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: 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. It will take roughly three to four passes for the natural enzymes found in grain break down the grain’s starches. After your grains have achieved your desired mil texture, throw the grain’s starches in to a pot of boiling water, so that they leach out of the cracked grain. Stir the mash until the mixture reaches near boiling point, which will help convert the starches to sugar. The sugary liquid that results from mash is known as wort. Fermenting Bourbon Mash
Once your grains are mashed, it’s yeast time!