Easy Bourbon Mash (Yellow Angel Yeast) 

Good stuff mate let me know how you go

Thanks mate, just starting out, plenty more to come and hopefully with that comes improvement. !!

@@gezzmang1 Well I'm also new in this and from South Africa so grab on all info I can get

Thanks mate much appreciated

Thanks mate appreciate it

Thanks mate, will do appreciate your support

Thanks mate

Thanks mate, let me know how you go, the more information the better for everyone !!

@@gezzmang1 pretty keen to see how it all turns out too,will do buddy

Thanks mate

Ah good stuff mate let me know how it goes

Thanks mate big fan of your work as well !!

Thanks mate, it should get better with time just like the bourbon hahah

Yeah it does stink for a whilst I find that eventually it goes away

No reason why it wouldn’t work, just be interesting to see the yield. The yellow label yeast is still very in tested when it comes to other starches other then rice, only have what other people have done. The bigger the sample size the better evidence we have!!! Happy distilling. Also a thermo mix tip, don’t put too much in as you’ll stress the engine.

@@gezzmang1 Yeah cheers! Il just have to see what quantity I use. Il just do a 60lt batch and go from there. as all my washes have mostly been molasses washes I’m keen to see what the corn is like!

I haven’t done a bunch of all grain to be honest just getting started on all grain after many years of sugar washes and ujssm style mashes. I will def give it a whirl on the next all grain I do. Stay tuned!!!

​@@gezzmang1 Awesome!! i do an all corn cold mash tecnique. i basicly use 4 pound malted ground corn, 4 pound cracked corn 30 gall water 30 pounds of sugar. a flaavored sugar wash basicly. im lookin foreward to learning more on all grain!!

Big sieve with cheese cloth.

Thanks man

What condenser is that ? Diy or bought ?

Check out home distillers australia mate it’s a dual head still, potstill mode and reflux in the same still set up.

Nah mate more then likely you are right, this vid was made up with too little foresight and or planning HHaha basically bought some grain and then threw it all together. I will be doing another go at this down the track though. Thanks

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@@gezzmang1 thanks

In relation to this recipe I would do the same I just wouldn’t use angel yeast. I’ve been trying to do more runs with it but it seems it imparts are really vomit like smell to anything that isn’t rice. The flavour of the bourbon is great however I just can’t get over the smell unfortunately

Reason being mate, in this video I used yellow angel yeast which converts starch as it goes, so you can’t take a gravity reading as the starch hasn’t been converted to sugar yet. I use my hydrometer in almost everything else I do except when using yellow angel yeast

@@gezzmang1 makes sense. I never thought of that. Thanks.

@@Firestalkeriq all good, this is is relatively new so getting your head around how it works is a different beast, making sure that it’s finished fermenting is also something else cause in my experience it lightly ferments away for a long period of time.

40kgs of plums !! That’s awsome, you have a tree or you get them from somewhere ?

@@gezzmang1 I have a tree. Well I had a tree. I just sold the house so this is the last year for them.

So my theory was, that yeah I probably could have done cold water, but I wanted to get the most out of it, the corn I got was coursely ground so I wanted to try and soften as much of it as I could. I’ve seen Jessie’s one and he also did a hot water one as a test and that did slightly better then the cold. I’m going to do this whole recipe again later on in the year and I might even do a side by side comparison with cold water to see if there is much difference. I also thought that getting it up to temp would have been a little more tricky if I used cold water as it’s fairly cold where I am at the moment. So using hot water and letting it cook was easier then going cold and heating it up with belts and pads ect. Thanks for watching mate appreciate it and the feedback !

It will still help if you gelanitize your corn starches first and that takes boiling water. The molted barley should have enough enzyme in them to not need the angel yeast

Bout to release another video, comparing corn mashes with angel yeast again enzyme mash. I’ll be doing a review in that so stay tuned.

Did you do a UjSSM or a corn mash and added sugar to that ?

@@gezzmang1 16 kilos of cracked corn, 1 can of LME malted barley and wheat. its fermented down to under 1.000 its ready to go when i get time to run it. 20 kgs of sugar, got it to 12 percent potential ABV

Good stuff mate sounds great

Yeah mate

Hahah not missing anything mate, that was me being a dumb dumb

Hey mate, thanks, except when using this yeast which will work regardless in converting the starches. That’s why I was using this yeast. Thanks for the comment and I love your name and photo :)

Nah man, doesn’t need to be malted I just couldn’t get my hands on unmalted barley so still work the same regardless.

@@gezzmang1 Excellent! I can get cracked barley from my stockfeed supplier. Not convinced that cracked barley will cut it though, I am trying to think of ways to break it down finer, I am going to try my coffee grinder, it would be a long process, but we'll see. Cheers mate. Thanks for the reply.

@@vtbn53 yeah even grinding the corn down took me a whilst! Lemme know how you go !

@@gezzmang1 Will do, it's a journey, if I can get a reasonable result, then I am willing to start outlaying the $$$ for the right equipment.

@@vtbn53 that’s it man, I started out with a t500 about 8 years ago. It’s a great hobby really addictive

Wasn’t going to but I’ll do it in my next vid just for you !! Lol

What yeast were you using ?, yeah this was a first run with the yellow angel yeast and there’s a bunch of stuff I would change now. That sounds interesting what was your recipe if you don’t mind me asking

Still spirits whisky yeast first and bread yeast second.

Look at my latest clip on the rice malt and toffee barley.

Are you talking about the yellow label angel yeast ? Cause that’s what this video was all about, using it as per its instructions.

@@gezzmang1 with the yellow label yeast you should use min 0.2%-0.6% of the grain weight, you had 35 000 g of grain, so at bare minimum you would need 70 g of yeast mix to possibly get full conversion, typically people use 0.5% as this has been tested and confirmed to convert very well, meaning you would need 175 g. I use 0.6% as I would rather convert all my starch and get a good yield than to save a bit of yeast mix. You used 58 grams putting your yeast mix percentage at 0.16%.

….. OH MY GOD …….. I’m a dumb dumb haha looking back I don’t even know how I made that mistake. You are 100% correct no wonder. Might have to edit that video. Thanks mate, must have been drunk that day or something!!

@@gezzmang1 all good mate, happy to help, hopefully on the next one you get a much better yield. I currently have 10kg of corn fermenting with yellow label, so keen to run those and see what the yield is. Where are you based

@@Robshee26 how did the corn go?

Ageing is going well mate, as is life I was doing a angel yeast experiment and it’s been scrapped because some little hands got into my brewing room and pressed buttons they shouldn’t have and destroyed the whole process. So that’s been put to the side and I’m working on some other stuff but I’ll be posting a quick vid in the coming weeks about how it tastes ect.

Sonit? Not sure I understand the question

Cant say that I can just yet, I’ve only got the kitchens thermomix to mill stuff with and that takes a whilst, looking at expanding my brewing gear but not just yet.

@@gezzmang1 The bigger ones ain't cheap. 😔

Yeah, will have to try and get that past the minister of finance (wifey) at Christmas time

Hey guys look up 5 Star Brewing & Distilling supplies on Facebook & send Andrew a message. He has a very reasonably priced Corona mill for grinding grain that you can hook up a drill to instead of using the hand crank, also sells everything you need for this awesome hobby 👍🏻

There’s a Facebook group called “Hobby Distillers of Aus” too if anyone is interested.

Hahah yeah me being the dumb over excited idiot I am. Didn’t think of that when I did it haha. I will be doing a entended testing of it later next year with just unmarked grains.

@@gezzmang1 nothing wrong with being excited man that's what it's about but you didn't mash the grain you just added grain and hot water and pitched the yeast ??

@@edwardpitts5205 yeah mate, so this yellow angel yeast is supposed to work without the whole mashing process. It’s first use was for the production of rice spirits but can be essentially used with all starches.

@@gezzmang1 everything iv been reading talks about use rice but your video is the only video iv seen using corn and other grains

@@edwardpitts5205 if you look on the home distilling forums you’ll find I’m not the only one. But it does work with all starches. Figuring out the optimal way is something else entirely

Hey mate, leave it on staves and test every month or so till I like what I taste then bottle.