let's assume he uses an airlock next time. Would this solution work if he were to distill it after fermentation, or is this just a complete non-starter for vodka?
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why whats wrong with it
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@Sad Clown no its not getting drunk is
Double bag sugar dumping...very satisfying
What's wrong with you guys? This person here is sharing how to make vodka. If you have read the last instruction "Cover your Mixture, but not air tight. Leave for 5 days or until it stop bubbling/fizzing". It can do no harm since he doesn't tells you to drink it. lol.
it can accidentally catch fire...
Derfelkardan Not a chance of catching fire at this proof.
mark apencer lets get a dildo and not use it
Common misconception that vodka is made from potatoes. Vodka is unlike Brandy or Whiskey, in that you're NOT trying to get flavours from the original mash. You're fermenting something and trying to get as close to 100% ethanol as possible, and then watering it down to desired gravity. With grain specific spirits (such as Whiskey), you're trying more for 85% purity, to keep some desirable impurities, such as a peated smell. Vodka most certainly can be made by distilling fermented sugar water.
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ooh i liked so much
I think the idea is to make this 'mash' type thing then to distil it, and if you distil you don't need an air lock as it kills all the bacteria when boiling..... I think
that's a good way to shut down some internal organs!
Jonathan Handel : Bathtub Gin was reputed to have done so. .
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@@carollopez8597 its only dangerous when you distill it, people untrained leave first drip with the main batch and that first drip is as toxic as yellow jacket venom that can blind you if drank.
@@Jo-se8dy this is a sugar wash, therefore 0 methanol is produced.
I know this is a terrible video, but I have to point out that only a minority of vodkas are made from potatoes, most of them are made from grains. They can also be made from fruits and sugar, yes, even sugar. The idea is that no matter what product you're using, it has to contain sugar to ferment; and then this is distilled to a very high alcohol content, so almost no flavour other than ethanol is left. That's why technically vodka can be made from anything.
Whatever, you don't need any airlock if you distill it properly by cutting the head....
You have to distill it to make vodka. But you could still drink that stuff like some sort of beer.
pure waste of 2.39 minutes
they are just making alchohol i can agree with you fully brotha
2:40
He means as the lack of detail about storage or collection of the vodka at the end, the video didn't address that. If you want to dunk your head in the bucket to drink it, go for it 🤣🤣
untrue. vodka can be made from anything fermentable. Vodka quality is determined by the purity of the ethanol produced from distilation, NOT by the grains or fermentables used.
I like it, add all the sugar!
if only it WAS this easy
I make my own spirits this way dude. The wash is normaly @ 20% then I put it in a Turbo 500 Still and I get 24-25 bottles @ 37.5% but I do double up the amount this guy used.
Vodka doesn't have to be made just from potatoes, it can also be made with sugar cane... actually sugar cane vodka from Brazil is the best tasting.
vodka can be made from all different types of things even sugar cane
I work in the liquor industry and I can name a shit load more vodkas made from non potatoes than potatoes; Zyr, Russian Standard, Smirnoff, Four Oranges, Belvedere, Grey Goose, Ciroc, Gilbey's, Gordon's, Skol, Skyy, Beluga, Svedka etc. All those range from wheat to grapes, hell you can make vodka out of dead people if you wanted to.
People in my country drink this regularly
when I saw all that sugar he pour in I'm like "oh god diabetes"
The yeast eats it
it's really work?
Wow! That was easy
Only Poland and WWII Russia use potatoes. Most Vodka is made from grain.
It's not illegal to brew your own product. It's illegal to distribute or sell it.
The yeast (alcotec 48) eat the sugar and produce carbon dioxide and alcohol, making a dry alcohol solution. It will not make vodka though; it will be at 13-14% ABV and not distilled.
just need to make some since im depressed and had a break up
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