How do you ferment corn?!
How do you ferment corn?
Answers:
Fermentation is the process of yeast turning sugar into alcohol.
From: http://home.howstuffworks.com/moonshine2...
The corn is ground into meal. Today, some moonshiners use commercial hog feed because it's mostly made of corn and is easy to buy without attracting a lot of attention.
The corn meal is soaked in hot water in the still. Sometimes sugar is added (or even used instead of grain), but traditional moonshiners added malt to convert the starch in the corn meal into sugar. Then the yeast is put in, which starts the fermentation process. (See How Beer Works for details on the fermentation process.) This mixture, called mash, is stirred thoroughly and heated for a set amount of time in the still. The still and all the metal piping used are made of copper, which conducts heat well and doesn't leech into the alcohol.
i dont know how to ferment corn, but i drink bourbon, and i know that bourbon is made from fermented corn. if youre trying to make homemade bourbon, trust me, just buy a bottle of the green label Evan Williams. its cheap, tastes excellent, and you will save more money than you will ANY OTHER way..
good luck =)
the best way to do it. You can go to a restaurant supply store or online a place that sells equipment to make beer or wine. You need sodium metabysulfate or yeast to add to it. You need to store it in a warm place and let it ferment for 2 weeks or so.
first soak it in hot but not boling vinegr for ten minutes. if it was already crushed up, put it in water with yeast (follow the directions on the yeast packet) and after a week or so, you should have it fermented. then strain it.