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100% Corn Bourbon - Mixing Mash Bills?
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Posted November 22, 2005
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Call me crazy, but let's suppose you had a few whiskeys that were each 100% of one of the major mash grains (Corn, Wheat, Rye, Barley, etc.). After they have been similiarly aged, could you mix them to simulate different mash bills? I really don't think so, I could cook all of the ingredients in a nice Marinara sauce seperately and toss them with spaghetti but I seriously doubt it would taste good. I believe the mash would suffer here. IIRC: malting corn is not too easy, and the mash is cooked at different temps and times as the grains are added (correct me if I'm wrong here). These changes in temp would also affect the other grains that are already in the mash, while you might be able to cook the grains that go in first useing the same routine, it would be difficult to introduce the later grains to a mash already full the slurry that results from the earlier ones. The yeasts might not be as happy to live in a mash of just one grain either, as one grain may release more usable sugars than another. This would cause one batch to ferment slowly practially creating an aged mash while another might ferment extremely quickly and to too high an ABV, creating more problems. We only wish it was this easy to mingle a whiskey to match our own preferences.