- Joined
- May 9, 2015
- Messages
- 465
- Reaction score
- 143
I know the issue of cereal mashes, decoctions, protein rests, etc. is involved with raw wheat. But I've never used it until this weekend's planned brew. My searching on this site hasn't really answered my main concern, how to split the mashing up. The recipe is basically 5lbs 2 row, 2.5 lbs raw wheat, 1.5 red wheat malt, .5 lb carapils, .5 lb oats, .5 lb rice hulls. I am using a recirculating ebiab system, but if need be I can mash in a cooler then just boil in the electric kettle. My question is how to treat the raw wheat. I usually get my water additions squared away, then just do a full volume biab. I don't think that's going to be the best. Interested in experienced biabers opinions on how I should approach this for max efficiency and taste. I was thinking perhaps I could get the kettle up to protein rest temp then dump the milled wheat and rice hulls in the bag and recirc for 20-30 min, then ramp it up to strike temp and add the remainder of the grist...