Sour Mash Recipe By Southern Boy Stills

This 5 minute video walks you through the entire process of making a sour mash. Starting with dry ingredients like cracked corn and sugar, Kelly walks you through desired water amounts, temperature and set time for your mash. In the second segment she talks to you about alcohol % by volume, when to add more water and yeast. Finally this short but detailed video ends with information on fermentation time and what to expect.

[chrisgeo]

This is not a “sour mash” to make a “sour mash” requires active bacteria from a previous mash either the discarded grains or left over liquid from the still.
As for the “potential” abv each pound of sugar in a gallon of water will yield around 36 gravity points there is no sugar being taken from the corn so it is not a corn mash it is a sugar wash with corn as “flavoring”
I applaud anyone that is trying to promote the craft but I don’t think I would use this recipe.

[jakiskrackis]

what makes this a sour mash? I was under the impression that you had to put some of the leftover stuff from the previous distillation into the mash to make it "sour"... any help will be appreciated

[jimdawn]

have to add  amylase, cook at 150 deg for about a hour

[InahaFrost]

sour mash backset for healthy bacterial is just a corn flavoured sugar wash...without gelatinization...keep up people

[unsane]

Chill people, she said it was similar to uncle Jesse's. That version doesn't convert the starch in the corn.

[brewliteratehomebrewingsup]

You have to cook the corn to Gelatinize it before you cool it to 150 Degrees, and add Amylase Enzymes to convert the Starch to Sugar and leave for at Least 1 hour. then you can cool to around 80 Degrees and add the Yeast.

[wombatau]

Any other brewer cringe when the entire hydrometer tube was submerged?

[kevinhoban]

Do you have a video of part 2 to this sour-mash or a part 2 to the street feed

[crownmediaservice]

ok, I'm a bit confused, I use a refractometer to gauge Brix and Gravity, and a hydrometer to measure my still output....are you saying you have a hydrometer reading of 15% ABV before you even add the yeast???

[BeerWineandShine]

Question. 1-lb of sugar in 1 gallon of water is about 1.034, somewhere around 4-5% abv. How did you get 15% abv out of just under 1.5 lbs/gal????

[shellymay]

What kind of cracked corn do you use? Can you use the bird feed kind?

[stevenfry]

Are you using tap water, or distilled water?

[VTiredIron]

My point (and maybe I should have clarified this) is that nowhere in the video did she mention anything relating to the sour mash process. The corn that she added to the sugar water will do nothing for the flavor or quality of the final product. I've been doing this for a long time and went through a LOT of recipes before I landed on one that I was satisfied with. Yes this will make alcohol. Yes you can call it moonshine and you can use the backset from this to make a REAL sour mash. But if you're going to call it a sour mash recipe, at least include something about the sour mash process. There are a LOT of really good videos on here that explain the best way to make a really good product. Pintoshine has some great videos. PontiusPilate and WCEMichael also have some good vids about getting started. They've helped me considerably. My advice, if you're serious about making potable alcohol at home, is to do your research. Read, watch vids and read some more. Visit distilleries. Join forums. Etc. otherwise you'll end up just making barely palatable paint thinner.

[musicmike]

No amylase to break down the corn into sugar?

[alyx]

Was the corn malted and cracked or just cracked?

[brawyn]

i really want to try making this, can i use corn meal instead of the cracked corn? i am going to buy a pressure cooker and make myself a still, lots of videos on here show how to do that at home, thanks

[danroberts]

NOT a sour Mash....NOT how you make a mash at all. You need to release the starch from the corn at various stages and use Alpha Amalayze (sp?) to convert the starch to sugar. Gee so much wrong from both description and video. (It's basically corn flavored sugar wash). Might be a sour mash if you run it and let the mash sour then add corn and do it right!

[caseykelso]

STOP!!! you never brought it up to temp and then add 6row barley to covert cornstarch into fermentable sugar, therfore your method sucks !!!corn does NOTHING for the sugar shine your making and PRETENDING to add some corn flavor to it. waste of money and diverting from true CORN shine!!!! again STOP DELETE the vid and DO IT RIGHT

[jaymuzquiz]

I put antifreeze in mine to give it that kick! And it makes it taste better.

[tracewithaview]

I haven't even done this yet but just from what I've learned elsewhere...this is wrong. One needs amylase or malted barley to convert the starches. Also, this isn't "sour mash", just a sugar wash.