To make this mash, you’ll need 10 lbs of grain (I prefer corn, but you can use rye or wheat), 5 gallons of water, 1 package of yeast, and 1 cup of sugar. There are a few things you need to know before we get started.
To make this mash, you’ll need 10 lbs of grain (I prefer corn, but you can use rye or wheat), 5 gallons of water, 1 package of yeast, and 1 cup of sugar. There are a few things you need to know before we get started. First, this is a 5-gallon moonshine mash recipe, which means it will produce approximately 5 gallons of moonshine.
Made sweet feed mash using 5 pounds sweet feed, 5 pounds sugar,1 pack champagne yeast, and 5 gallons of distilled water. When I ran it, after the head, it only produced 4 pints and the tail. Ran it at about 190 degrees. If someone could tell me what I am doing wrong to produce so little, I would appreciate it.
This resulted in a starting gravity of about 1.058, which produced a wash with a starting alcohol of 7.5%. Once we added the sugar, we applied high heat to the pot and slowly heated the mash to to 70F. The initial tap water temp was somewhere in the neighborhood of 55 degrees, so this did not take too long.