Ok, got a question. After I dried the malt in the dryer, which worked great, and then tossed into my Ninja blender, i got my malt to the consistency of cracked corn (didn't want it to be fine like corn meal and more difficult to strain). So at this point can I just toss it into 150F water and let it do its magic or since the corn has been dried after malting do I need to do some kind of pre-soak to soften it up? Still kind of a noob at this lol!

I'm from germany and actually study brew and beveragetecnolegy in bavaria, and from a semi professional standpoint you explained the process very accurat and good

To stop germination I built a screen rack with vfc a 4" wood frame, set my gas oven at dehydrate which is 125 degree convection for about 6 hours +/-, then set the rack on a fan and let it sit at room temp for 48 hours....yes getting the roots off is a pain, will try the pillow case method...happy home brewing.❤

Here in the Great Southern Land, we can, legally, distill spirits, but from there it gets a little weird. We can make wine and beer at home and it won't attract any sort of taxation, but for some strange reason, if we're distilling spirits at home, we have to pay a tax on every bottle we produce. I went into an Australian distillers' forum and read a thread where a bloke had contacted the Taxation Dept. about his obligations in this area and the woman he spoke to basically told him they really weren't all that interested in what he did, as long as he didn't start selling the stuff. WE can also buy commercially made home distillery kits which attract a pretty hefty sales tax. However you can get around this by buying half of the kit, which attracts no tax because half of a distillery kit isn't a complete distillery. Then you wait a while and go back and buy the other half! Nobody ever said that the thought processes of politicians and public servants had to have anything to do with logic or common sense!

Putting the malt in a pillow case and then putting it in the clothes dryer is a great idea. Thanks! :)

yessssss !!!! Legalize home distilling.

Mr. Bearded, first time commenting, but have been watching your videos pretty much non stop the last few months (along with from the dudes in your crew..!). Man, I just want to say HUGE THANKS! Watching your videos gets my mind going on all sorts of projects now that I have everything all set up. Lately I've been finding myself looking around at the store going.... "i bet i can ferment that". Anyway, thanks again for all the info, you are truly a gem.

Awesome job. Very interesting and especially the explanation of the process and what to avoid. I am looking forward to doing this soon. George

I completed my first malted corn run. Very good system beard. 8 hour soak 8 hour rest 4 times and 36 hour and turning every 4-5 hours with in that period rest before the box fan works superb.

Thanks for the video .

My wife, hey honey where did our window screens go??? Dang thunderstorm winds!!! thanks for taking the time to do this.

Ty bud I love your info I'm from Tennessee and I'm a 3rd generation moonshiner and I'm chasing the craft ....keep up the good Info

Another fine, fine video full of fun information. I soon plan to try my hand at malting some corn I have coming. Really looking forward to it now that I have the backing of your knowledge. Thank you ever so much for sharing. Have a great day and a better week. Bye.

I enjoyed your channel. I live in Mo where it's legal to make spirits for your own consumption. I plan to take advantage of that

Hey Bearded and Bored, @06:55, MUCH easier method for removing chaff from the malt. You'll need a box fan, which you already own, and two large bowls or buckets (and a broom). After you've tumbled the corn in the dryer to knock off the chaff, stand the box fan upright on a table or workbench and pour the corn from one container to the other in the path of the fan. Wish I could take credit for it, but I'm pretty sure the ancient Sumerians thought of tossing grain into the breeze a few thousand years before me... All in all, took me less than a minute to separate the chaff from the malt, and another 4-5 to sweep up the mess.

Yes, I agree the distilling law is past its propose. Back in the roaring 20s people were making anything to sell. Lots of unscrupulous people were using car radiators as a condenser and other dangerous things. Today, People are making distilled spirits primarily for their own consumption and enjoyment of aa hobby. That is why I do it. Question on the malting corn - why do you use popcorn? Is there a reason why you don't use the corn for feed?

Great work am a small farmer in rural Kenya East Africa .. trying out my first batch

man this really helped me for my exams thanks

The Alton Brown of home malting, thanks!

I am growing a beared man, by the time it matches yours, i will be drinking my own homemade beer. Kudos

I like this method. Looking to make a corn whiskey using malted corn, and not using malted barley for the enzymes. Great videos!

Just started and watching on malted corn thx

thank you

Great little series - if you aren't a teacher by trade, maybe you missed your profession. Though I've not malted corn, I've malted barley for decades; I use a double bucket system for malting.I drilled hundreds of holes in bottom of the top bucket and put a drain valve in the bottom bucket and do my soaking routine there, then spread the grains in trays to let the acrospire and rootlets develop (I use the same system of buckets for my sparging). I can then put those trays into an electric smoker I bought for various projects and dry it there. Early on I tried the dryer method: one burst pillow case convinced me to find another method of drying. The smoker also works well for decarboxylizing my weed and drying produce to put down in the fall.

Hey brother..as far as laws on distilling in the states...It's Bulls#@t...my family has made shine around here (Clarksville TN) since 1796.it's all about the govt not gettin their tax $$$..of the likker..R.I.P Popcorn we'll carry on..

Thank u for sharing I think I will try to make malted corn whisky.... Soon.

Great job

Bearded & Bored, I get a lot of good info from your videos... Thanks so much for your time and effort! I'm on soak #3 right now, can't wait to see how it turns out!

You could use a raffle drum if the holes are to big wrap in screen I would say could modify to use your rotisserie motor to turn it

Thanks for the video ;) and greets from Austria

Very cool I'm thinking of doing this for ethanol thank😝

This by far the best video I've seen, great casual approach. I'm going to do this tomorrow! Sub'd

I was looking for a good malted corn recipe. :)

ooh buy the you have the best malting video yet every help full

Love to hear your take on home distillation in the US!

LOL I was laughing so loud I had to rewind several times :-) because I missed what you said next. Thumbs up to the corn pimp ! Give e'm a good blow ! I did say to put plastic in them to keep the water in. Live and learn, next year will be so much better ! And remember to have fun while doing it !! Cheers, I'll go keg some pilsner an stout. :-)

Great job. Very effective process

thanks for the video I thought it was awesome and very well done

I believe in wat ur saying great vid, love to c u make some shine I made my own homemade in Canada lol

Thanks for the videos! Im making a Zulu Beer (UMQOMBOTHI) and the recipe called for 2kg Maize Malt... Couldn't find it anywhere in The US! Thanks to your help I'm now in the process of making it myself. And I've had a great time doing it! Thanks for making this whole quarantine thing a little more fun!

Thanks for the malting videos. I've got 350 lbs of wheat that needs malting

That was cool

Thank you so much for helping me with this bud

i'm not sure if you have it there, but I found a bread thats made from malted grains at my local store. I'm going to it a try

Thanks for adding... Only one issue I would have liked to have seen in your process... it was the removable of the sprouts, that can be a major issue. I would have liked to see how you ended up with those two nice sacks. E$

Freekin way cool man..... Thanks.

ive heard good things about you man teacher teach and get us ready for the real world thx:)

I would love to hear your opinion. As for me I favor freedom over government overreach.

Nice work dude

Thanks Bored Baby Beard :)

I agree with you that. Being able to distill for your own consumption. Should be legal, and allowed. If they are contemplating legalizing marijuana. Then they should legaliz distilling.

can you try your hand at malting some pumpkin seeds?? cant find this anywhere!!

Yes, ld like to know more on distilling.

please let's have more info on the legality of home distillation

What if one freeze dries the corn? The roots will be so dedicated the wild pulverize and fall off with a minimum of force. Placing the malt in a ziplock bag with a couple of desiccant packets should remove any remaining moisture if any.

Good Job a nd thanks.

Wanna hear your thoughts on home distillery

Great videos 👍👍🍻 cheers

Great video, thank you. Is it possible to dry the corn in a food dehydrator, like the round multi layer type?

Right Sir that is as easy as it gets, I'm going to do a batch asap...one Q how can I work out the diastatic power of the corn malt so I can add some adjuncts for mouth feel...like smoked barley or oats and be sure that the corn will have enough extra power to convert their starches to sugars?. Thanks inadvance mate. :)

Ok, I figured out a way to mash corn meal that every bit of the starch is converted to glucose. I even did an iodine test and had absolutely no black or dark blue, the iodine stayed the original color. Here is what you'll need: A double boiler: I made my own using an 8 quart pressure cooker pot I had. My cook pot fit inside it on top of a small rack I had. I let the steam heat my mash to prevent scourching! SEBstar HTL Enzyme SEBamyl GL enzyme (The enzymes are necessary to convert the starch) Yeast nutrient (I use this any time I add sugar to a batch) 5 lbs corn meal 5 lbs sugar Instructions: Add enough water to your double boiler to just cover the bottom of your boil pot. Add 3 gallons of COLD WATER to your boil pot and pour in the corn meal and stir until lumps are gone (adding corn meal to hot water will create dough balls that will not desolve, trust me this has been proven by trial and error!) Add 1/2 tsp of SEBstar HTL Enzyme to cold water. This will keep your corn meal thinned out while gelatinizing it. The SEBstar HTL Enzyme is stable in heat up to 195 degees, so be careful to keep your temperature between 175 and 190 for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.... If you exceed 195, you've killed your enzyme!. After 1 hour, turn off the burner and add enough ice cubes to lower temperature to 150 and stir in 1/2 tsp of SEBamyl GL enzyme. SEBamyl GL enzyme is stable to 158 degrees, so do not exeed that temperature!.. I then cover my boil pot, leaving it inside my double boiler with the heat turned off for one and a half hours.... After the one and a half hour wait, I add sugar and stir until desolved then I dump my still hot mash into my fermentation bucket. I pour back and forth between two buckets at least 7 times to airiate. Add 1 1/2 gallons of cold water to fermentation bucket to cool down to between 100-110 degrees. Take about 1/2 cup of liquid out of my fermentation bucket to start my yeast in. I use about one and 3/4 tbsp of either Fleishmann or Red Star dry active yeast. (Never use the quick rise stuff.) Once yeast is rising and foaming good, add back to your mash with yeast nutrient (add per package instructions and stir well). Cover fermentation bucket with lid and add airlock. Buckle your seatbelt, this will bubble like crazy for several days!

AN electric plug in dehumidifier will dry material at a reasonable temperature, and a vey good rate.

I have heard it several times "if home distillation was legal the government would lose so much money." That not true. Home wine and beer making is legal and I don't see every one making it. Heck I don't even see everyone making bread and that's not just legal but cheap and easy. It is way easier to buy it. and always will be.

what do u think about using a home dehumidifier for dring corn.

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The distilling laws vary by state. Washington State has no additional laws regarding distillation, so it can be done here legally under the guise of alcohol fuel distilling. The application can be found here: www.ttb.gov/forms/f511074.pdf It's free to fill out, but the process takes a government employee about 3-4 months to get back to you. With this permit, you can legally distill "alcohol fuels" for your lawn mower etc, but the distillate must be denatured with methanol if it is removed from the address on the permit. Since there is no law prohibiting drinking alcohol fuel, you can drink your moonshine..er, um, alcohol fuel at home.

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Great video! After u put in dryer to knock of the roots and the other thing, what do u do with the leftover corn? Do u ONLY put in the Roots, ect., into the mash to convert? The leftover corn, do u ferment it? After reading the comments, WHICH part of the grain do u use to cinvert with, the Chafe or the Kernel?

Can you use a dehydrator to dry the grains instead of a dryer?

I don’t have screens but I do have a dehydrator... if you do that would you only tumble it in the dryer for an hour or still do the full 2 hours?

Hi, Great job. Can you help, I want a mini brewery for corn malt in my country.

Will this method work for feed corn?

How can we help together change the low let us know thanks Terry

Hello. Why is corn malt rarely produced industrially? I am from europe and finding corn malt here is quite difficult. Why do you think this is so?

After doing all this .and grinding it down and putting it in 150 degree water do you still have to use a amylase enzyme convert to sugar I'm new to all this grain what can you use barley to convert it

Question, why not use a dehydrator to stop sprouting and dry the corn out? Seems like one would have more precise control of moisture percentage.

Great video man. I would like to ask you if there is any other method to kilning and remove the residuals?since i don’t own a dryer

Where is the link to your friend from New Zealand?

My question is how long is too long in the growing process?

stupid question, why you dont put it directly in a pillowcase and throw it wet into the dryer, would it not save you the step with drying it on the windows? However thats for sure something i will try here THANKS for sharing, you are my hero ;) BTW, i guess laws on homebrewing are same all over the world. Governments making shitloads of money from Alc.Tax and Tobacco Tax

could you smoke the corn to dry it like with oak or mesquite wood? would the flavor impart to the beverage?

Fruits like mango, banana and raw honey contain amylase. Is it recommendable to use in a wash or mash? I understand it's not enough to change all the starch in sugars but is it a way to convert more starch? And what would it do to the flavour?

So,I've got my corn sat out. When its finished,can I just start mashing it? Rather than maticulessly dry and knock off the sprouts?

Do u use the Corn Kernel or do u use the Chafe from the Corn to add into your fermentation?

Great video. I have one question. After malted corn has converted its own starches to sugar does it have any extra enzymes to convert adjuncts?

Just wondering if you could put pillow cased corn malt into a rice bucket to dry it

Great videos. I am enjoying my way through all of them. I do have one question oh, I malted some corn and now I need to grind it. What type of grinder do you use or recommend 4 small batch 8 pound ish at a time?

Do you have to dry out the malted corn if you use it right away ?

I am very new to this whole process and I am in learning/watching/reading mode. You mention getting amylase from the corn, but I was under the impression that corn does not contain any amylase. Is that true?

What about the roots you knocked off the grain? Doesn't that constitute a lot of sugar, since the malting process creates them? Why not leave em in?? I know there's a reason, I just wanna know what that reason is. I may be an idiot, but I'm an idiot of reason.

How could one use this to make Malting Powder like used for malted milkshakes and malted milk balls? The stuff at the store has too many chemicals and sugar added.

Can you do this for deer corn from a feed store?

Hope ya kept the sprouts. The hippies tell me they're real good for ya.

Will the sun do the trick? I don't have drier.

Guys voice reminds me of James Spader

Adding to Jason Hoeflich's questions, could you take the malted corn, grind it up and use it as an amylase? Meaning if I boiled up eight pounds of unmalted ground corn, then added, I don't know 1/2 pound of malted corn at 155 degrees, will that work the same as adding amylase?

Can you use malted corn while it is still wet? Or do you have to dry it thanks Ronnie

Very interesting videos! If I want to use corn malt, do I need to adjust my malt mill to a different grain size? Or can I just go with my standard setting that I use for barley and wheat?

How do you store the final product? Freeze, refrigerate, hot, cold, etc.?

Is there any reason that you can not leave the sprouts on the corn and bypass the tumbling stage. I ask as I thought I might dry using the smoker on real low and this might add more Smokey flavour when distilling not for beer