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How to Make Moonshine - Corn Whiskey Recipe

May 01, 2020
Hi, I'm Kyle calling Hammer Supply, manufacturers of stainless steel and copper stills and brewing kits. In this video, I'm going to show you how to

make

a

corn

whiskey

mash. You will need eight and a half pounds of flaked

corn

. pounds of crushed malted barley and a brewing system or a large pot, we will use claw hammers, a 10 and a half gallon digital electric brewing system and the first step is to add six and a half gallons of water to your kettle and heat it to 165 degrees once the corn is added, turn off the heat and stir it.
how to make moonshine   corn whiskey recipe
At this point we'll just let the corn sit at a higher temperature to allow it to break down a bit after this happens and it can cool down a bit. We will add the barley. You will notice that within a few minutes the corn becomes extremely thick and somewhat unmanageable after the mash is complete and the starches have converted to sugar, this liquid will actually thin out a bit while the corn is sitting. I'm going to go ahead and connect the hoses to my Brew system. Our system has the ability to add a pump that will allow us to recirculate the liquid over the grain bed and I will do that for this match early. we can move on, you need to let the corn cool to 148 degrees, okay, the alarm is going off, it's down to 148 degrees, it's time to add the small to the barley, the first thing I'm going to do is turn off the pump, lift this up near my ball valve I'm going to give it a quick stir at this point, it's extremely thick, it's almost a solid mass of corn, you could probably put a little salt on it and eat it like grits, yeah definitely, so I'll add my malted barley. here The barley needs to be crushed and malted for this

recipe

and it's just on top.
how to make moonshine   corn whiskey recipe

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I'm not even going to bother stirring it. One thing I'll do is set the temperature on my controller to 148 degrees, so now keep 148 for the duration of this mash, open my ball valve and turn the pump back on, let this sit and recirculate for 60 minutes, you'll definitely need stir while mashing. I would recommend hitting it once every 10 minutes for the 60 minutes. Puree, you will know the puree is working in about 15-20 minutes when the puree thins out and becomes less viscous. Ok, our 60 minute mash is complete and as you can see, the consistency of this mash has changed dramatically since we started.
how to make moonshine   corn whiskey recipe
It's very easy to work with now, that's how you can tell that the Burley malt has done its job and converted all the starches in the grain and corn into sugar. One thing I would suggest is scraping the grain from the inside of the basket. so it drains better in the next step, okay, let's turn off the heating. I'm going to ask a friend for help. We're going to drain the liquid from this basket, so I'm going to lift it up. We'll put some clips in and then let this sit and drain well so the grain has drained.
how to make moonshine   corn whiskey recipe
I'm going to take it out as you can see, we ended up with about five and three quarts of liquid after the transfer. and the fermentation will slow down to about five gallons, which would be perfect for when a claw hammers five gallons. Now we have to

make

a decision: you can chill this and add cheese now or you can increase it to 170ish. To give it a gentle pasteurization, you can even go up to 212 if you want, boil it quickly, and then cool it back down to yeast pitching temperature. I'm guessing a lot of people watching this video don't have dsps, they're not going to drink this, they're just going to make fuel and put it in their lawn mower, in which case we don't need to heat it to 170 or 212.
We can just cool it down directly. from here to 70 degrees, which is the yeast pitching temperature, add some yeast and move on, and that's what I'm going to do now, so what I'm doing now is hook up a plate heat exchanger flat so we can cool this down. Go down and put it in for a minute. Okay, this is a pretty simple system. We have hot work coming out of the bottom of the reboiler and circulating through the pump through a flat plate heat exchanger back to the reboiler. I'm going to go ahead and get the pump circulating.
I'm going to go ahead and run the water through my cooler here and we'll get cooling. Thank you. My line is disconnecting here, so I'm going to go ahead and turn this off. Turn off the water, okay, I'm just going to put this hose in my fermentation bucket, turn the pump back on and I'm going to transfer everything to the bucket. I disinfected this, okay, two more steps and then we're done. Let's take a sample of the fermenter word here. I'm going to try a little too, oh yes, it's very good, very sweet, which is what we want.
It looks like we're at around seven and a half percent if you're making distilled spirits for consumption, then you'll probably want them to be in the eight to ten percent range. If you're making fuel alcohol, you'll want the alcohol by volume to be as high as possible, which will be in the 18 to 20 percent range if you want to increase the alcohol content, uh, you could just add granulated sugar which will increase the potential alcohol. I think what we'll probably do is just put an alcohol percentage increase chart in our in the article we wrote for this last step we're going to add some distillers yeast, we're using White Star NGS nutri-corn craft distillers yeast. grain Spirit, this seems to be a lot more than we need for five gallons, so what am I going to do?
What I do is I just sprinkle a little bit on top here and cross my fingers and hope it works well, it was actually a little more than I usually use. You'll really want to sprinkle a very thin layer of the top, which I will do. What I do now is I put a lid and an airlock on this thing, give me a second man, okay, I've got a lid here, then I'm going to aerate it by just shaking the bucket here. I need to do this for about 60 seconds and then I'll add an airlock with a disinfectant solution.
We'll let this sit for a week once it's ready, throw it into a still and run it through the still and you will have distilled alcohol with respect to the legality of distillation under federal law. rules and regulations Personal stills of any size may be owned without the necessary permits, as long as the stills are not used or intended to produce alcohol. Stills can be legally used to produce fuel alcohol and distilled spirits, as long as the owners own either. a combustible alcohol or distilled spirits permit. Combustible alcohol permits are easy to obtain and available online.
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