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.

If the sugar concentration level of the must becomes too high at any given point--either at the beginning or during the fermentation--it starts to have an inhibiting effect on the yeast's ability to produce alcohol.

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.

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 best way is to begin taking regular samples of your wort, and testing the specific gravity. Once the gravity stays the same for more than a day or two, it's done. (You don't need to take samples during the busy primary fermentation…just start doing it once things start slowing down.)

Re: How do I know when my corn mash is ready to run

If the hydrometer reads 0, taste it. Is it sour or sweet? The grain bed will continue to bubble up CO2 as it settles and the wash clears. If it's sour and reading 0, it's done fermenting.

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.

For the instant gratification seekers in the crowd, here's the short answer: A 1 gallon run will yield 3-6 cups of alcohol. A 5 gallon run will yield 1-2 gallons of alcohol. A 8 gallon run will yield 1.5-3 gallons of alcohol.

Should you stir sugar mash while fermenting? ›

When we reach our desired temperature, we add our yeast, give our mixture a quick stir, and let it sit for 3-5 days. During this resting process, the yeast will do its thing by eating the sugars from the mash and create alcohol. Once we've fermented to the desired level we are targeting, we distill.

Alcohol is a byproduct of the fermentation process, which takes place when the yeast converts the sugars derived from the grain. Knowing that, you can increase the alcohol by volume (ABV) by increasing the size of the grain bill or increasing the amount of malt extract used.

An average five gallon batch grain bill (total amount of grain to be used) with pre-boil gravity of 1.035 will call for ten pounds of grain.

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.