Cracked corn washes

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Cracked corn washes

Postby Pete8686 » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:40 pm

Hey guys, scored a massive bag of cracked corn today. Thinking of trying a sugarhead out. Does anyone have any good recipes they could please share involving CC for a beginner? Im thinking of putting on a few washes, straight corn shine sugarhead (is it a nice whiskey oaked?) , maybe a macwhiskey with cc, ujsm (never done generations but ill give it a crack). Maybe Cc with some malted grain. Any help or advice would be much appreciated
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby Zak Griffin » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:47 pm

You might be able to try a BWKO - Click Me! :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I think a couple of guys around here have dabbled with it? 8-}
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby Pete8686 » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:54 pm

Haha :handgestures-thumbupleft: Ive never actually read the bwko recipe properly but seems simple enough. Do generations infect easily? Gotta learn somehow I suppose
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby Zak Griffin » Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:16 pm

No problems with infections mate, just take the same precautions as you would with any wash :D
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby Westoz » Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:28 pm

I'm a similar situation having just bought a big bag of cracked corn. No expert, but I will give you a rundown of my first cracked corn mash, which in the interests of time I didn't muck about with.

Process I followed was:
- 10kg of cracked corn mashed in 27-28l of 80c water in a cooler
- 2 kg of pale ale malt then added when down to 65c and a bit of citric acid
- left for best part of 48 hours
- first runnings came out at ~1.038 gravity
- sparged with ~10l of 80c water
- ended up with about 24l of 1.025 gravity wash
- added 4kg of Coles brand sugar
- wash went over 1.06 but that was the limit of the scale so not sure of the final figure
- tasted good, very sweet and corny
- added bread yeast and fermentation is underway.

With more time and with the benefit of hindsight I would have crushed the corn and boiled it for an hour to get a higher conversion. If I get my act together I will get some enzymes too.
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby Venture Rider » Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:43 am

UJSSM is the way to go.
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby OzKev » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:52 am

Westoz wrote:I'm a similar situation having just bought a big bag of cracked corn. No expert, but I will give you a rundown of my first cracked corn mash, which in the interests of time I didn't muck about with.

Process I followed was:
- 10kg of cracked corn mashed in 27-28l of 80c water in a cooler
- 2 kg of pale ale malt then added when down to 65c and a bit of citric acid
- left for best part of 48 hours
- first runnings came out at ~1.038 gravity
- sparged with ~10l of 80c water
- ended up with about 24l of 1.025 gravity wash
- added 4kg of Coles brand sugar
- wash went over 1.06 but that was the limit of the scale so not sure of the final figure
- tasted good, very sweet and corny
- added bread yeast and fermentation is underway.

With more time and with the benefit of hindsight I would have crushed the corn and boiled it for an hour to get a higher conversion. If I get my act together I will get some enzymes too.


It would had put it up to 1.089, bit too high for me. Also use a decent yeast it will help a lot.


Actually something is not adding up, just 2kg of pale ale malt, allowing 75% eff should give you 1.021 OG, so basically you go no conversion of the corn.
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby Westoz » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:57 am

Thanks for that.
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Re: Cracked corn washes

Postby Westoz » Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:54 am

Actually, typo on the final volume. Should have been 26l, which on the malt alone should have given 1.017, so corn boosted it up a little bit, by my calcs the equivalent of about another kilo of malt. Hopefully that's enough for some flavours to come through. Wasn't expecting too much from the corn, was just trying to get a wash underway fast this time around for the new still which has finally arrived.
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