Learn how to Make Sweet Corn Moonshine

This website has gotten a variety of requests to do a Sweet Corn Moonshine infusion, just like Skittles Vodka. Individuals like it for Halloween and fall tailgating.

This recipe may even work with vodka, and with Bacardi gentle rum. With vodka, it’ll style precisely like sweet corn with a kick. When you use rum, the sweetness might be just a bit bit enhanced.

With the moonshine, you get the sweet flavors plus a touch of corn and grain that’s onerous to explain. When you’ve tasted Ole Smoky by itself, you understand what I imply. So let’s get on with the tutorial!

The components are actually easy. Simply the moonshine and the sweet corn! 

We used Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine and haven’t tried this with some other manufacturers. For the sweet corn, we used a grocery retailer generic and it labored effectively.

What you’ll want for Sweet Corn Moonshine:

Now, you can do the infusion proper within the bottle of moonshine, however you’ll should take out a few photographs of moonshine to suit the sweet in.

So we determined to infuse it in different containers. You are able to do the infusion proper in your presentation flasks, though you’ll have to pour it out for straining after which pour it again in once more. (Learn on, and it’ll all make sense.)

You possibly can order the identical lovely Bormioli Rocco flasks we use from Amazon. Or you may use a plain outdated mason jar.

You possibly can even use a totally cleaned outdated mayonnaise or jam jar you saved for re-use.

Step 1 – Arrange the infusion

These flasks maintain about 8.5 ounces. We put 35 sweet corns into every of three flasks after which poured the moonshine in with them, and it got here out excellent.

When you’re working with completely different sized flasks, the ratio is about 5 candies per ounce of moonshine for a not-so-sweet infusion that’s nice in cocktails with liqueur mixers.

If you need the infusion to be sweeter – which you in all probability will for those who’re simply going to drink it straight – it is best to use 6-7 candies per ounce.

When you make it too candy, you may at all times dilute it with extra moonshine. And that’s simpler than for those who make it not candy sufficient, after which have so as to add extra sweet and look forward to it to infuse and possibly pressure it once more.

We used a funnel to pour the moonshine into the flasks – it simply makes issues simpler and fewer messy.

You might also want a bit of dipper of some kind to get out the primary few ounces as a result of it’s not really easy to pour out of that broad mouth bottle. You can additionally use a spoon or any small cup.

And listed below are the flasks, with the sweet corn melting into the moonshine inside.

Step 2 – Shake, shake shake

The following step is to shake the infusion so the candies will break down faster. You must give every flask a very good shaking about 4 instances over the course of the day.

The following morning, they have been as fully dissolved as they have been going to get. The image beneath reveals the sediment that was left on the backside of the flask (and a bit of alongside the perimeters).

There’s nothing incorrect with that sediment – that’s simply a part of the sweet, and a few individuals will select to simply depart it in. If that’s you, you then’re completed! Take pleasure in your Sweet Corn Moonshine infusion.

However for those who’d desire to filter it out so it gained’t fly up into your mouth whilst you’re sipping alongside, go on to step 3.

Step 3 – Filter out the gunk

Pressure your Sweet Corn Moonshine by a espresso filter. You should use chip bag clips to clip a espresso filter to the perimeters of a measuring cup (or any cup with a pour spout).

We simply strained it as soon as, and it got here out properly clean and gunk free. However it may possibly rely upon the kind of espresso filter you employ, so chances are you’ll have to do it twice.

Tip: whenever you’re pouring the infusion by the espresso filter and also you get towards the top, a lot of the sediment might be down there in your flask.

As a substitute of pouring the gunk by the espresso filter, simply pour it out of the flask and eliminate it so that you don’t should pressure that.

Step 4 – Pour into presentation flasks

As soon as it’s strained, wash out your flasks for those who used them for the preliminary infusion. After which pour your Sweet Corn Moonshine again into the flasks.

You get this lovely clear orange liqueur that tastes so much like sweet corn with hints of corn and grain. Now you may drink it straight or pour it with cocktails.

When you’re giving it to somebody as a present, a pleasant contact is to use a chalkboard label (I used chalkboard labels) and write a bit of To and From message on there.

Right here it’s, straight up as a shooter with some whipped cream on prime:

And right here it’s layered on prime of Creme de Banane (banana liqueur) with whipped cream, attempting to recreate the look of the unique candies.