sweetfeed whisky

[Kentucky shinner]

If you like a really smooth whisky you need to try this recipe I have run it several times. It is easy and so far I have never had a ferment stall. If you try it let me know what you think. I have some that has aged on oak for about 2 months and it is really smoothing out. I oak at 55% ABV.


this is for 6 gallon wash

4" of sweet feed in the bottom of the bucket
7 pounds of white sugar
5 packets of bakers yeast or 8 tablespoons

heat 2 gallon of water to good hard boil then pour the water in the sweet feed add your sugar and stir for about 15min. the let stand for 90min. fill to 6 gallons with cool water after waiting 90min., your temp should be around 90F sprinkle your yeast in and stir gently. cover with lid and add your airlock. Mine is normally bubling away in about 4-6 hours. will run pretty good for about 2 days then will slow to a very slow rate. leave it for 5 days or untill you see it trying to clear sometimes it is 6 days. after that set it a cool place for about 24hours then rack it off and distill it. I normally get about 4 qaurts of low wines. sometimes my quart in the middle taste good enough I keep it aside and drink it just as it is.

after I run this through a pot still I use about half of my backset while it is still hot I put 7 pounds of sugar in the hot backset and convert my sugar. Let that cool to about 90F pour this back into your fermentor on your grain and yeast that was left in your bucket. add enough water to make 6 gallons normally my yeast wake up and are bubling away in about 4-5hours.

It seems very easy to me. I have really had good success with it. you can normally get your sweet feed at any farm supply store 50lbs for 7 bucks. It will last a long time

[Tater]

Here is another one from parent site A "genuine" moonshine recipe, as still being used by Deb Brewer is ...

* 5 gallon bucket all grain horse feed (we use MannaPro Hi Grain sweet feed)
* one package of yeast (using bread yeast now--others will increase quality and ferment time)
* 5 pounds sugar
* water
Put enough feed to cover bottom of 5 gallon bucket a good 4 inches deep Add 5 pounds of sugar. Fill 1/2 full with warm water--warm enough to melt sugar but not so hot as to kill yeast. Mix until sugar is dissolved. Add yeast and mix some more finish filling with warm water--again not so hot to kill the yeast. Cover with lid--our lid has a little cap that screws on, leave it loose to breathe.

4-5 days later it's ready to run! This is an old-timer recipe and works quite well. Our liquor is always 170-190 proof. You can substitute corn meal for the grain (horse feed) but I don't recommend this for pot stills cuz you can't filter it well enough. The meal will settle and burn in the bottom of your still. The old-fashion way of making corn liquor--with real corn--just is not feasible time wise.

[Kentucky shinner]

hey there Tater that is where this recipe came from. I just bumped it up a little to get more alcohol from a run. It is just so good and easy I could not believe more people aren't using it. everyone that has tasted this stuff loves it. I am not trying to claim this as my recipe i just think it is a really easy and cheap recipe.

[Tater]

Yep about every recipe that's sugar and fruit or sugar and grain was probably from a shiner.Just have to put your touch to it and make it your own .

[Kentucky shinner]

Doing a stripping run on this recipe today. I have found that distillers yeast works a little better I think. After I do this stripping run I will see if the flavor afected.

[Kentucky shinner]

just finished the stripping run. I got 6 quarts of low wines from 80% abv (3 quarts) then started dropping off down to 40% ABV. very pleased.

[Mud Mechanik]

Kentucky shinner, is there any ingredients that I need to stay away from in the sweet feed? I purchase this stuff all the time from my local feed store and they have several different ones to choose from, molasses/corn, canemolasses/oats, etc...I will try one batch of your recipe and post my results. I will be running it through a pot still.

[Kentucky shinner]

what I have been using is corn, oats, and molases . Let me know how it goes for ya.

[Kentucky shinner]

mine also seems to finish quicker when i use distillers yeast. If you have any you might want to try it that way.

[Mud Mechanik]

Thats pretty much all I use, superstart distillers yeast, have had great results with it and it is very temperature tolerant.

[Whitedog]

Hey, Mud.... sounds we fixin' to try thisin' out!!!

[Mud Mechanik]

This one sounds really good, can't wait to run off the Birdwatchers that is in the fermenter so we can get this one started.