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Can anyone provide a general rule of thumb on how much yeast to pitch? I tend to make 5 gallons of basic cooked corn mash and suspect that I am using too much yeast. For a new 5 Gallon mash, using distiller yeast, how much should I use? Also about to start reusing my previous mash and start using ba...

DuckofDeath wrote:no enzyme breakdown.. definitely need some 2 or 6 row malt. Corn will gel up. You should also cook the cracked longer to make sure you get full extraction

What is 2 or 6 row malt?

DP is how much enzymes in the malt,and how much is needed to convert the starch. if the enzymes do not convert the starch the mash will just stay thick. so when you cook starch it gits thick (like cooking gravy),then when you add malt it will thin out if all is done correctly. THANK YOU! I can be t...

first corn is rather lite in the DP witch means it will take more mated corn. i use at least 50/50 .(and most times 100%) next enzymes deactivate above 160f/71c,,preferably like 140f/60c. so if you added the malt just after boiling with out cooling then you "killed" the enzymes. if you wa...

a bit much on the corn,,but it should have worked . what was the malt? how much malt to grain? added at what temperature? I malted my own corn. Recipe called for 1 cup malt per gallon water/2 pounds cracked corn - so for my batch it took 4 cups malt (4 gallons water, 8 pounds cracked corn, 2 pounds...

need more information but most use 1 1/2 -2 lb per gallon of water.but it makes a difference on the grain your using. I am using corn, 2 lbs cracked corn to 1 gallon of water. I quadrupled everything to make a large batch for my 5 gallon still. So I used 4 gallons of water to 8 pounds of cracked co...

OK, I'm confused. I made my first mash and I am concerned that the water content is way off. I followed the recipe from The Home Distillers handbook exactly and am about to pitch my yeast - but the mash has no water content what so ever. It is like a paste. Is that correct? What should the water con...

Thanks Guys - this has been helpful and what I have been looking for.

Hello from Maine. As a Maine Guide I have been sampling moonshine for years from my clients and now is the time to make it myself. I have my assembled Clawhammer still and am now ready for my first mash. My questions that I have not been able to get answered via all the information I have read: -- Y...