Home Distiller

Apologies to the forum if this has been asked and answered...did a quick (emphasis quick) search and did not see the answer.

I'm a reformed homebrewer...and I never made the jump to mashing, sacrificing a few bucks for the convenience of malt extracts. Stumbled across the whiskey recipe on homedistiller.org that uses malt extract, made it...and noticed that it foamed like a motorscooter when I distilled it, plus it was a VERY slow collection rate.

Any special considerations / techniques for distilling a malt extract wash? Anyone else as lazy as me and not want to deal with mash?

Current working recipe is shooting for about 18% ABV fermented out - heat 10 pounds liquid malt extract, 10 pounds raw sugar with water until well dissolved, 5 teaspoons of yeast nutrient and top off to about 5.5 gallons with water, chill and pitch EC 118 yeast.

Thanks in advance-

Booger

I did one batch with malt extract and was disappointed. I used bakers yeast and it really effected the flavor. Used 5 lbs malt, 10 lps sugar and 5 gal water and fermentation went just fine. My boiler is a 15 gal keg so foaming wasn't a problem.

AkCoyote

You also have the option of doin' SMOP mashes if ya don't like doin' traditional mashes.

SMOP? What's that?

booger wrote:

You also have the option of doin' SMOP mashes if ya don't like doin' traditional mashes.

SMOP? What's that?

SMOP=seething mass of porrage

10 lb cornflakes cereal (Oatmeal is better)
fill up to 5 gallons with boiling water (could add 5 lbs sugar)
Add amylase and beano
let cool very slowly to 70-75*F
throw your yeast on top, and stirr it into the very top of the wash SLOWLY
stir the verry top layer SLOWLY every day
after a week or 2 strain it, and run it.

the one thing to be very careful with when using extract is the lack of solids in the beer - which means a large amount of foam during fermentation.

Any ideas on what kind of an original gravity you get from the SMOP recipe? And what kind of flavor do you pick up from it?

what would you get if distilled beer, i know it has a very low alcohol content, but i woul like to know what would be the taste of it

what would you get if distilled beer

All depends on the beer. I've never tried it, but I've heard that distilling something with hops in it is a bad thing - gives you a really funky flavor. But, a totally unhopped beer...i.e., all malt, is a whiskey wash.