Fresh corn

[Hellitsme]

Hello All
I was wondering everyone takes about Corn mash from cracked corn. What if a person used fresh sweet corn? I live where there is an abundance of corn I was wondering if that would work?


Thanks Alot

[NZChris]

Met a guy who reckoned that fresh sweet corn plus honey made the best shine he'd ever tasted. So far, I've got the honey....

[DAD300]

There are videos on youtube of a guy who uses fresh and frozen corn...no issues. Corn from a can, can be bad as it will have salt and preservatives in it.

Most anything that has starch, it can be converted to sugar! Then it can be fermented.

You have two options for fresh corn.
1. cook it until it releases the starch and mash it
2. dry it, grind it to flour and mash it

[MichiganCornhusker]

It should work fine. But even though it's "sweet corn" you will still need to do a mash to convert the starches to sugars.
Also, if it isn't dried, you need to take the water content into account when developing weights for a recipe. You will need a lot more fresh sweet corn to equal the same amount of fermentables in dried corn.
Because of that, unless your sweet corn is free, it is much cheaper to go with dried field corn.

There is one thing about sweet corn that I've been wondering about. Does it require cooking to release the starches like dried corn? Wondering if you could just grind up sweet corn and mash it without the high temp cooking.
To be sure, I've been cooking mine at high temps first with liquid enzymes.

[NZChris]

When corn is sweet, the sugars haven't all been converted to starch. The timing is important to get the maximum fermentable sugars. The guy I was talking to said that the corn & honey shine his moonshiner friend made was not malted, so the sugars were only coming from the corn and the honey.