Distilling Malt Extract?

[booger]

Apologies to the forum if this has been asked and answered...did a quick (emphasis quick) search and did not see the answer.

I'm a reformed homebrewer...and I never made the jump to mashing, sacrificing a few bucks for the convenience of malt extracts. Stumbled across the whiskey recipe on homedistiller.org that uses malt extract, made it...and noticed that it foamed like a motorscooter when I distilled it, plus it was a VERY slow collection rate.

Any special considerations / techniques for distilling a malt extract wash? Anyone else as lazy as me and not want to deal with mash?

Current working recipe is shooting for about 18% ABV fermented out - heat 10 pounds liquid malt extract, 10 pounds raw sugar with water until well dissolved, 5 teaspoons of yeast nutrient and top off to about 5.5 gallons with water, chill and pitch EC 118 yeast.

Thanks in advance-

Booger

[AkCoyote]

I did one batch with malt extract and was disappointed. I used bakers yeast and it really effected the flavor. Used 5 lbs malt, 10 lps sugar and 5 gal water and fermentation went just fine. My boiler is a 15 gal keg so foaming wasn't a problem.

AkCoyote

[booger]

You also have the option of doin' SMOP mashes if ya don't like doin' traditional mashes.

SMOP? What's that?

[Guest]

You also have the option of doin' SMOP mashes if ya don't like doin' traditional mashes.

SMOP? What's that?

SMOP=seething mass of porrage

10 lb cornflakes cereal (Oatmeal is better)
fill up to 5 gallons with boiling water (could add 5 lbs sugar)
Add amylase and beano
let cool very slowly to 70-75*F
throw your yeast on top, and stirr it into the very top of the wash SLOWLY
stir the verry top layer SLOWLY every day
after a week or 2 strain it, and run it.

[Uncle Jesse]

the one thing to be very careful with when using extract is the lack of solids in the beer - which means a large amount of foam during fermentation.

[booger]

Any ideas on what kind of an original gravity you get from the SMOP recipe? And what kind of flavor do you pick up from it?

[Josesillo]

what would you get if distilled beer, i know it has a very low alcohol content, but i woul like to know what would be the taste of it

[booger]

what would you get if distilled beer

All depends on the beer. I've never tried it, but I've heard that distilling something with hops in it is a bad thing - gives you a really funky flavor. But, a totally unhopped beer...i.e., all malt, is a whiskey wash.