Roasted corn for ageing

[bt1]

Got chatting to a real old school dude and coming from me that means he's like ancient...and is.

His fave was a majority corn whisky with malts, double pot stilled, aired for a week etc.

For ageing for immediate consumption they used to use charred whole corn kernels instead of timber. It's sounds cred just enough to warrant a go for a small sub batch to test.

I'll test on 1lt to see how it goes.

Thoughts? I reckon it may go flour~ish was first impression, but hey?


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[droo1966]

any results yet? Would be great if it works.

[bt1]

I've not tasted it yet,

certainly has the right colour and smell.

I'll give it a crack next week~ish

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[bt1]

Howdy,

I wouldn't wash car wheel rims with this shit... f#$k not good... not all things old worldly are good... :puke-huge:

pass me a glass of cat piss mouth rinse will yer

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[Cane Toad]

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: Well it looks like that myth has been put to bed :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[crow]

Busted :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: worth a shot though :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[SBB]

Just looking at the photo BT, and wondering if that is the mouth wash or the experimental booze??
Jokes aside, good on ya for at least trying, without that, we as a group get nowhere :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[droo1966]

Nice colour, shame about the taste.
Stick with nuclear ageing and a fine filter.

[kiwikeg]

I still reckon there is a kernel of truth to the original story.
when a bit of corn ends up sticking to the internal element of the boiler and scorching then tainting the run its not all bad likker once its gained a bit of age. :think:
caramalised sugar has its place in rum- if corn was roasted and right type of corn was used surely something good would come from it????

[crow]

yeah duno bout that burnt grain is pretty awful. Burn some rice or porridge and see if you can eat it :puke-huge:

[kiwikeg]

Far enough point crow, but I really hoped BT1 was onto something here.
I will be doing a classic pure corn ujsm next so I was planning to give to give this theory another visit.
Roasting the corn not scorching I am thinking of the unpopped bits of corn at the bottom of a bag of popcorn. that level of roasting...how bad can it be?

[MacStill]

yeah duno bout that burnt grain is pretty awful. Burn some rice or porridge and see if you can eat it :puke-huge:

I suppose you do this often ?

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