r/firewater • u/North-Bit-7411 • 5d ago

Fresh corn mash

Looking to do a fresh sweet corn mash and was wondering if anyone has just ground up the entire ears of corn (corn and the cob itself) and mashed it instead of just stripping the corn off the ears and grinding it up and throwing the cob away.

Thoughts or suggestions?

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u/ConsiderationOk7699 5d ago

I'm my experience cob is kinda bitter. I went lazy way once ruined whole batch ,worse than scorching. But that was me if you go forward let us know how it goes.

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u/North-Bit-7411 5d ago

I had a suspicion bitterness might be an issue.

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u/AJ_in_SF_Bay 5d ago

I did see a video of someone using a very good amount of fresh corn and the corn "milk" from the stripped cob (but not the cob itself) and putting that into a thumper for a 100% corn whiskey. I forget if they added any other liquid or spirit to the thumper, I watched the video a long time ago.

They said that it created a significant amount of fresh corn flavors that carried over into the final spirit. Seemed interesting to me, so I thought that I would pass it on.

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u/Mad_Moniker 5d ago

Moonshiners - last season? Made my mouth water as I watched an episode on this 😆.

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u/AJ_in_SF_Bay 4d ago edited 4d ago

How about that? I haven't watched Moonshiners in years. Moonshiners is just fiction, it is just a soap opera. Although the Discovery Channel hasn’t publicly confirmed that when the Moonshiners writers develop episodes for their fictional docudrama they pull a lot directly from the broader home distilling community; although they dont confirm it, this is well established. So when I said I saw something on some video in my reply above, I meant on a real home distilling forum, like a YouTube channel, not a fake TV show. Not to be a jerk, just to clarify.

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u/ConsiderationOk7699 5d ago

If you have a thumper I watched a yt video from still in the clear. They added a can of cream corn in the thumper along with a little bit of wash and produced a very flavorful distillate. I tried it out was blown out the water on how great it came out.

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u/Successful-Chip-4520 5d ago

I don't think itll work and if it did it won't work well

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u/Various_Respond6433 5d ago

I have never tried it. But I ha e been told the cob has a lot of sugars. Go for it. And let us know how it comes out.