The one that said "you have two pounds of rye in your grist, use some rice hulls!"
It was a 13.5-pound grist and I barely had room in my mash tun though, so I figured 2 pounds. No big deal. The barley hulls will take care of it.
Anyway now I have a stuck (or at least very very slow) sparge. Is there anything that can be done other than to just wait until it trickles out 6.5 gallons of wort??
Last edited by bernerbrau; 08-02-2009 at 07:29 PM.
Reason: redundancy
Same thing happened to me yesterday with some wheat. I blew back through the hose a couple times, that got it going. But it was a little slower than my normal lauters.
I'd like to know an exact method for determining when & how much wheat or rye, etc., requires rice hulls or some different approach to lautering. I've done 5 AG batches so far, and among them has been a hefeweizen with 4 pounds of wheat malt in a 9.5 lb. grain bill, and a rye IPA with 2 lbs. rye in a 14.5 lb. bill. After reading a bunch of stuff on the forums, I decided not to use the rice hulls.....and I had no problems with either batch. Both seemed to lauter just as freely as the other beers. And yet- there does seem to be a stuck sparge problem associated with these grains. I'd just like to be able to know when it's me that's going to have the problem.
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I mean the OD of my hose is smaller than the ID of my ball valve. I have a Home Depot two blocks away, but I've been drinking and don't really want to drive.
Should have listened to that little voice.
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