Home Made Corn Mash Moonshine Recipe | 2024 (2024)

FAQs

How much corn do I need for 5 gallons of mash? ›

For a 5 gallon mash: (201)

7 lbs (3.2kg) cracked corn. 6-8 pieces/kernel is the proper crack. If using bird feed, make sure it is perishable, or in other words is free of preservatives.

Weigh out your grains in a 2 to 1 ratio. For the 10 gallon batch, this will be 6 lbs of corn and 3 lbs of sweet feed. Set aside until the water reaches 160f. Now you can add the grains and reduce heat to maintain 160f for 45 minutes.

After mixing corn, rye and malted barley, and pitching the yeast into the mash, I give the whiskey mash about a week to ferment, or when there is a slow down in the bubbling going on in the fermentation vessel. This is the sign that fermentation has mostly stopped, and has converted all sugar to alcohol.

So for example: A 10 gallon still filled with your wash that is 10% ABV will yield you about 1 gallon of shine. If your ABV is 15% it will be 1.5 gallons. No matter what still you put it in to extract the alcohol out during the distilling process, you can't argue with the math.

Measuring Fermentation - the Easy Way

After pitching yeast, simply check on the mash every 12 hours or so to make sure that sometime during the first 12-48 hours after yeast is added there is movement in the airlock (the airlock should bubble a at least few times a minute).

One of the primary ingredients in a classic moonshine mash is cracked corn—a type of feed corn that has been coarsely ground or broken to expose the starchy insides. However, cracked corn doesn't come ready to be mashed because its starches are not readily accessible for fermentation.

The typical home brewer will be using a range of 1-1.5 quarts of water per pound of grain. Don't stress mash thickness at this time, find a ratio that will work for your equipment. The average ratio is 1.25qts/pound.

Optimal temperature would be about 77 degrees Fahrenheit. At temperatures higher than 77 degrees Fahrenheit, the yeast are going to produce more byproducts, giving your final distillate a slightly funkier flavor. So, as you can see, turbo yeast mashes are very easy and simple to do.

Maintaining a stable mash temperature for so long would be next to impossible for most homebrewers, leading to a fairly dramatic drop that could be posited to not only produce a thinner bodied beer, but increase the risk of lactobacillus growth.

When should my mash start bubbling? ›

Within 24-36 hours, carbon dioxide normally starts bubbling through the airlock, as long as everything is working correctly and if the fermenter is sealed properly. Fermentation can take as little as 3 days if you are using a fast-acting yeast and the temperature is ideal.

12.25 lbs is really pushing it for a 5 gallon mash tun. You can do up to 13, but, A) you are going to be right to the tippy top, and B) if you're batch sparging you may have to sparge twice. I try to keep my grain bills at 11lbs or lower, and really like the way it performs with a 9-10 gallon grain bill.

Subject: RE: Lbs of feed in a 5 gal. bucket? I think a five gallon bucket will hold 32lbs of ddgs,about 42lbs of whole shelled corn.

I have grown corn in containers. It works great. I live in Birmingham,AL and I grew Golden Queen corn in 5 gallon buckets, 9 corn stalks, 1 corn stalk per bucket. I put the buckets next to each in a 3 x 3 matrix for bunching.

That would be 4.5 cups of frozen or canned corn, which sounds like rather a lot, to 200 gr of potatoes, which is about one large potato. Although the corn is pureed, which would make a difference. So I'm going to suggest 3 cups corn, but if you feel that this is too much, or too little, adjust accordingly.