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Turbo Yeast and moonshine alcohol. Use a reflux still when making moonshine (distilling)
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Turbo Yeast
How to make moonshine lightning fast - all you ever wanted to know.

Alcotec 24
Make moonshine in 24-hours..

Alcotec 48
The dual turbo; super fast or high alcohol.

Alcotec 23%
The most extreme high alcohol moonshine turbo in the world.

Alcotec Triple Still
Or the art of fermenting a wash as pure as Vodka.

Alcotec VodkaStar
The new turbo pure for pot still users. Even better if you have a reflux still.

Alcotec 6
The original 3-day turbo for reflux stills.

Alcotec Gold
New - with the new extreme purity technique for making moonshine.

Alcotec 8
The original high alcohol turbo yeast for reflux still.

Alcotec 24 TurboKlar
The 24-hour fining agent for your wine or wash.

Alcotec Spirit Kit
High alcohol kit for those who don't own a still. Better than the amazing still!

 

About Us

Copyright by Alcotec 2005

Warning: Using a reflux still for making moonshine (alcohol distillation) may be illegal in your country of residence!

Disclaimer: Using a reflux still or following any other advice on this site may be illegal in your country of residence and in that case you must of course not follow it. This site adresses an international audience and we do not take any responsibility for the legality in each and every country - you need to investigate that yourself and make sure you always follow the law where you reside. Note particularly that it may be required to add fruit in your wash - or that you may only use activated carbon for water filters (water purification). This may apply to all types of activated carbon, whether powdered or granular, whether prefilters for reverse osmosis water purification, ultraviolet water filtration, ozone or any other water filters. You may not be allowed to use a reflux still, pot still or any other device to make moonshine (distill alcohol). Should any of the advice given here require a special permit, license or other approval - you are obliged to acquire such permit, license or approval before following our advice.

Reverse osmosis filtration

Turbo Yeast supplies in Germany:
Turbohefe kaufen Sie hier:
www.turbohefe.de

Turbo Yeast supplies in the Netherlands:
www.turbogist.nl

American Turbo Yeast supplies
www.crosby-baker.com

Australian Turbo Yeast supplies:
Samuel Willards - Morgans Brewing
Queensland Brewing Company
Malthouse Brew Supplies
New Zealand Turbo Yeast supplies:
www.spiritsandbrewing.co.nz
Stills in the UK :
www.stillshop.co.uk

Turbo Yeast:
Clearing your alcohol in 24 hours!

Turbo Yeast like the Alcotec 24 become even more useful if you can clear the wash equally fast.

With the new Alcotec 24 TurboKlar - a 24 hour fining agent for wine and turbo fermentations - this is now possible!

The Alcotec 24 TurboKlar will clear your turbowash in only 24 hours to brightness, or near-brightness. Ready for your reflux still, and for the final treatment with activated carbon and essences.

Alcotec 24 TurboKlar will help producing very clean alcohol with a minimum of off-flavours. Your spirit will normally need treatment with activated carbon for maximum quality but you may well find that your charcoal lasts longer because of the clean alcohol produced.

We recommend using Vinland Essences when flavouring your homemade vodka. This is a small, very high quality range of the core types of spirit essences.
 

How to make moonshine - some background

Fermentation - How it all works

So what is fermentation really? Well, slightly simplified, it is when yeast cells are eating sugar and (unfortunately for themselves) produce alcohol as a byproduct. Alcohol is poisonous to yeast cells and in the end it will kill them.

But it turns out that yeast cells are cleverer than you would expect. They can't stop eating sugar, it is just too yummy, so they have to do something else to stay alive for as long as possible.

When they sense that the food supply is getting low (and the alcohol level high) they start to grow a lot of hairs (filaments). After swimming around for a while these hairy yeast cells get tangled up with each other and form large "clouds" that will eventually get so heavy that they sink down and form a sediment.

The cells in the upper layer of the sediment will work as "life guards", protecting the others with their own bodies. This enables some cells to stay alive for a long period in a poisonous environment. And this is the reason your wine will clear - eventually - even without fining agents.

Alcotec 24 TurboKlar:
Speeding things up

Alcotec TurboKlar finings is made from natural products and works a bit like "hair extensions" for the yeast cells. It is a two step process where the first sachet (kiselsol) will speed up the natural hair growth so the "clouds" appear sooner and the second sachet contains very long molecules (chitosan) that will be the "extra hair" which tie up the "clouds" more firmly.

So in short: Add the first sachet to speed up natural hair growth, then add the long molecules of sachet no 2 to bind the yeast cells more firmly to each other. They will of course then drop down very quickly and your wine will clear. Obviously, you need to be careful when adding sachet B - if you shake/stir too much you will break up the clouds when you really want to bind them together. You should only shake/stir enough to distribute the content in the liquid (so all "clouds" bind together).