devin’s whiskey
craft distillers
Devin thought up a way to use fresh eating corn to make the whiskey in your hand. Until now, all corn used for whiskey/bourbon was dried field corn, almost all of it the same corn used for corn chips, ethanol, hog feed, etc. Devin Cain invented a way to make whiskey from fresh eating corn, the same corn you buy at the market to eat at home. It tastes a lot better.
Corn for other whiskies is left to dry on the stalk, losing all its sugars, then gets reconstituted for fermentation by cooking it in hot water to convert the starches back into sugar
With fresh corn, Devin can use the natural corn sugars that make corn so good to eat. He ferments corn niblets fresh off the cob. The flavors are way better. Naturally
Devin experimenting using a small Hoga potstill
Husking fresh corn
Fresh corn waiting to be shelled. Devin discards the cob & ferments the niblets
The first ever distillation of Devin's Corn Whiskey, using the Holstein lab still
The antique cognac still, formerly used for Germain-Robin brandy
Devin checking percent alcohol during a distillation run
Devin's whiskey coming off the still
How's the clarity?
Bottling devin's whiskey
Ansley Coale's tasting notes on devin's whiskey