Brewing with wheat
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Brewing with wheat
I’m going to take a shot at a raspberry wheat this weekend to get bottled up for summer. A chocolate stout too if I’m really efficient (sneaky).
I haven’t brewed much with wheat before, so I was wondering folks experience with high wheat % in the grain bill. Mostly concerned about stuck sparge. I was thinking 30-35% wheat and the remaining 2-row.
Anyone ever have issues at that proportion of wheat?
Thanks!
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I haven’t brewed much with wheat before, so I was wondering folks experience with high wheat % in the grain bill. Mostly concerned about stuck sparge. I was thinking 30-35% wheat and the remaining 2-row.
Anyone ever have issues at that proportion of wheat?
Thanks!
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Re: Brewing with wheat
Yup, a stuck mash is definitely a possibility depending on your setup. Always good to have some rice hulls on hand just in case. I've never had any issues after using them.
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Re: Brewing with wheat
We haven't run into a stuck sparge yet, but we tend to get terrible efficiency when we brew with a high percentage of wheat, for whatever reason.
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Re: Brewing with wheat
Use rice hills and you should be fine. I've done a few wheat beers and never had tooany problems. Did a 50% rye beer once and that was a nightmare
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Re: Brewing with wheat
Just did a wheat beer on the weekend. Wheat was 47% of the grain bill. Rice hulls all the way!
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Re: Brewing with wheat
wheat is smaller than barley so you want to mill on a tighter setting or use more to account for lower efficiency. You can adjust your water volumes in beersmith if you want or you can pre-soak the rice hulls and add them at the end of your mash. For amount briess recommends 2-5% percent of grist so for a normal beer a half pound is the upper end of the range.
http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Assets ... eHulls.pdf
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Re: Brewing with wheat
I brewed an 11 gal batch...I think I tossed in 3-4 handfuls to the empty cooler before I added my strike water.
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Re: Brewing with wheat
If you throw rice hulls in dry do they absorb about the same amount of your strike water lb for lb as malt? I guess I could just throw some in a pitcher with water and then strain them out to see how much they absorb rather than try to solve this via research and math.
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Re: Brewing with wheat
Took the rice hull advice, either it worked like a charm, or I didn't need them at all.
2.5 kg 2-row
2.5 kg wheat
0.225 kg crystal 40
0.225 kg flaked oats
Nice slow fly sparge @ ~1 liter/min, about 25min in total. No stuck sparge, and after getting the grain bed to set it was running nice and clear in about 10 min, then I started ti to the kettle.
Just tossed 4 handfuls of hulls into the mash tun as it was filling with water.
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2.5 kg 2-row
2.5 kg wheat
0.225 kg crystal 40
0.225 kg flaked oats
Nice slow fly sparge @ ~1 liter/min, about 25min in total. No stuck sparge, and after getting the grain bed to set it was running nice and clear in about 10 min, then I started ti to the kettle.
Just tossed 4 handfuls of hulls into the mash tun as it was filling with water.
Thanks!
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Re: Brewing with wheat
I've never bothered to even worry about it.MitchK wrote: ↑Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:32 pmIf you throw rice hulls in dry do they absorb about the same amount of your strike water lb for lb as malt? I guess I could just throw some in a pitcher with water and then strain them out to see how much they absorb rather than try to solve this via research and math.
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Re: Brewing with wheat
I feel your pain there...not sure why, and I dont have my system quite dialed in, but I think i ended up with something close to 54.5% brewhouse efficiency. brutal.darciandjenn wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:57 amWe haven't run into a stuck sparge yet, but we tend to get terrible efficiency when we brew with a high percentage of wheat, for whatever reason.
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Re: Brewing with wheat
do rice halls have any ""scientific"" additive to the brew or is it just a place holder with respects to the mash? aids in avoiding stuck mashes ?
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Re: Brewing with wheat
From what I've gathered, they just help take the place of the hull that regular barley malt has. The hulls help create a filter as your grain best sets while you are lautering. The wheat has no hull and it sticks together pretty good when you mash in...as I learned this past weekend. So the rice hulls really just help make that filer so the wheat doesn't clog things up on ya.MatthewRichard wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:18 pmdo rice halls have any ""scientific"" additive to the brew or is it just a place holder with respects to the mash? aids in avoiding stuck mashes ?
I'm sure someone else could offer a more clear explanation.
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Re: Brewing with wheat
nah, that makes perfect sense ! Thank you
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