William's Whiskey Kit

• Save time, make the wort in under an hour

• Barrel age in a bottle - exclusive toasted oak sticks fit into any beer or spirit bottle

• Save money, bottle aging saves the cost of an oak barrel

Our Whiskey Kit is the first whiskey kit that does not require mashing, as it includes 12 pounds of malt extract made from 70% barley malt and 30% flaked corn. This results after fermentation in a wash (distilling speak for fermented wort) with the malt character of a malt whiskey, diluted a bit by the softer flavor of corn, to give a finished whiskey a softer edge, like it was mixed with 30% bourbon. If you like both whiskey and bourbon, we think this is a nice blending of both styles.

All you do is boil 5 gallons of water for a few seconds, stir in the malt extract and brewing sugar, let cool, and add the included 25 grams of dry whiskey yeast to start the ferment. Mashing and sparging are not needed, Then once the final graviity of 1.008 or less is reached, distill with your distilling equipment, which means you will need a Mash & Boil, Digiboil, Brewzilla, Anvil Foundry, or similar system with a pot still column and distilling lid. Click here for a suitable system.

Once distilled, age with the included toasted oak sticks, which will fit into your bottle to eliminate the need for an expensive oak barrel. We recommend 2 years of aging for the best flavor. Produces 72 to 84 ounces of finished 90 proof whiskey.

Includes 12 pounds of malt/corn extract, 2 pounds of brewing sugar, 25 grams of whiskey yeast, and toasted oak sticks for bottle aging.

What do I need to make this kit?

If you are already a brewer or wine maker, you probably have some of the items below:

A Fermenter, like our item E82

An Alcometer, like our item T41

A Hydrometer, like our item T43

Distilling equipment, like our item Z89

Bottling equipment, like a bottle capper and caps (or use a 1 gallon glass jug with screw cap for bulk aging)

Click to download the instructions in pdf format.