MASH ARCHIVE

TIPS AND TRICKS MEASURING ABV

Posted by Moonshiner Chuck on

Well welcome back. This is the channel that will offer you as much information as we possibly can. But this is not your only source. It's still it and four beards and board, all two excellent channels for you to garner some other tips and tricks and processes and procedures to satisfy your brewing or distilling pleasures.  Now, today we've got what I have today is simply a couple of things that I want to show you and demonstrate. And I'm actually doing a little bit of time lapse photography for you to show you some things that happened. We're...

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BEGINNERS GUIDE IN CORN MASH PART 1

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Welcome. Now this happens all the time. There's really, really no matter how many times I can do this. There's always that misunderstanding about making a corn mash and I just want to share it with you because It's real simple. We've got five pounds of corn here, and I've got about four gallons of water. I've got a little colander.    Now. There are 1000 ways to do what I'm about to do, though this is, in my opinion, the most direct method that works for me, should work for you. But then again, I hear it all the...

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CLEARING YOUR MASH - TIPS AND DEMONSTRATION

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Welcome. We are your humble host and excited to be here with you. As always, our intent is to unlock the mysteries of home distilling, and we're here to help unlock one more. You're going to enjoy this. We're going to talk about clarification. Now that you've made it through the introduction, and our quick title, we want to get right to the meat of what we're going to do today, we're going to talk about clarification because we all know that once we've created a mash or a wash those terms are interchangeable.  You can use them however you...

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AMAZING MASH TECHNIQUES AND THE PROCESS PART 3

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First of all, I was going to use a small pot. I'm just going to fill the large one, I'll just drain out as much as I can. After that, you're gonna raise the grains, raise the green bed up, that's gonna be an amazing thing. How do I know that there are sugars? What's that look like to you? There's a look at our grain bed should pour back in. I'll do it two or three times.   I'll just move on down and do them all the same way. So you can see that I started out with...

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THE AMAZING MASH TECHNIQUES AND PROCESS PART 1

Posted by Moonshiner Chuck on

We're going to talk about mash, we have much to understand but you don't know all of it. Let's work on the things that we can control and the things that make us more successful. I got three pots we got something to come. There is a direct correlation between how high that thing floats your proof and trail hydrometer and what the proof is, so we can get instantaneous, audible because we're trying to develop this. Let's move on because this is just something in progress, I'm still waiting on a couple of little pieces to show up so...

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