On Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 10:56:55 PM UTC-6, Garland Grower wrote:
Hello,
Needing to ask about a fix or correction or if there is anything I can do to save this.
My brother made some vanilla and we talked to him and also we did a little research on the internet about how to do this.
The alcohol it said was optimum at 47.5%, and vanilla I believe we did 13.5 oz per gallon of alcohol.
We made three bottles, the first with straight vodka and the second two we diluted one bottle of everclear with distilled water to make two bottles of vanilla. So we have three litres extracting and will bottle them up into smaller portions when they are done.
The PROBLEM is that the two bottles of diluted everclear became cloudy.
This really looks like crap and I wouldn't give them away to people like this, they were going to be Xmas gifts for Christmas 2010.
IS THERE ANY WAY TO FIX THIS???
People on the internet said they had done it before with EverClear, but we did not realize it would cloud.
Ugh.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Rita
I just recently ran into the same problem using Everclear 190 prf. I diluted the Everclear 50/50 with filtered water. Using 1 oz of weighed beans per 8 oz of the 50/50, I made 5 bottles. I used Tahitian beans. 3 of the bottles are perfectly clear,
the other 2 are cloudy. I ran across an article that addresses this problem. I must have had some very oily beans in those two bottles because they said the problem is in the suspension. Too much oil for the alcohol to break down. They offered 2
solutions, heat the extract slowly to evaporate some of the water out or, decant the two bottles and add more alcohol to them. I am inclined to use the latter method for fear of breaking down the alcohol by using heat. I don't know how this is going to
turn out but, if I can save 20$ in beans you can bet I'm going to try.
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