I know this has been addressed in some of the T & T threads, but it bears repeating. I recently started adding my cracked corn to a 4 gallon pot and filling it with water, then leaving it in the oven for 8 hours at 200 degrees before starting my mash procedure. The first time, I used 15 pounds of corn and when it was done, the corn had actually absorbed all the water and pushed the lid of the pot up a couple inches. So I backed down to 10 pounds and I got near-perfect absorption.
From there, I go through the pintoshine method, adding the cracked corn into hot water being stirred by an overhead 1/2 " drill with a mud paddle. Once all the corn is in and I've added the Sebstar, I run an immersion blender to break the larger kernels down. This has allowed me to get the amount of sugar I used to get from 15 pounds of corn out of 10 pounds. OG of the resulting lautered mash is around 1.058. I then add sugar since I'm making gin, not whiskey, but this would easily work for making whiskey. The mash ferments down below 1.000 and makes a very nice tasting white dog.
Pre-cooking corn
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Re: Pre-cooking corn
Great idea on the immersion blender. What's squeezing like?Lawfish wrote:I
Once all the corn is in and I've added the Sebstar, I run an immersion blender to break the larger kernels down. This has allowed me to get the amount of sugar I used to get from 15 pounds of corn out of 10 pounds.
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Re: Pre-cooking corn
I use a 5 gallon bucket with 3/32" holes drilled in the bottom and a drill with a plaster paddle. No squeezing here.
Lawfish
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Re: Pre-cooking corn
8 hours at 200 degrees? Fahrenheit, I presume? So 93 dgr Celsius.
Doesn't that cost a lot of energy?
Doesn't that cost a lot of energy?
Re: Pre-cooking corn
I don't think it takes much energy. Gas stove on low all day.
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