Nice little article in this months Entrepreneur Magazine (page 60).
Talks a bit about the continued good health of the "craft" industry for 2014
Not a whole lot of content but a nice little piece never the less.
WTG
18 brix (plus or minus) is optimal for fermentation.
Often the analyses supplied by molasses vendors used to determine the practical differences in grade are,,,,,,,,ambiguous. Pot luck comes to mind.
The cane juice will keep indefinitely if frozen and shelf life can be extended with refrigeration. But then that is a whole nuther layer of bottom line broken off.
At that gravity I'd simply taste it.
Could just be trapped C02 finding it's way out from under any solids that have fallen out of suspension?
Is it sweet or dry like dry wine?
The StillDragon Hydro/Alcoholmeters are $22 for a 5 pak here in the US.
Freight is likely $12.50 for priority.
Check against your good proofer to conclude further.
Jedd Makes a good point.
If I had my druthers, I'd much prefer a gutter/ trough / deck styled floor drain system that would allow for re-positioning equipment as the floor space evolves.
Can line an entire array of tanks along the floor. Then push and pull the lay out as you add pieces down the road with out affecting the need for drain mods..
No but there are run strategies that can help the operator render two different products from the same boiler charge as our reflux condensers can put the rig into 100% reflux mode at any point during the run...the only real issue is taking good notes in order To replicate the run strategy or not.
As far as removing or adding plates prior To a run,,,,,thats easy peasy.
The 6 and 8 components are now available but they are not yet a stock item here in the US. We can certainly drop ship any orders placed.
We can also take an opprtunity to install any extra service ports needed to insure that the apparatus marrys well with any of your monitoring equipment.