How to make Moonshine : Step 2: UJSSM, Generation 2 : Sour Mash, Sugar Wash Whisky 

Put a book under one side of the fermenter a day before you siphon. Your corn will all settle to one side, making it really easy to get most of your wash out. No scoop needed. :)

US fan here, tractor supply has 50lb bags of cracked corn for $14USD, you can get the same bag uncracked during hunting season for around $6 and run it through your own mill

This feels like the best class I've ever attended. Screw University. Great stuff. Cheers!

These videos are fantastic! Getting ready for my first run and these make me feel pretty comfortable. Thanks!

You are doing a great job documenting the process. I'm fermenting my first run now, and intend to follow your process closely. Jack Daniels Sour mash, in me opinion, yeilds the perfect spirit. So I'm ultra happy you are following a Sour mash recipe. Word to the wise. Don't underestimate your viewers thirst for raw data. Continue to deliver scientific data with your journey. Your preciseness is a draw to subscribe. Keep up the good content.

Game Changer, You're the man Jessie, Great videos. Just finished my first Gen#1 of this recipe, can't wait to see how it goes. ( We are so lucky here in NZ to do this legally )

Everybody swears by this recipe, so I'm excited to follow along and find out how the flavors change and see the whole process. Great video series!

I found along the way that natural spring water helped a lot with flavor and proof, just an idea... Great vids

I was like, "why is he ignoring his kid calling out dad in the background?" Turns out different kind of kid lol.😁

I’ve been holding back on heading into the whiskey game, since I’ve had such good luck with my reflux still, and new stuff is scary to me lol. I do have a pot still head made and a worm, but I’ve been shying away from it. You’ve inspired me and I’m going to make the plunge. UJSSM is in the works for me as my next several runs. Keep up the awesome job on the channel, I’ve been a follower and subscriber of yours since you first posted the idea for the channel on the home distilling forums. You rock!

Looking good so far. Can't wait to see what you think of the product over a couple of generations.

Lol the sheep in the background. As an Australian, this made me laugh. Love ya Jessie!

About to run my first gen on Saturday I’m so bloody excited!

I love this can't wait to start the UJSSM !!!

Just distilled gen 1 ujssm... Must say it is amazing cant wait for gen 2 thanks for the help man 👍

I really enjoy the way you present and how informative this was. New sub!

very cool using a keg. I just ordered a Mile Hi 8 gal and it should do all I need it to. sure could have gone bigger but as my friend says is why. you get more control over running smaller batches and you use less heat. he has a 30 gal and a 10 gal still. he uses his 10 after comparing them. for those who don't know a 8 gal is 6-6.5 gal of mash liquid. a 10 is 8-8.5. you always have to leave head room and after seeing a couple runs I think in a 8 gal 5.9-6.1 gal is perfect.

My Tractor Supply in Tennessee has cracked corn for $8 a bag. I mill it fine in a roller mill. I use a simple variation of UJSSM. I was getting some contamination from uncooked corn. 25 gallon wash. 16 gallon cook pot. 15 gallon 2" column still. I cook the corn while mixing with a drill and a mortar mixer. The flavor is better if you cook everything for about 2 hours. I add some milled distillers malt when it gets too thick and that breaks down the gel. Next generations I use 7 lbs brown sugar, 3 lbs Munton's Amber spray malt, 4 lbs white sugar, and 25% backset. I don't add fresh corn. My end result is sweet and doesn't have the sugar bite or the industrial taste. Yield is about a gallon of 170 proof per week after cutting. Fores to light the BBQ, heads and tails back in the still. I usually only go 3 generations. I blend all 3 together in a 3 gallon jar with toasted oak chips. Real Tennessee Whiskey from the Smoky Mountains. My only break is in the summer when the apples and pears are ripe.

Spent grain is fantastic to use for chickens, or if you hunting pig or deer, lay some out and wait, they will come. Good video Jesse, I've done sweet feed, but not corn, always wondered about kibbled maze in NZ, figured it was the same.

Man I love your content even though I cannot distill anything here in the states I still enjoy watching your shows my favorite part however is the goats in the background it's freaking hilarious keep doing what you doing

Hello, greetings from Argentina. I'm doing single malt, you think of doing this for a single malt, filtering the must as beer with a false bottom, then while distilling add water to the grain used in the fermenter to filter it and use it for the next must together with the 25 percent that remains after the distillation? how about? thank you

13.49 for a huge feed bag of cracked corn where I live...but for some reason they want your lot number(land location I believe) when you buy the stuff 🤔

Great channel! I have witnessed on initial and 1st gen that the 3rd jar (using quarts) is milky. Thoughts/suggestions

Great video and helped me get my gen1 in the bucket (I’m a long time brewer so this is my first try at something without all-grain) I have one question- I noticed you didn’t stir up the corn and yeast into suspension before capping the fermenter, was this intentional?

I don't know if anyone has answered this question, but: you can get 50 lb bags of cracked corn (feed) from Tractor Supply in the USA for about $10 (USD). Make sure you get the cracked, as they also sell the whole corn, but the whole will not make it through a grain mill. I take the cracked corn from the bag and mill it down to the lowest setting on my roller mill (0.1"). I find that I get a much better efficiency (>90%) when I mill it down to this level. If you're using an electric drill to run your mill, make sure that you use a drill that can generate sufficient torque (cracked corn is a bugger to mill)

Sugar and corn are a 1-1 ratio. 1 gram of yeast per gallon..made it most of my life..mine tastes like water..til it hits your stomache..you guys love shine..in america we love whiskey(my people made) its funnt.

So cracked corn can be purchased through Tractor Supply in the U.S. for about $9 per 50 lb. Bag.

Hi thank you for putting these videos up they are very informative. On your 2nd gen you took out 2 ½ jugs of corn and put back the same with dry corn. Would you not end up with too much corn because I believe for sake of argument 1lb dry corn would end up 4lb wet? I am now on my 3rd gen and I have loads of corn in the bucket. Hope this makes sense.

Thanks for getting back to me. So iam new to craft spirits. I have my air still and I make a suger wash to run though it. It hold 4 litters at a time so when I run it I get rid of the first tablespoon or so then collect 750ml which the ABV is around 60- 65% then the ABV drop quick down to around 30%. Can I collect this down and run it back through the still. Thanks again and love watching your channel.

This one of my favorite recipes 👍, I really don’t know how many generations u can get, I done 18 gen had to take a brake...lol!👍

You are awesome! I want to ask if you use a certain ph in the water you add when dilluting your cuts? Cheers mate

love the videos. as for the corn, In the U.S. You can get a cracked 50lbs for $13. at almost any feed grain store (dodge farms agway, tractor supply, even your own local feed store) $13 u.s. dollars for a 50lbs = 22.67 kilograms

At farm&fleet you can get 55lb bag of cracked corn for under $10. But I live in DeKalb county Illinois. Known for the best sweet corn in the Midwest USA. Sweet corn shine is tastey.

In the US, both Tractor Supply and Rural King have 50lb. bags of cracked corn for 7 to 10 dollars, depending on what state it's in.

Martingale feed were I get mine 50pds for $6 dollars,deer corn is about the same tractor supply is a little more expensive 👍❤️

As usual jessie another great vid

Great video. What temp do you ferment at and do you adjust ph.

This is by far the most helpful video on RU-vid

In the states, cracked corn is $10 for a 50 lbs bag at Tractor Supply. Super cheap. Just look in the chicken feed section.

Don't be afraid to use that drum tap on the bottom of the bucket. The grain will compact and form a filterbed.

Interesting.......When I was brewing beer, I took a Fast Ferment conical, and ran a continuous fermentation using Sigmunds Kvoss Kavik yeast. I introduced wort 2 gallons at a time, each batch a bit different in grain and hops, once a week, the 4th week, I pulled off 2 gallons into secondary, and dry hopped. Each addition I pulled off the yeast ball, and poured the wort in boiling hot, and tossed in the saved yeast once it cooled. I ran this for 18 generations, gradually changing the character as the notion hit me. Sediment was pulled off during the process to keep it from accumulating too much. I had a fermentation bucket tap installed at a level that allowed me to rack off the wort for secondary instead of pulling off the bottom. This is a very similar process. It produced excellent product, and the yeast..... a more or less "wild yeast" stayed true. adding the boiling wort, was probably the key.

Tractor supply here in Pennsylvania USA they sale 50lb bags of sweet corn or feed corn for $7 ....also a trick people do is buy sweet feed which has corn and a big mixture of grains coated in unsulfured black strap molasses

Congratulations on the awards you won last nite!!!

I'm waiting with baited breath for the all grain. So I'll hit the sub button so I don't miss it.

What a great video - will have to try this at some point! I was just wondering whether methanol is a concern with this process? Thank you so much!

As for finding corn feed in the good old USofA I live in Central Utah and got 50 lbs bag of corn for like 12 bucks, And a 50 lbs bag of barley for like 14 bucks at a local feed Mill

Hello!....thanks for all the information. What yeast are you using for this?

I will be using flaked corn, would i treat it the same as cracked corn, i.e., taking the top off and replacing it with more flaked ? brilliant vids by the way

Just getting into UJSSM and would like to know how to store the backset if not going to use it right away. Realy like your videos Jessie.

Hey Jesse, keep coming back to this vid, love it... was just about to do a 2nd gen stripping run when it dawned on me. Obviously I've been taking the reflux coil out but do you take all of the marbles and copper wool out of the column? I've been leaving them in and can't help thinking that I may have been missing out on something... what do you do dude?

So I was wondering...Can you replace the 4.2kg of corn with let's say 3.0kg corn and the other 1.2kg barley malt+rye?Could that combination add a bit more sophisticated flavor the the finish whisky?

So after you do your first ferment, you strip run. Take backset, sugar and water and do another ferment. This is gen1. Take those stripped spirits and pour it in the next stripping run. After that what do you do with the spirits? Keep pouring it in the next stripping run?

Hi Jesse, is this recipe worth trying in a reflux still or is it only suitable for a pot still?

Hope you saved some back set for the boiler and next run as well..that's how we roll...30% great wouldn't go over slows the fermentation I think...sweet feed I do five or six runs then start new.last time did the broke the corn starch down to sugure made apple pie everyone lived it.

I've been subscribed for a few years now, and you've helped me with my cuts and how I've progressed with my double distillation. Please help my neighbor with his malted grainery. Located in central Ohio, Rustic Brew farm raises brewing grains on a family farm. Help small business!

After adding all the contents into batch 2, do you need to stir it all up to get the yeast off the bottom. Or just let it do its thing?

So if you ran the first wash slow would it be a decent product to drink

Quick question do you always use distilled water or is store brought purified water adequate?

I found in the US on Amazon 50 lb for $40.99 just a quick search though looks like the best in the first five pages

The way you manipulate your mash means you allow a lot of oxygen to mix up with it. This is necessary to multiply your yeasts and I believe it also induces some lactic fermentation hence the sourness, or am I wrong?

Hi, I fermented gen1 at 31deg. All done now. Must I reduce temp to drop yeast out, or can I just syphon at current temp?

can you do the same thing but with grain/wheat/etc instead of corn?

After adding all liquid don't you stir it around again to aerate?

how many times can you ferment with the same yeast? do you never add new yeast if you continue to make sour mash, say for instance 100 times? Thanks

Love it

How can i get a still like the one you using. How many gallons is it. Thanks for the videos ..

From what I've been told a standard is the first run the second is the sour curious if there's a name for the Third run

Curious what your starting ABV was for these washes?

How much yeast and what yeast do you use, mine is taking almost 2 weeks ferment, im using 40g high foam yeast

I just bought some cracked corn feed from the TSC store here in Canada for $9 per 25kg bag!

Can u use a biab mesh bag to hold your corn while it ferments? that would make it an easy separation of solids that would leave a nice yeast cake at the bottom of your bucket?

So what target SG are we looking for? 1.064 seems kinda low? Wouldn’t 1.090 be a better target ? Thanks Jesse

Love the goat at 0:02!🐐

Do anti foaming agents or using butter / oil for that purpose in the still negatively affect the back set?

Does anyone know how long the yeast will stay alive in its dormant state. I have a batch that has fermented out and been sat in the fermenter for quite some time, do I try for the next generation or Start over again ? .

O Jesse do u degass, I do after I stray it, and I put a anti-foaming agent to keep it from puking 🤮 thanks

I use the cracked corn 1 pound per gallon with honey 20 oz per gallon and brown sugar 1 pound-ish per gallon yum yummmm it would be great if you’d try it Jessie and let’s everyone know what you think 🤔😁👍🏻

Hi Jessie I've got my first 1st Gen fermenting right now and I was wondering if you intentionally didn't stir up the corn bed or was that an oversight?

Hi Jessie - or anyone really - 2 questions... - do you stir up the mix when you add the sugar syrup and water for the second batch? - the recipe calls for 25g of yeast but a typical TPW is 80... any idea why so much less? Thanks for sharing man I always look forward to your vids!

May I ask , you are not giveing away the start (metanol)? thnx

As a thought, get to gen 3/4 then use the entire back set and step up to your big fermenter and 100ltrs.

What about using enzymes to break down the corn starches so they can be converted to usable sugars?

thank you

You probably already been told but using 30% backset each gen you may run into ph issues and sluggish ferments. You may want to invest in some ph paper or meter and some calcium carbonate or shell grit to balance it out..

I give it to my chickens lol there laying like hell 👍🤣 great video

Hi Anyone know the difference between granulated and kibbled maize? silly question? cheers.

How do siphon all the beer off from the first gen in ny experience there is always some you can't get because you get the milky stuff

Some people heat their mash for an hour before letting it ferment. Does this reduce fermentation time or make more liquor?

Another great video mate, making my UJSSM along with your videos 😁. Few quick questions mate. 1.When you run the still for the first generations, can you run it as a spirit run instead of stripping run? 2.Also I'm running a basic pot still. When I do a stripping run, what temp do I have boiler on low or high temp and what about water flow into condenser. 3. On a 25L boiler is there a min amount needed to use still? Any help would be great man. Keep up the great videos, helps a lot 😁.

If the corn is replenished every Gen, can I add malt at my say 5th Gen to get a sour malt whiskey to finish it off before discarding my last Gen?

Hi just wondering are adding the same amount of sugar for second and third generation too or you just carrying out with backsit I shall be great full if you let me know thanks

I typically pay $8-9 for 50# cracked corn in KY at about any farm store such as Tractor Supply or any mom and pop.

I have a question: why aren't you stirring the sour mash once you've added all the liquid? is there a specific reason? Thank you for these awesome videos! best regards from switzerland :D

Was wondering Jesse why you couldn't do a spirit run on the 1st generation do you just throw away the distillate?

I would love to know a bit more about methanol and when it is released in the distillation process. Does it come out in the stripping run or does it come out whenever you are refining the product

Hey Mike here just wondering I'm wanting to make spirits do I have to get any kind of permit through the government let me know thanks

Jesse I made Ujssm one. What would you think about putting fax it in after it’s made from a previous run of agave?

Cracked corn 50 lb bag from tractor supply store is about $20 USD.

Hi there great channel. Can I make ujssm using my air still that I have it holds 4 litters at a time.

The grey that you see may be the cob and not the corn that you seek. I find a lot of cob in the crack corn I get from Tractor supply here also there's sunflower seeds in it also. I spend a little more and get the crack corn they have for birdseed. Try rinsing your corn and scoop off anything that floats. That's just my two cents.