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Has any one heard of corn starch being used instead of corn, to make a wash. A friend told me that he had heard of it being done, with just Corn starch, water, sugar, & regular bakers yeast. Can anyone let me know if this will work, before spend a lot of time for nothing Thanks.
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Bite the bullet and buy some corn and do the mash right. I think the finished product is only as good as the original mash. I currently have corn maize and malt fermenting cost a little more to do but the results are worth the price.
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It could be done though... It would require heating water and mixing starch into it,allowing it to cool and then adding the enzyme to convert the starch to sugars. Possibly using a combination of 'Beano' and malt. I have not personally tried this but I think that the science behind this recipe is essentially correct. However, the congeners would be noticeably different in their makeup and the resulting alcohol might therefore taste similar to a stripped-alcohol and lack body, bouquet and a palatable taste. That's my guestimation from available data.
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You can put corn starch in a mash,with enzymes and it will convert,but it would be much cheaper to just use corn.I have used a pound of corn starch in a beer mash before,and it gave the beer a different flavor{corn},but flaked maize worked better.Just use cracked corn,and malted barley.I just bought a 50 pound bag of cracked corn for $6.79,and its real clean.Its for chickens,and made by cargill.
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I haven't tried corn starch but corn sugar does a pretty good job for making a good whiskey or bourbon base.
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