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Like Bayoushine stated Restaurant depot has all you need from 25 lb bags of cornmeal, 50 lb bags of brown sugar, molasses, large cakes of bakers yeast, etc and at good prices. Just need an LLC with a tax id number and you can get a membership

Are you keeping the grains moist? Rotating them?

I just finished up the last of my stripping runs last night on an AG mash. I have 9 gallons for my spirit run on thursday. Should get a decent amount of hearts out of this recipe!!

Nope. Run it

I wasn't referring to conversions and nutrients. With enzymes I am being very efficient get all the available sugars out of the grains. What I meant is my lowest FG ferments have occured with high OG's as opposed to ferments with OG's in the 1.04-1.05 range. Lets just stick to the thread of recipe w...

I agree on that, but won't matter if your OG was only 1.04. I've had two really good conversions and in both my FG finished at 1.0 while another at 1.045 finished at 1.007. I don't know if it had to due with nutrients, but the temps were the same in both ferments with the same yeast strain.

I used to be a sugar wash guy and hadn't run my still in over a year and decided to start back up and do AG mashes. Messed up quite a few, but finally figured it out. I just did a corn/barley, rye mash recipe and got a SG of 1.079 and roughly a 97% sugar conversion thanks to bayous calculations whic...

Ferment inside your house where you can control the temps better. USO4 or bakers yeast may be better for your conditions than say US05 which prefers the temps in the 60's

I wouldn't have bumped up the temp to 168 since you killed the enzymes and stopped any further conversion

Just seeing this post. I think if you milled your wheat more you'd get a better conversion since you stated it was cracked. Your malt will thank you.

IMO if you are going to add sugar to an AG bill, you might as well just do a sugar wash. The flavors are much different between the two.

That is a low SG. I have a feeling you either didn't cook the corn long enough or your corn was more cracked and less ground which takes a longer time to cook to convert your starches. The finer the grains the easier it is to convert your starches also. Did you use any enzymes?

Everything everyone is telling you is spot on. I've screwed up quite a few AG mashes and learned something each time. I PM some guys for help and it is starting to pay off. Bayoushine has been a big help. Here is what I do. My local tap water isn't the best so I add supplements at the beginning (Eps...

Bob, next time I'd shy away from adding tomato paste to an AG mash. It could offset the flavor a bit. Tomato paste is more ideal in rum mashes.

Got 35# of corn and 15# of malted barley fermenting as of this morning. Hoping the air lock is bubbling nice when I get home!

Thanks guys

Trying to find the name of the hi temp enzyme some use to break down more sugar out of corn mashes if someone can help me!

Tater how is that corn meal not clogging up that filter?

3dog, what is your go to yeast for an AG mash?

Bayou, I don't think it is krausen. Looks more like pellicles. After this is done. I'm going to sanitize everything to the T. Is bleach ok to use as a sanitizer?

What would you do in my shoes? I just checked the SG and is right around 1.01

Just checked the temp, 64 degrees F

Tater I milled at home, majority was milled coarse. Some of the grains slipped through the disc and left whole. I assume that is all of which is floating up top. Maybe 2% of my entire mash, 25gallons. Since it was malted wheat, I got the water temp up to 160 degrees before adding the wheat. Got the ...

Here is a closer up pic.

What should I do? Let the yeast continue to eat or run it?

Dad, it doesn't have any bad smell to it at all. Slightly sour, but that is expected after 8 days. I'm really not concerned, just have never seen this type of bacteria before. It is the first time I've used US-05 as well.

Tater did you have any issues running that mash flavor wise?

Yep I'll post when I get home in a couple hours. I don't think I have an air lock issue. As soon as I secure the lid, the air lock startes bubbling within a minute. I've only opened the top to look once since I started fermenting. The cap hasn't been touched. There was a good foamy cap when I starte...

I just checked my AG mash after 8 days of fermenting last night and its still bubbling. Problem is I have white mold creeping in now just on the outer edges about an inch in diameter. It has to be due to the wheat I bought. I'm not freaking out and plan to run it soon. Question for everyone. How muc...

Swedish pride, let us know how that AG bill turned out. Thanks