Sweet Corn Mash

[Dnderhead]

cook the corn separate ( fresh corn can be mashed does not need grinding) then add enzymes (gluco/alpha amylase-- not glutamate! (unless your making health food drink) or crushed malt at 150F just rap pot/fermenter in blanket /towel to hold in heat.when cooled to 80f add yeast.

[thumper123]

I had an interesting experience when I was a lad making corn whiskey. It smacks of the methanol theory dndrhead brought up about using corn cobs. It seems that around here corn sileage is the favored cow feed. It's just corn, stalks and all, ground up and blown into the silo and allowed to ferment. Copious amounts of juice flow out the bottom of the silo as the process heats up. I had the brilliant idea that I could collect the fermented juice, run it through my still and save a whole lot of work. Uh, uh. The result was the most nasty stuff I ever made. Every bit tasted like what you guys call foreshots. It must have been very high in methanol. Anyway, nobody got sick from drinking it - it was horrible.

[Dnderhead]

" Copious amounts of juice flow out the bottom "
what we would call "corn sqeezings" only true alcies drink that stuff.

[rad14701]

I had an interesting experience when I was a lad making corn whiskey. It smacks of the methanol theory dndrhead brought up about using corn cobs. It seems that around here corn sileage is the favored cow feed. It's just corn, stalks and all, ground up and blown into the silo and allowed to ferment. Copious amounts of juice flow out the bottom of the silo as the process heats up. I had the brilliant idea that I could collect the fermented juice, run it through my still and save a whole lot of work. Uh, uh. The result was the most nasty stuff I ever made. Every bit tasted like what you guys call foreshots. It must have been very high in methanol. Anyway, nobody got sick from drinking it - it was horrible.

Been there and done that... Absolute rotgut... Terrible stuff but I was young and would try just about anything that would ferment once back then... Skipped the T-shirt...

[aircarbonarc]

What about using canned or frozen sweet corn niblets? It's cold here and the local sweet corn isn't in season...

[still_stirrin]

What about using canned or frozen sweet corn niblets? It's cold here and the local sweet corn isn't in season...

Dead thread.

Go to the "grains" forum and search there. You'll find many threads with this very question already asked and answered.
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