Rice Hulls or no Rice Hulls

zman · 02-19-2009, 08:31 PM

Hazzah!!! I finally found ale recipe that I can use all Liberty Hops for. I am just wondering if I should throw #2 rice hulls in the mix for this recipe. I am batch sparging. Thoughts?

TIA

Zman

American Wheat
#5 Pale Malt
#5 Wheat Malt
1.5 Vienna Malt
1 oz Liberty @60
1 oz Liberty@20

mash@ 152
Wyeast 1010

slimer · 02-19-2009, 08:36 PM

1# to 1/2# is my usual amount for a wheat YMMV

**GilaMinumBeer** · 02-19-2009, 08:36 PM

2# is a lot of Rice Hulls.

Prolly won;t need them but 1/2lb wont hurt.

McKBrew · 02-19-2009, 08:37 PM

You definitely do not need 2# of them. I'd go with the above suggestion and use a half pound.

jvetter · 02-19-2009, 08:41 PM

I generally only use rice hulls when I'm either using a sticky adjunct (e.g. wheat or rye), thick mash, or when maxing out my mash kettles grain capacity. These are all times when you would need to worry about a stuck mash.

As stated by the others, 2# is way too much.

zman · 02-19-2009, 08:45 PM

Schweet. thanks for the advice. I may go 3/4 just to be safe. I did #2 with a Pumkin but just wanted to make sure..