Well, the bochet seems to have fermented ok. I was very lapse with it.The master plan was to use the stirrer and make it my first stir plate attempt, but for reasons I don't yet understand, the fucking stirrer kept throwing the stir bar off the magnetic field. I even sent off for a longer bar to see if that would work but it didn't. So I lost interest in it a bit and forgot to add nutrient and stuff like that.
Anyway, it seems to have fermented ok and it's even cleared pretty much. I haven't tested it recently but when I did the other week it was at about 1.004 and now its racked out of the 5 litre erhlenmeyer flask into a DJ it still tasted a bit weird. Plus there was about a half litre of air space so I just topped it up with a sour mash whisky as it was to hand.
I'm not fussed how it's come out as I'm more interested in getting a working stir plate for some other traditional batches. I can focus on sorting out yeasts etc for now, as the D21 I did have had given up the ghost and wasnt starting at all.
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FB, you wankered up your bochet to play with a little spinning bar! Priorities mate! WVMJ
This is interesting, as my bochet seems to have run short on fermentable sugars around the 1.027 (I need to check the gravity when I get home) area, I did feed it nutrients and baby it. I'm wondering if our processes in caramelizing the honey had such a drastic difference. Onto the research I guess.
~Marshmallow Blue
I've found that if the magnets on the stir plate aren't aligned right it will throw any stir bar you couple it with. If you can fiddle with the stir plate magnets I'd recommend giving that a try.
It's on the "to do" list.
I'd like to try a modified computer fan for the actual stirrer too, but would need to make a housing and a power/voltage controller I suspect.......
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