Malting corn
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Malting corn
Am trying to malt 50 lbs of corn in a way similer to a way i read on home distiller .Ive takin a 15 gallon plastic barrel and installed a drain at bottem.Then took 1/4 copper tubing and with a hacksaw cut slits every 4 inches for about 4 ft.Rolled into a sprial and placed in bottem of barrel.Layed feed sacks over this to a four or 5 inchd depth.Poured the corn in and filled with water connected airpump to tubing. let Sit in water 24 hrs and drained water. 36 hrs later corn has started sprouting. There is some heat building from germation .Not as bad as when ive malted without using air and it molded on me.Have reached into barrel and turned corn.And filled barrel with water agin and drained. This cooled down grain. Will post and tell how this method turns out .If nothing else ive now got a sparging barrel . lol
I use a pot still.Sometimes with a thumper