Can you make vodka from flour?!
If so, does the process change, and is it better to use heavier or lighter flours?
Answers: Vodka can be made from grains, but can it be made from the flour made from grains?
If so, does the process change, and is it better to use heavier or lighter flours?
Edit, After further reading, I'm removing some of what I said earlier, since I found out that it is VERY EASY to make mash with flour. I originally thought the fine ground flour would be a problem, but I don't think so.
Technically, yes. Easily, yes. You can make moonshine out of corn meal. Corn meal is just a coarse ground corn flour.
You'd want to boil the the flour for quite a while in a thick mixture with water, to help caramelize the flour. You'll then cool it down and add either brewing enzymes, or malted barley to help convert the starches of the flour to sugar. After an hour or so of that, let it cool down more, and add yeast and let it ferment. Then you just distill the mash. The recipe link below explains how to do it with corn meal.
I mean no.
No, you cannot use flour. The process involves malting and boiling the grains to extract sugars. Flour cannot go through the same process... its molecular makeup has been changed by milling it into flour.
It wouldn't work. You'd simply wind up with a flour-flavored smoothie.
(EDIT)
Quite interesting Axel... to be quite honest, it's appears as though I stand corrected! Cheers!
no