Flaked Maize

[Scooby]

Do you guys use this ground or as is

I have always been supplied with flakes like small cornflakes and used them like that, I've got some from a different source and they are ground much finer than I would like to use, like sharp sand

[Bryggmester]

In the past I always used flaked maize which came as actual flakes but the last lot I got had more of a coarse powdery character. I brewed two days ago with 1/2 kilo in the mash and had no problems sparging. Looks like a promising brew.

[mysterio]

I use them as is, in little flakes.

[tubby_shaw]

Scooby,
I think that the stuff that you are describing as being like sharp sand is maize meal. Technicaly this is just roughly ground corn and is uncooked
Flaked maize is, I believe, cooked and passed through rollers to "flake" it
After saying that, I have used both with good results

[Scooby]

I ordered flaked maize and it's labeled as flaked maize.

It's on its way back

[Orfy]

Where's it from Scooby?

[Scooby]

Where's it from Scooby?

I've blasphemed the sacred supplier before and suffered the wrath of JHBF so I will................

[Scooby]

[Orfy]

Hop and Grape?

[Scooby]

[Orfy]

[DRB]

In beertools there is no flaked maize to pick from only flaked corn is that the same.

[tubby_shaw]

In beertools there is no flaked maize to pick from only flaked corn is that the same.

Yes same stuff

[DRB]

Nice one

[RabMaxwell]

Yes i know the stuff the last batch of flaked maize i got from Hop & Grape before i started buying 25 kg sacks was ground to a powder. I got a stuck mash with it the second time i used it i made sure i put it in last on top of the grain. If you use pumps in your brewing setup & put it in first it goes to the bottom then your pump sucks it in causing problems