So I had 6 lbs of rice syrup laying around, and I decided to do a partial mash all rice batch with it.
The trouble with rice syrup is that it provides no body or flavor to the beer. The good thing about rice syrup is that it has no off flavors (unlike sorghum).
So I did a partial mash with the goal of adding flavor and body to the thin rice syrup base.
To get maximum body (dextrines) out of my mini mash I used only alpha amylase and did not use any glucoamylase.
I mashed 5 lbs of Eckert rice malts at 175 F, with 1 tbsp of Termamyl (heat stable alpha amylase) for 1 hour. This was added to 6 lbs of rice syrup and went on to the boil.
I would never do a mash like this for an all grain batch, as the result would be a very sweet beer with a high final gravity...but in this case it added exactly what the rice syrup was missing ( body and flavor).
This was a very easy way to make a high quality extract / partial mash batch.
I just tasted a sample after 2 weeks in the fermentor...I am quite excited about it, it is exelent.
I would recomend this as a great introduction to GF brewing. Easy brew day, with tasty results.
The trouble with rice syrup is that it provides no body or flavor to the beer. The good thing about rice syrup is that it has no off flavors (unlike sorghum).
So I did a partial mash with the goal of adding flavor and body to the thin rice syrup base.
To get maximum body (dextrines) out of my mini mash I used only alpha amylase and did not use any glucoamylase.
I mashed 5 lbs of Eckert rice malts at 175 F, with 1 tbsp of Termamyl (heat stable alpha amylase) for 1 hour. This was added to 6 lbs of rice syrup and went on to the boil.
I would never do a mash like this for an all grain batch, as the result would be a very sweet beer with a high final gravity...but in this case it added exactly what the rice syrup was missing ( body and flavor).
This was a very easy way to make a high quality extract / partial mash batch.
I just tasted a sample after 2 weeks in the fermentor...I am quite excited about it, it is exelent.
I would recomend this as a great introduction to GF brewing. Easy brew day, with tasty results.