Sweet Corn is a Lie.

[MichiganCornhusker]

Sweet corn is a lot of water. Looking back through my notes, I think about 14 pounds of sweet corn per gallon will put you in the range of 1.060 SG.

I found a good way to get a Carmel corn sweetness is to use Shadylane’s idea to cook some fresh wet corn malt in the oven at higher temps than what you would use for just drying the corn. I have a thread on here somewhere about doing that at a couple different temps, making a “toasted” and a “roasted” version. Both have a strong Carmel corn sweetness.

Shady link: https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55851

[Zeotropic]

Ha, I actually feel a little bit bad about the title of this thread now that the fermentation is under way and smelling/tasting so dang good.
Sweet corn isn't a lie, it is what it is. I'll be going back to my tried and true dried field corn when it comes time to (hopefully someday) fill a 5 gallon barrel, but I'm excited to see how this batch turns out.

I probably missed your post somewhere else about the final product but how was it?
Any tasting notes?

[MichiganCornhusker]

I probably missed your post somewhere else about the final product but how was it?
Any tasting notes?

Unfortunately, I’ll never know.
I think I labeled the bottles “honey” or maybe “sweet” for sweet corn, and then later got them mixed up with either Honey Bear Bourbon, or some stuff I made from sweet potatoes.

Either way, at some point last year I poured all of my brown spirits together with the intention of the-running all of it to make one master whiskey. But, when I mixed everything together the sum was greater than all of the parts! So I wound up just re-bottling all of it.

I like to think the sweet corn is in there somewhere, contributing to the overall delicious blend.

We’ll have to rely on Windy to let us know how this turns out.

[Windy City]

Just picked up 300 pounds of bulk frozen sweet corn

[Windy City]

[SmokyMtn]

Did you have a lie thought up for the cashier?

Mercy that's a heap of corn

[Zeotropic]

I probably missed your post somewhere else about the final product but how was it?
Any tasting notes?

Unfortunately, I’ll never know.
I think I labeled the bottles “honey” or maybe “sweet” for sweet corn, and then later got them mixed up with either Honey Bear Bourbon, or some stuff I made from sweet potatoes.

Either way, at some point last year I poured all of my brown spirits together with the intention of the-running all of it to make one master whiskey. But, when I mixed everything together the sum was greater than all of the parts! So I wound up just re-bottling all of it.

I like to think the sweet corn is in there somewhere, contributing to the overall delicious blend.

We’ll have to rely on Windy to let us know how this turns out.

I am sure it is good. My blends are the best. It is funny how several mediocre whiskeys put together are often great.