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"What type of corn do I need to use for common corn mashes? And what is the best source of these items locally?
Is deer corn suffucient once seeded and/or ground?
I have only previously done sugar mashes, and can get the rye and other elements, but just thinking of where to get whole (sweet) corn? or feed corn? just need some help what to look for.
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Nevermind, at the time i was a bit confused and buying flaked maize from the brew store. I have since moved to feed stores, and am able to pickup 50lb bags of cracked corn for about 6-8 dollars. This should make plenty of batches, i'm still using flaked maize but will be switching soon.
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did you ever the feed corn? How did it work?
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" Originally Posted by: rwshaved  did you ever the feed corn? How did it work? Do a search on the forum or net for UJSM. Its a no cook, no mash corn whiskey, that reuses some of the corn and yeasts over and over again. Great white or aged on oak. A super easy starter recipe for starting flavored shine. I use the whiskey yeast with ag and it seems to get a bit more alch. and flavor, but other yeasts all work. EC 1118 is good."
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Do you need to use an amylase enzyme (or sprout) the corn first?
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" Originally Posted by: luis Do you need to use an amylase enzyme (or sprout) the corn first? Negative for the UJSM method. It is a simple sugar wash recipe, with corn as a flavor. Works! EC 1118 works well, I prefer whiskey yeast with AG. Can be reused or iterated many times. Search the files for the UJSM method of just ask again. Whoops, Luis, are you asking for an all grain recipe? Or a sweet mash, or what. Got confused on the question. Sorry."
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"I'm sure I'll end up trying it all.
I saw the Uncle Jesse Mash Recipe, it does look easy. Just that I didn't know if corn needed some help turning starches to sugar. I know the homebrew store guy told me that I needed to add an enzyme called amylase to convert corn into something that can be fermented.
I've also seen recipes where you keep corn wet until it sprouts and the natural enzymes convert the starch to sugar also. Looks like others do it by holding the corn mash at 160ºF for a half-hour or so, too."
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" Originally Posted by: RockThis Nevermind, at the time i was a bit confused and buying flaked maize from the brew store. I have since moved to feed stores, and am able to pickup 50lb bags of cracked corn for about 6-8 dollars. This should make plenty of batches, i'm still using flaked maize but will be switching soon. Did my first mash with 10 lbs of cornmeal and 2 lbs of malted barley. Conversion was great producing 8.5 % ABV. Ran and collected 3 quarts of 50%. I want to run 7 more times to collect and ample qty for the spirit run. Problem Cornmeal is difficult to strain, harder to settle. It left light circular burns marks on the inside, bottom of my boiler (PSII) from the settled corn meal. How can I clean this? Want to use cracked corn fom the feed store...but the cracked corn has quite a bit of uncracked corn in it. Is this a problem? If so, will a kitchen blender break it up? Thanks for any help."
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"Ian Smiley's book ""Making Pure Corn Whiskey"" provides a detailed explanation of this method. Traditional Sour Mash Whiskey.
Great book!"
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