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Deer are very sensative animals and any grains that can be fed to them are safe and should work well"

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Is it cracked? if not you will have to do it yourself and its tough. Cracked corn- chicken feed is about $5 to 7 for a 50# bag.

Unless you are planning to malt the corn this would be a better way to go. Even if you malt it, you will still have to crush or break it.
Let us know your fmethod and we can help further."

"I had a friend who gave me a bag of deer corn. I talked to the guy at the feed store where it came from. He said it was very clean and should be no problem. I malted it to where the sprouts came out about an inch or so, removed the growths after that. Put it in a heavy freezer bag, smacked it some with a mallet while it was still moist and stuck it in a pot.

Repeated the process for the next two hours until I had enough in the pot and swore I'd never do it again. There wasn't a high % of alcohol when the mash was done fermenting. I went through distilling 5 gallons to end up with about 2 quarts of whiskey after three runs through the EZ Still. Good stuff, but a lot of work.

That was about 10 pounds of corn. I still have 40# more (ugh). My next time I am planning to put a couple pounds of cracked barley in (heating it up like you're supposed to-- 2 hours at 140-150ºF to convert the starch), and seeing how that goes. Still, lots of work.

Question: If you don't malt, how do you convert the starch? Does amalase work? I'm planning on just getting crushed chicken feed corn next time, sounds a LOT easier."

"I'm too new at this to compare what tastes best..but, I got some liquid malt from Whole Foods grocery store. 5 pounds sugar, 5 gal water, 1 can liquid grocery store malt, yeast................GEEZ it is so good. So easy. Soaked with charred wood.
I am now trying to make corn likker using a large box of ground up corn flakes. I hear it is good."

What does "Mascerate" mean to you?

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2 years later. Too late?

I just ran 15 pounds of deer corn through a mill, got a combination of essentially barely cracked corn and then corn meal. I added that to about 9-10 gallons of water (actually 4.5 gallons first and made a ridiculously thick goop, then added 5 more gallons to make a thinner mash. I'm letting that sit overnight and planning on adding 7 pounds of rye and 4 pounds of 6row barley and enough boiling water to bring it up to 150-155. I'll let that sit for 30 minutes, cool it quickly and add 2 packages of whiskey yeast and see what happens. It's my first all grain batch and i may not do this again the same way. This deer corn is not ideal at all."