Montana Cuda Corn
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 10:09 pm
After moving up north and acquiring a large garden I looked into some corn and found the Montana Cuda corn, a special breed from an old indian corn high in starch used for cornmeal and celebrations. Planted the entire garden, harvested, dried and finally got around to getting the mill going and ran it twice down to a fine meal. Beautiful corn, purple shell and white meal yielded just about 11 lbs. Have some left over rye to add in so lets do this.
The plan was to slow cook it up to 190 with Seb enzymes, starch test, cool to 150, drop 10lbs of rye, enzymes and let rest overnight in the pre heated water jacketed fermenter set to 78 and pitch some yeast when making coffee.
took 6 hours to bring it up to 190, starch test perfect conversion, add cold water and rye rest for a couple hours, perfect conversion and I have a pot of sweet syrup cooling to pitch temps for the morning.
Pull out the Hydro and pour some filtered wort into the cylinder to test SG..
1.062.. from back yard corn
from a 10 gallon batch this could hit 8% if she finishes below 1.
Wait and see next weekend how she turns out.
The plan was to slow cook it up to 190 with Seb enzymes, starch test, cool to 150, drop 10lbs of rye, enzymes and let rest overnight in the pre heated water jacketed fermenter set to 78 and pitch some yeast when making coffee.
took 6 hours to bring it up to 190, starch test perfect conversion, add cold water and rye rest for a couple hours, perfect conversion and I have a pot of sweet syrup cooling to pitch temps for the morning.
Pull out the Hydro and pour some filtered wort into the cylinder to test SG..
1.062.. from back yard corn
from a 10 gallon batch this could hit 8% if she finishes below 1. Wait and see next weekend how she turns out.