Have searched with no luck, so....how do you get your molasses from the large bucket into your fermenter without covering everything in sticky black goop?!
If your fermenter doesn't have a wide mouth, transfer a little bit at a time to another bucket with hot water in it, mix, pour more easily. When you get down to a quarter or so in the molasses pail, add the hot water there instead so you can clean it out.
Cheers guys, I can get a container into the drum, more the spillage/dribbling as I transfer that I want to minimise...will try the bucket and heat, cheers
I had an inch ball valve in my 200l olive drum. Made a drip catcher from a tin with a handle that hung from the valve. I may have a photo somewhere....
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I buy "cane flow" molasses. All the bits of nutritional information are the same as standard feed molasses but it's runny like syrup.
It will be a bit easier to work with if you can figure out a way to heat it up a bit.
If your fermenter doesn't have a wide mouth, transfer a little bit at a time to another bucket with hot water in it, mix, pour more easily. When you get down to a quarter or so in the molasses pail, add the hot water there instead so you can clean it out.
I just scoop out of the bucket using a Pyrex 1L measuring cup. When I'm finished, I rinse the cup with very hot water and add that to the fermenter.
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Drum heater on your mollasses drum run overnight or if it's a smaller 20l drum stand it in some hot water?
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Cheers guys, I can get a container into the drum, more the spillage/dribbling as I transfer that I want to minimise...will try the bucket and heat, cheers
Can you pour into a container from the drum, so that the outside stays clean?
Fill a spare bucket with clean water and a wet clean sponge prior to pouring. Dribbles clean right up.
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There are special molasses valves that 'cut' the flow off.
I had an inch ball valve in my 200l olive drum. Made a drip catcher from a tin with a handle that hung from the valve. I may have a photo somewhere....
Nope
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There was a discussion on ADI about it I believe.
I work at the moment in buckets and am pre-heating with a heating belt. There's drum heaters as @punkin suggested.
If you have a heater and some lifting/tilting equipment, you can heat and then dump directly into your fermenter using a spigot.
The ones I'm talking about are nondrip. @googe was chasing one somewhere.
Just google molasses valve.
Here's the link: Getting Molasses out of 55 gallon drums @ ADI Forums
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Good grist for the mill. I think the hot water and rag makes sense.
I think they are usually known as a "honey gate"
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Is the counterfeit Manuka thing?
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We don't have manuka at this corner of the polynesian triangle.
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Several species. Scorpions too.
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