Yeast and Amylase Enzyme

[M_Wag13]

I am doing a 40 gallon wash with 50 lb of corn and 50lb of sugar, which would be the best yeast and how much should I use. Also I have read to use Amylase Enzyme to help with the fermenting. Any suggestions or information about Amylase Enzyme.

[Vicknair57]

I believe what you are doing is a sugarhead mash not a wash. Amylase is ok but not necessary, you have a bunch of perfectly good enzymes in the corn you are adding anyways. This is a huge volume, are you using 33 or 55 gallon food grade HDPE barrels?

[M_Wag13]

I'm using a 55 gallon food safe plastic barrel.

[Vicknair57]

Nice well see what you can get without the enzymes, from my understanding it is not necessary with sugarheads because the main source of fermentables is the sugar, the corn is mainly for flavor. If you are refermenting on top of the same corn I believe it does eventually convert fully, thats why in UJSSM you scoop off the spent corn that floats and add back fresh corn. I guess you should look at the tried and true recipes, I really recommend UJSSM, sounds like you are starting off pretty much the same, just scaled up.