932. How to Prepare Yeast for Rye Whiskey or New England Bum

932.    How to Prepare Yeast for Rye Whiskey or New England Bum. To prepare yeast for 80 gallons mash, take 2 pounds of wheat meal and dilute it with sufficient warm water to make a thin paste. Then boil 2 ounces of hops in a quart of water, and when cold take out the hops and throw them away. Then dilute 1 quart of malt in a quart of water. Mix, cold, the hop water, paste and malt well together, and add half a pound of leaven. Cover the jar containing the mixture with a piece of cloth, and keep it 3 or 4 hours in some warm place until it rises. The fermentation will be perfect after the whole has arisen and then sunk down. Then add 2 gallons of the mash, stir the whole, mix it with 80 gallons of the mash, and begin the fermentation. This receipt is the very best for rye whiskey.

933. To Prepare Yeast for New England Rum

933.    To Prepare Yeast for New England Rum. To 80 gallons mash, add 1 gallon brewers' yeast and 1/2 pound carbonate of ammonia dissolved in a pint of water. Stir well, and begin the fermentation. Good for New England rum.

934. To Prepare Yeast for Rye Whiskey

934.      To Prepare Yeast for Rye Whiskey. To 80 gallons of mash, add 1 gallon yeast, 5 quarts of malt, and 1 pound of molasses. Dilute the malt with 2 quarts of water, and add the molasses. Keep the whole in a warm place until it rises, as described in No. 931. Add the yeast to the mash and stir; afterwards add the molasses and malt and stir again. Then begin the fermentation. Good for rye whiskey.

935. How to Prepare Mash for New England Bum

935.    How to Prepare Mash for New England Bum. For a still by steam or fire. To prepare 80 gallons mash, reduce the molasses 18 degrees by the saccharometer, add yeast No. 932, and stir well. Let it ferment at a temperature of 75° Fahrenheit, until the mash is reduced to 0. But as it is very difficult to get such a reduction, the operator may begin to distill when the mash marks 2 or 3 degrees by the saccharometer. Charge three-fourths of the still, and begin distilling.

936. How to Prepare Mash for Rye Whiskey

936.    How to Prepare Mash for Rye Whiskey. For a still by steam or fire. To prepare 80 gallons mash, grind the rye into coarse powder, then charge the fermenting tubs in the proportion of 110 pounds of rye to 80 gallons of water, and mix yeast No. 931 or 933. Let it ferment at a temperature of 75° or 80° Fahr., until the fermentation is completed. The fermentation will be perfect after the mash rises and sinks. "When this is done, charge three-fourths of the still and begin distilling. In preparing the mash, the operator may use all rye, as directed above - this makes the best quality of whiskey - or use three-fifths rye and two-fifths corn, or three-fifths corn and two-fifths rye.