Malted corn?

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Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Fri Nov 24, 2017 4:27 pm

If corn is malted do you still have to do a cereal mash?
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby Lowie » Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:42 pm

How do you malt corn Bluc? have you been sniffing something?
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:55 pm

Lowie wrote:How do you malt corn Bluc? have you been sniffing something?

Same way you malt anything else. You sprout it. Seriously :oops:
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby Lowie » Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:58 pm

bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:How do you malt corn Bluc? have you been sniffing something?

Same way you malt anything else. You sprout it. Seriously :oops:


why would you do that mate?
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby warramungas » Sat Nov 25, 2017 2:15 am

Love to be able to buy corn malt like beer malt. Save a lot of naffing around with making bourbon.

If you malt it properly it has enough energy to convert itself but from memory not much else. Might need to check that one.
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby wynnum1 » Sat Nov 25, 2017 5:53 am

Yes do have to mash i sprouted the corn in a bag dipping into water and hang to dry a couple of times a day the corn can be soaked to start out.
Only did a small quantity so you need to do a large amount to get a return for effort.
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:28 am

Lowie wrote:
bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:How do you malt corn Bluc? have you been sniffing something?

Same way you malt anything else. You sprout it. Seriously :oops:


why would you do that mate?

To create enzymes for all grain is one reason. I thought once malted it may not need to be cooked...
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:37 am

Asked the same thing over on hd and was told heating to gelatinize will kill the enzyme so just fine grind and mash in. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby wynnum1 » Sat Nov 25, 2017 8:17 am

If you can dry out after it sprouts can then kiln it seems that when grain is dry the enzymes are less vulnerable to heat .
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby Sugardaddy » Sat Nov 25, 2017 1:48 pm

bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:
bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:How do you malt corn Bluc? have you been sniffing something?

Same way you malt anything else. You sprout it. Seriously :oops:


why would you do that mate?

To create enzymes for all grain is one reason. I thought once malted it may not need to be cooked...


Lowie is a beer brewing master and those type of fellas generally take to all grain like a duck to water, he would definitely know if it needs to be cooked. Some folk are just modest here on the forums ;-)
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Sat Nov 25, 2017 2:05 pm

Sugardaddy wrote:
bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:
bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:How do you malt corn Bluc? have you been sniffing something?

Same way you malt anything else. You sprout it. Seriously :oops:


why would you do that mate?

To create enzymes for all grain is one reason. I thought once malted it may not need to be cooked...


Lowie is a beer brewing master and those type of fellas generally take to all grain like a duck to water, he would definitely know if it needs to be cooked. Some folk are just modest here on the forums ;-)


? Re reading My response comes over a bit rude. Not my intention :handgestures-thumbupleft: but then again asking if I had been sniffing something can be a bit rude also. I would think a beer brewing master/ distiller would know all about malted corn
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby Sugardaddy » Sat Nov 25, 2017 2:09 pm

bluc wrote:
Sugardaddy wrote:
bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:
bluc wrote:
Lowie wrote:How do you malt corn Bluc? have you been sniffing something?

Same way you malt anything else. You sprout it. Seriously :oops:


why would you do that mate?

To create enzymes for all grain is one reason. I thought once malted it may not need to be cooked...


Lowie is a beer brewing master and those type of fellas generally take to all grain like a duck to water, he would definitely know if it needs to be cooked. Some folk are just modest here on the forums ;-)


? Re reading My response comes over a bit rude. Not my intention :handgestures-thumbupleft: but then again asking if I had been sniffing something can be a bit rude also. I would think a beer brewing master/ distiller would know all about malted corn


Things can be Perceived and taken wrong in text, I don’t think you’re being rude at all mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Sat Nov 25, 2017 2:11 pm

:handgestures-thumbupleft: all good
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bayshine » Sat Nov 25, 2017 10:40 pm

I believe you can buy malted corn as cane toad got some a few years back to do a recipe of mountain moonshiners :-B
I would love to get a hold of some to do some AG corn whiskey :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby Sugardaddy » Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:26 pm

bayshine wrote:I believe you can buy malted corn as cane toad got some a few years back to do a recipe of mountain moonshiners :-B
I would love to get a hold of some to do some AG corn whiskey :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Yer you can and it’s bloody expensive, was dearer than Rye malt for some reason.
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:35 pm

Who sells it? Beer grain suppliers or stock feed?
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby EziTasting » Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:14 pm

Well, ... on “Moonshiners” the TV series, they just grabbed a bag ‘o corn and chucked it into the fresh mountain river; Yaknow, in a white like spot... :D

Too bad I can’t convey that southern drawl...

Is it hard to Malt?
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby bluc » Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:46 pm

Lol if you know what your doing(many old timers do) then yes you can litterally can throw a sack full of corn in the river and have it sprout.. I am more interested in a straight comparison. Raw corn cooked to gloop then mashed versus malted corn ground then mashed without cooking.(not sure whats worse hours cooking corn stirring etc, or malting it) :D from what I read biggest diff between malting corn and barley the rootlet has to be lot longer on corn..half inch vs length of grain wirh barley..
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby Sugardaddy » Mon Nov 27, 2017 5:44 am

bluc wrote:Who sells it? Beer grain suppliers or stock feed?

Grain supplies and one HBS I know of. HBS was very expensive in 6 kg bags I think :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Malted corn?

Postby The Stig » Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:41 am

Sugardaddy wrote:Grain supplies and one HBS I know of. HBS was very expensive in 6 kg bags I think :handgestures-thumbupleft:


Care to tell us where this HBS shop is copperhead? You idiot
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