Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Corn lot 2
8kg corn ground finer
Added to 50l boiling water temp now 89c
After 13 hours temp 86c
6kg Malt ground 1.3mm added to corn at 10am
Added 4l 60c water to make mash wetter and bring down temp.
Temp now 64c
12.00pm 20 brix 1.083
12.30 brix stable 20 sg 1.083
Sparge started 12.35pm

1.5hr sparge crap conversion starting gravity 1.026 :( looking more and more like grinding and squeezing is how I will have to do it. Or just stick to sugarheads ~x( :violin:

Sorry to hear that!

Especially when you had such good initial SG!

Yea no idea whats going on very strangle. I think maybe I have a gremlin.....

bluc wrote:Yea no idea whats going on very strangle. I think maybe I have a gremlin.....

I must have the same gremlins! Mine, I call Corn Mash! Buuuuut, I'm giving it one more go; not because I can, but because I have the corn and no chickens to feed it to! :D

Yea I think I will be sticking to all barley whiskey. Hanging to get my rims tube. Just have to buy an enclosure and assemble my craft beer pi controller.
A million projects to get done and $3 to do it with :D :laughing-rolling:

I dont get how I can go from 1.083 to 1.026 unless I sparged to about 150l :angry-banghead:

so your flush with funds! Cashed up and nowhere to invest ... I see 8-}

Well, the only way I get to rub 2 coins together is with the use of a mirror!

But necessity is the mother of all inventions!

:laughing-rolling: 8-}

bluc wrote:I dont get how I can go from 1.083 to 1.026 unless I sparged to about 150l :angry-banghead:

What are you using for the pre sparge reading?

Auto Temp correcting refractometer. It was low 13ish gave mash a good stir and took another reading and it was 20 brix. Waited half hour still 20 brix. Started sparging :handgestures-thumbdown: ...
Going by previous mash, previous grain amounts and previous time frames 20brix was pretty well bang on. Took gravity with hydrometer 1.026. I have another hydrometer will test again tomorow.
Switchex to hydrometer because I put the new wort in on top of previous trub previous alcohol can throw off reading with refractometer?

Yeah refrac no good with alc, do you temp correct with the hydro?

Yea i just put another sample on refractometer and got 8 brix :wtf:

Malt looses it's diastic power with age and humidity, at what rate I don't know but if you've been in and out of the barrel quite a few times and the humidity has gone up it might have effected it... I wouldn't have thought that much though

Yea gotta get in and use it up. But the one few weeks back hit 1.053..

Ezi I doubt it will sparge without rice hulls :twisted:

bluc wrote:Ezi I doubt it will sparge without rice hulls :twisted:

Well it sure as hell gelatinised for me! So the corn is currently "steeping" for want of a better word ... but I'm thinking that the 45L is too much currently as there was a good 100mm water layer above the corn...

I still have heaps of headspace in the Tun so I'll have another look in about 30 mins for another stirring action...

Anyhoo, if it doesn't sparge, I'll just tip it the F@#&k out! :obscene-birdiedoublered: :laughing-rolling:

bluc wrote:Yea I think I will be sticking to all barley whiskey. Hanging to get my rims tube. Just have to buy an enclosure and assemble my craft beer pi controller.
A million projects to get done and $3 to do it with :D :laughing-rolling:

Where the fuck did you get $3 from? You lucky bugger :laughing-rolling:
I'm in the same boat as ezy ATM, except my mirror is scratched to all buggery.

EziTasting wrote:

bluc wrote:Ezi I doubt it will sparge without rice hulls :twisted:

Well it sure as hell gelatinised for me! So the corn is currently "steeping" for want of a better word ... but I'm thinking that the 45L is too much currently as there was a good 100mm water layer above the corn...

I still have heaps of headspace in the Tun so I'll have another look in about 30 mins for another stirring action...

Anyhoo, if it doesn't sparge, I'll just tip it the F@#&k out! :obscene-birdiedoublered: :laughing-rolling:

:laughing-rolling: I always found it absorbed the whole 45l. Did you grind corn finer or just use the cracked as is? :D
Plumby yea its luxury having $3 spare atm :laughing-rolling:

@ bluc - corn has been ground to 1.2mm

Interesting did you run it through a roller mill?