Looking to do a all corn mash, a little advice

[Laxx]

As of late i've seen a lot of post about corn mashes, and i've decided I would like to make a 5 gallons mash all cracked corn. But my question is how many #'s of cracked corn am I going to have to use? I am shooting for a abv of about 12% - 14% if possible. I was just curious on how much corn this is going to take. I haven't seen post on how many #'s it will take. So is the taste good? That is one reason I want to try an all corn mash is alot of people say that the taste is great.

[Dnderhead]

all cracked corn????? not posable,,12-14%? very hard to do..

[Laxx]

Alright then what will be a reasonable abv for all cracked corn mash?

[Dnderhead]

6-8% if to much corn is used it will be so thick that it cant be stirred..
as stated you cant use all cracked corn..you need enzymes from some where.

[rtalbigr]

Using just cracked corn you're gonna need some alpha amalyase enzyme for conversion to sugars. You can use 2 lb/gal but it's gonna get really thick and hard to stir and scorching can be a real problem, so ya really gotta stay on top of it. Your yields will be on the low side, 5-6%abv so to get any volume it will take LOTS of corn. When I do just corn like this I generally add 3 lbs sugar (inverted)/5 gal (with 8 lbs cracked corn) just to get the yield up. You do get a nice corn likker and it's not too expensive.

Big R