This recipe owes its beginnings to Odin's cornflake whiskey. For 10 gallons of mash, I use 6 lbs. of American 2-row malted barley and 2 boxes of generic cornflakes. I mix the ingredients together as if doing a traditional beer mash and mash for 45 minutes at 150 degrees F. Sparging is tricky, but I use a bucket with 3/32" holes drilled through the bottom and run a 3/8" drill with a paint paddle into the mash to extract what won't go through a traditional lauter tun (some folks would use the mop bucket strainer/paint strainer method, which would work just as well). That makes about 5 gallons of a very sweet wort. From there, add 14 pounds of sugar and boil for one hour, chill it down to around 110, pour into 2 5-gallon buckets and spray cold water into each bucket to fill the remaining space and aerate the wort. Once that's done, pitch a pack of Fleischman's baker's yeast and it will ferment out in about 7 days.
This is then stripped in 2 runs (my still is 35 quarts) and then run with 1/2 gallon of backset from 1 of the stripping runs for a very tasty spirit. It's excellent white (I made 3 jars at 100 proof and they disappeared quickly). The white really has a sweet corny/barley like taste to it. It actually tastes a bit like aged whiskey. The remainder is proofed to 120 and put into quart jars with a handful of Jack Daniels barrel chips for aging. After aging, this stuff is an excellent brown whiskey.
Malted barley & corn flake whiskey
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Malted barley & corn flake whiskey
Lawfish
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Re: Malted barley & corn flake whiskey
Shoot! Wrong title. Corn flake, not corn meal.
Lawfish
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Re: Malted barley & corn flake whiskey
Done.
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Re: Malted barley & corn flake whiskey
I've thought before of doing an easy "bourbon" by mixing the stripping runs from two cornflake batches and one malted barley /wheat /rye to see what I'd end up with.
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Re: Malted barley & corn flake whiskey
You just can't beat good ol' 2-row. Workhorse and flavorful, and this should come out tasting pretty grand with the cornflakes.
Re: Malted barley & corn flake whiskey
Thanks for the edit, Shineon!
Lawfish
Homebrewer turned distiller
Homebrewer turned distiller