StillSmart

Hi all started my first attempt at a corn/sugar mash yesterday

2kg cracked corn

6kg sugar

alcotec whisky yeast with amyloglucosidase

cook corn in 3 gallon water for 1,1/2 hours till corn is soft and most of the starch is released, strain in to ferment er, dissolve sugar in this hot wash, rinse the corn with hot water to get any remaining starch out then top up with cold to 26-28 litres leave to cool (3hrs) sprinkle yeast on top wait 15 mins and stir in. sg1090

will let you know how it goes in a few days Alan

Hi alan where did you buy the cracked corn from,I wanted to try goingbroke2\'s cracked corn wash but after a lot of searching the only place that I could find it was at an animal feed merchant but the smallest sack they had was something like 50kg,a bit to much to buy in one go.
Optic

Hi optic I split a 25kg bag with my mate £3,50 each he keeps a few chickens, plus he said i can have free eggs if i save the cooked corn for him

alan

Dont get me wrong but I dont see the point in this.

Wouldnt all the taste of the corn be removed when running through the still ??

Or am I missing the real point of doing this ??

Again, no disrespect

Flavours will carry over in a pot still if im not mistaken...

Hi Andy, as Marco83 said the flavours will carry over i did a wheatgerm wash a couple of weeks ago it came out very smooth its only been oak-ed for 10 days and already its good

Hi all just collected 700ml at 64% from my first run, plus 300ml at 30% which i will add back to the next run later will try a taste later to see if it needs filtering through carbon or not

alan

just finished running the last of my corn/sugar wash, ended up with 5.3 ltrs at 64% will cut to 45% then add some medium toasted oak chips to a gallon, I\'m definitely going to make a second wash later this week

alan

Hi aidanmac i used the alcotec yeast with AG amyloglucosidase to convert the starch, its worked fine I have done a couple of runs now an have 3 gallon on oak
Alan

Hi aidanmac its 3 gallon of water not 3 ltrs, i get my corn from a farm supply store. Alan

Hi aidanmac the corn/sugar wash makes a good whisky
iv got about 12 litres now on oak.I started a new wash recipe called sweet feed whisky i posted it on here in June its a doddle to do as everything goes stright in to the ferment er, iv got 4 gallon on oak and will start a new batch next week when and get some more whisky yeast with AG
alan