My grain bill was
10 lb 2 row
2 lb wheat
.5 lb c120
.5 lb Dextrine
stirred like mad when adding grain to 17.25 qts water.
Mash temp was 152* after stirring.
60 minutes later barely a drop came out of the tun. I can usually blow into the valve and get it to release. Not this time even after several attempts, then trying to scrape the top of the false bottom with my paddle without luck then tried to thin out the mash with adding more water. Nothing worked. Had to dump the mash into my BK clean the false bottom and add the mash back into the Tun. Finally got it to drain. Sparged less water then planned since I already added some. Have no idea what happened. The 2 row was crushed at my LHBS as always, so the crush was the same. I guess I'll start using some rice hulls to help prevent this from happening again. Numbers came out Ok hopefully it wont affect the flavor much.......
10 lb 2 row
2 lb wheat
.5 lb c120
.5 lb Dextrine
stirred like mad when adding grain to 17.25 qts water.
Mash temp was 152* after stirring.
60 minutes later barely a drop came out of the tun. I can usually blow into the valve and get it to release. Not this time even after several attempts, then trying to scrape the top of the false bottom with my paddle without luck then tried to thin out the mash with adding more water. Nothing worked. Had to dump the mash into my BK clean the false bottom and add the mash back into the Tun. Finally got it to drain. Sparged less water then planned since I already added some. Have no idea what happened. The 2 row was crushed at my LHBS as always, so the crush was the same. I guess I'll start using some rice hulls to help prevent this from happening again. Numbers came out Ok hopefully it wont affect the flavor much.......