#Scar stock crack forum plus

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How was the crack on the corn? If it was a big heavy crack, say 2 to 3 pieces per kernel it takes a lot of cooking time to render out the starch, plus you need more water to cook your corn in. Thank goodness you added the liquid enzymes. Just a quick observation, you have a 12 pound grain bill with only 2 pounds of malted grain and 1 pound of that is rye which doesn't have a very high diasataic power for conversion. The smaller grain bill would also be easier to separate from the finished wash for distilling, I hope I think those ratios would be small enough to leave in the fermenter. I am considering using less grain so that I can just leave all the grain in the fermenter. I will let it go for 1 to 2 weeks hoping for a finished SG of 0.99 for 8% to 8.5% ABV washĭamn! This is way to much work The main thing that I did not enjoy was separating the grains from the water. I added sugar to the 'all grain' but I couldn't see going through all that work for 1.02 SG and 0.99 FG for 3.8% ABV wash which means another 4 hour distill for. started and pitched the yeast (bakers yeast and some red star active dry yeast) I added the sugar to get my starting Specific Gravity up to 1.056Ħ. of sugar plus 1 scoop of corn from the mash I add 3 to 3.5 gallons of warm water and add 6 lbs. I have a 6 gallon still so 6 to 6.5 gallon finished wash will net me around 5 to 5.5 gallons clean wash in my stillĥ. I have a 7 gallon fermenting bucket so I need to add water so that I can have 5 to 6 gallons of finished wash to distill After manually separating the grain from the water Damn this is messy and a lot of work! No fun at all! I am working to hardģ. I got my strainer out and started dipping out the grain, trying to squeeze all the water out that I could. Hmm? I have a boat load of grain in my stock pot? I need to separate the grains from all that sweet nectar. Great! All available starch has been converted to sugar. I turn off the stove and put a lid (cookie sheet) over the stock pot and go to bed.ġ. about 30 minutes to an hour later Iodine test is still blueĪt this point its been approximately 4 hours on the stove (8pm to midnight) and I am tired. add 1/2 teaspoon of gluco amylase (GA-100) add lemon juice to lower PH to 4.0/4.5 ishĦ. I let it run for about an hour and 30 minutesĥ. Turned heat (gas stove) to lowest setting Iodine test is blue, still has starch in itĤ. 30 minutes later mixture is not as thick Now I have 17 quarts of water total (4.25 gallons) I added 4 quarts of boiling water to keep temps up longer. Planned to cook for and hour but the corn became very think and started to scorch a little so I turned off the heat. PH of 6 is recommended for alpha amylase (BA-100) enzyme and temp of 132F to 166F added a pinch of baking soda and water tested at 6 PH (perfect). Check water at boiling expecting PH to be lower but it was 8.

Started boiling 13 quarts of water (3.25 gallons)Ģ. malted rye (malted grains bought and milled at a local store)ġ. I have done the sugar washes with success. First of all I am a novice so take anything I say with a grain of salt.