Ben,
Try the molasses first. This way you will get the experience and
confidence to quickly assess what is going wrong with the fermentation of
other products and to learn how you can correct this. Yeast need simple
sugars to convert to alcohol and if you tackle one thing at a time you will
learn quickly. Grains need their more complex sugars converted to simple
sugars first before yeast can utilize them. This is done through the
processes of liquefaction and saccharification which are achieved through
heating and the use of acid hydrolysis or enzymatic hydrolysis. More complex
sugars means the chain lengths are much longer and they need to be converted
or broken down to sugars of one or two molecules (glucose or dextrose)
rather than their existing chain molecules which can quite often be up to
20,000 to 30,000 molecules or longer in their more complex form.
Once you have tried molasses and got a bit of experience you can then go on
to try corn, wheat, and potatoes probably in that order but to do this
properly you will need some basic form of cooking and heating facilities.
Potatoes although looking one of the easisest because they are mostly starch
are in many ways the hardest. Dont be like the guy who gets out of bed one
day and apart from living in a house and no other experience decides without
knowing how that he is going to build a house. If you learn some of the
basic skills and understand what you are doing first you will find it
becomes that much easier and also that much more likely to be successful.
B.r., David
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From: Benjamin Dilworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: biofuel@egroups.com <biofuel@egroups.com>
Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 5:35 AM
Subject: [biofuel] Ethanol
>I have been looking for some easy recipes to make my own ethanol, without
much
>luck. I have an excess of cull potatoes here on the farm though, it
doesn't
>look like they yield too well. I also raise corn, wheat, and have feed
grade
>molasses that I get pretty cheap. From what I have found of them all the
>molasses is the easiest to convert, but I was hoping to try the others. If
>anyone has fairly simple recipes to start with I would appreciate them.
>Thanks; Ben
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