Title: 🥃 How To Make Bourbon At Home: A Guide for Making Your Own Whisky
Headings: 🥃 How To Make Bourbon At Home: Distill Your Own Whiskey
🥃 How To Make Bourbon At Home: Distill Your Own Whiskey
First thing first — it is important to note that brewing distilled spirits including bourbon or any other type of whiskey, vodka, gin is illegal and potentially dangerous in all of the states in the USA. Please read this article from a hypothetical perspective, and use the info for your own knowledge.
Here are the steps that I’ll go over in this guide on how to make bourbon at home:
HOMEMADE BOURBON RECIPE INGREDIENTS
Bourbon Making Hardware List
Ingredients for your Homemade Bourbon Mash Mix
How To Make The Bourbon Mash
Pro Tip: A recommended blend to start with for bourbon is 75% corn, 15% rye, and 10% barley.
Fermenting Bourbon Mash
Add Some Character To Your Bourbon In The Still
COLLECT THE BOURBON DISTILLATE
FORESHOTS
HEADS
HEARTS
TAILS
AGEING BOURBON AT HOME

Content: Without time spent in oak barrels, bourbon would remain dry and fiery, and devoid of the delicious toasty, vanilla, caramel, and nutty notes that gives bourbon its unique physical and chemical nature.) A corona corn and grain mill – (You will need this to crush the grain products quickly)
A funnel
A food thermometer
A 10 gallon copper still (didn’t know you could buy these, did you?) Or you can get complete distilling units here. Ingredients for your Homemade Bourbon Mash Mix
Start with 5.5 gallons of water
7 lbs of corn maize
1.5 lbs of rye
1.5 lbs of barley
Some nut milk bags
toasted oak chips
Some distillers yeast
How To Make The Bourbon Mash
Mash in the world of Bourbon is the process of combining milled/crushed grain with water. The water should be warm enough to activate the enzymes, and so that it can break down the starches into short-grain sugars. It is worth noting that bourbon mash is different from beer mash, because it’s thin, sour, and usually quite boozy — which is not something you’d be happy to drink by the pint. A traditional bourbon mash is a combination of at least 50% corn, rye and wheat, but you will have to play around with the grain’s ratios. Pro Tip: A recommended blend to start with for bourbon is 75% corn, 15% rye, and 10% barley. To get started with making the mash for your batch of homemade bourbon at home, grab your corona corn and grain mill, and add all your grain to it.