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I mashed all rice batch starting right at 170 with optimash for <2 hours. Ended at 167. Then EC Kraus amylase for 2 hours at 150. Ended up with 63% efficiency. That's plenty good for me. The resulting beer is very encouraging. Essentially my old Sierra Nevada pale clone but now with all rice

I've used optimash in two recipes. Increased my efficiency didn't add any adjuncts for first time with GF batch.

This looks great. I've been brewing with 100% Eckert base and adjuncts. I recently started adding flaked corn to the bill. I'm using optimash at 170-175 for 2 hours then amylase from EC Kraus. Getting great efficiency but tons of trub. Surprised by kettle pic with hardly any trub. Must be...

Ok. My all rice lager was a huge success. I brewed a 3 gallon batch. Used 4 pounds of Eckert's vienna malt. I cereal mashed it at 180 for about an hour. Then i placed the mash in a BIAB in my igloo cooler and mashed at 150. I added my E.C. Krause diatase enzyme at 150F for 2 hours or more...

I didn't. Got poor efficiency. Just used more rice and rice syrup to get to projected gravity on subsequent lager where I used same technique. Bumped rice up to 4 lbs.

Just worked up a 3 gallon rest batch all ekhart rice malt and lundbergs rice syrup. Mashed 2 lbs rice malt at 180 for an hour dropped to 155 added diatase. Rest forb2 hours. Then took at grain bag and boiled and added hops. Man so much trube. Wow. Put in 3 gallon carboy. Down and dirty. No...

gotcha. I had such poor efficency with millet, that I presumed the same for rice. I'll back off of the grain bill; that'll make an easier brew day too. Thanks for the advice. h.

Mash 2 hours at 180 – 170F with Termamyl: biscuit rice malt - 5 lb (ekbrm) James' Brown rice malt - 2 lb (ekjbrm#2) biscuit rice malt - 2 lb (ekbrm#2) Add: 6 lbs generic brown rice syrup (Annapolis home brew) dark Belgian candi sugar - 1 lb 2 oz hallertau 1 x whirlfloc...

Ok. Thanks everyone. I've decided on my brew strategy for an all rice batch. since my millet pale ale nearly replicated my old barley beer in flavor, color, and all around awesomeness, I'm going to try to replicate my Vienna Lager. I've ordered the Termamyl from Annapolis. While there I...

Osedax: Can you elaborate on why you aren't brewing an all-rice beer? I am having some allergies to millet as well as barley and wheat. So, I am thinking about going to 100% rice as a last-ditch effort. Besides low diastatic power, is there a disadvantage to pale rice malt...

thx! for the great advice guys!!!!! What is the best source for enzymes? Glutarded-Chris pointed me to E.C. Kraus for the diatase I used (in abundance) for the all grain millet. I see that Adventures in Homebrewing carries both Termamyl (alpha amylase) and AMG-300L (beta amylase). I presume...

All: Thank you for helping me successfully brew an all millet pale ale. The beer turned out great thanks to this forum and thanks to glutardedChris in particular. Thank you. I am thinking about brewing an all rice lager I've brewed many lagers so I have a good grasp of recipe and...

my experience (N=1) aligns with Chris's. My wort was very very milky but it cleared up and the final product (in the keg) is no more cloudy than a barley-based beer. I stopped doing starch tests years ago, so I can't say whether I'm fully converting. I know that I've got beer in the keg and...

kegged. This beer tastes almost identical to my barley-based house pale ale from 2 years ago. I'll brew my Vienna lager / helles next. Final thoughts: wow that was a ton of work. And VERY expensive. Millet beer is as good as barley beer. I foresee a large commercial brewery entering this...

Dry hopped 1 oz Amarillo on Tuesday. I'll likely keg tomorrow. Reassembled my kegerator with new beer lines. Checking kegs for pressure and etc. feels like old times. Looking forward to tasting this beer!

Having an OG of 1.042 - 1.05x yields a great pale ale with barley based beers using US-05. I keep that yeast at 58-62F w target of 60F until final gravity of 1.010 or so then cold crash. Super crisp well attenuated beers w great body even at 1.042 OG. Under 1.042 and my beers would start to...

1. Recipe: 15 lbs grouse pale millet 2 lbs crystal 60L CMC 1 lbs grouse malted buckwheat 3 tablespoons E.C. Krause diatase 1 lbs Belgian dark sugar 1 oz cascade at 1 hr 30 minutes 1 oz pacifica at 1 hr 30 minutes 2 oz Amarillo at 45 minutes .5 oz cascade at 30 minutes 1 whirlfoc...

Chris: You read my mind. I was about to DM to ask what your gap was on buckwheat! thanks for the advice!

Thx for the advice! I've always pitched 2 US05s but I control temp at 59/60F which lessens blowoff threat. As to mill: I got a cereal killer. It's my weak link too. Wht mill do you use? But like you, I figure multiple passes if it doesn't do the job. It's a crappy mill. Very low quality out of...

Thx Chris for all the help. The prices are steep but it's fun being a part of discovering new techniques. I just placed an order for grouse and CMC malts.