My first recipe: The Mixed Batch

[Bumblingblockhead]

I wanted to share this, since it turned out so good.. This is the first recipe I made up. Only my third run ever, so go easy on me! we'll call it The Mixed Batch.
It was 10 gallons water, 28 pounds raw sugar, 6.5 pounds canned corn, 4 pounds wheatgerm, and one 12-16 ounce jar barleymalt extract. Here's how it went:
Rinse corn, and blend in blender with some water, and then dump this into 5-10 gallon stockpot. Fill pot to 5 gallons total, add wheatgerm, and bring to a boil. Turn it down to a good simmer for an hour and a half, stirring now and then. Turn off heat, dump in barleymalt extract and sugar, and stir well until all sugar is dissolved. Get 2 food-grade 6.5 gallon buckets, and fill each one with 2.5 gallons of cold water, then top them off with the hot mash. Let cool to proper temperature, and stir in one packet of still spirits turbo classic in each bucket. This stuff goes off like hell, watch your airlocks! I let it go for 5 days, but was done in 3 i believe. Skim, rack, and distill. Next time no turbo, and no canned corn. We'll see what happens.
This is the one that got me 2 gallons of 140 proof from 1 run, from a 8-9 gallon charge. Then filtered with sugar maple charcoal, aged with various levels of toasted and charred sugar maple pieces, then aired out 2 days with a coffee filter over the top of the bottle. Then I cut it back to 110 proof and it was great. If you cut it back to 80 proof it was smoother than silk. Enjoy!

[rad14701]

With the turbo yeast you could have left out the corn, wheat germ, and barley malt as there was enough nutrients in the turbo yeast to do the job... A combination of those ingredients with non-turbo yeast, and a lower potential ABV, would also work...

[Bumblingblockhead]

Rad, I threw all that crap in there to make it taste better. Not sure how much it helped, haven't compared it to a straight raw sugar run. I'm stepping it up a notch this week in the ingredients department. No more turbos either for a minute. Now that I've seen how much I can squeeze out, I'm gonna go back to Lalvin EC-1118.

[Bumblingblockhead]

Oh, and it tasted like deathwish wheatgerm, but a little different.