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    Homebrew Recipes from my Commercial Brewery!

    Hi everyone, I guess it's been a while since I've logged in here! Pretty wild to see one of my old posts still stickied here. Anyway, I recently opened a new dedicated gluten-free brewery (all by myself this time, no partners or investors!) called Mutantis Brewery and Bottle Shop. Located in...
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    Millet Mash - Infusion vs steps

    For what it's worth, I cannot represent billl's results. I mash out and sparge hot (180 degrees) every time and my runnings never test positive for starch. However, there was one time I did a batch sparge with 195 degree water (HLT water dropped below temp probe so the heater stayed on and...
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    Single Infusion Mash for Millet? Too good to be true?

    The stuff from EC Kraus works fine.
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    Millet: the grind

    I grind at around .63mm, or around .025 inches. Single pass. I used to crush finer and slowly backed down to this level without seeing any drop of efficiency. This is not quite the closest gap on a monster mill MM-2. Twila grinds at .65mm and her mill produces a very nice crush at this...
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    All Grain with Millet: Epic Fail. Thoughts?

    That's less than 1 qt/lb of grain. Without sufficient water the grain enzymes will not enter solution and convert the starches. What was your sparging method like? You're not going to have any luck with 1 gallon tests. One problem is that you won't have enough grain to set up a proper...
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    Would this perhaps work with a millet mash?

    Completely unnecessary. Decoction mashes with millet malt are a waste of time. If you don't believe me, try my method and try the decoction method and compare your yields. I used to do it the hard way--I had some crazy 6-step mash that I would have sworn was necessary. Translating to a 15...
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    Single Infusion Mash for Millet? Too good to be true?

    No cereal mash with the buckwheat, correct. The mash liquefies within 10 minutes, usually within 5. I aim for around 1.5 qt/lb of strike water. My batch sparges usually fill my MLT about 75% of its capacity. Underletting creates an upwelling that flushes the bottom-most grains; in my...
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    Use of alpha-amylase

    The gelatinization thing is flat-out wrong. The starches in Grouse millet malt will gelatinize and convert at normal barley temperatures. I have mashed as low as 148°F with no loss in efficiency. I ****NEVER**** mash hotter than 158°F, so can we please stop perpetuating the myth that millet...
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    Where to Buy

    www.glutenfreehomebrewing.org/store/ has everything you could want for GF homebrewing.
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    Single Infusion Mash for Millet? Too good to be true?

    I should also note, on the pilot system I wrap the Blichmann button-louver fals bottom in a nylon mesh bag. Learned the hard way on the first brew day that Chugger pump inlets are easily clogged by stray grains. We haven't settled on the best solution for those 3 mm gaps on our 15 bbl MLT, but...
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    Single Infusion Mash for Millet? Too good to be true?

    I can confirm that single-infusion works. For best results, use an amylase addition as directed. At Ghostfish we do a 2-hour mash from between 152°F to 158°F, and I honestly can't say that I have noted any major differences. I crush the grain with a 2-roller mill and seem to be getting good...
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    Help a New GF Brewery!

    Hey folks, just wanted to let everyone know--we've only got a few hours to go on this and we're SO CLOSE to our goal! If you can help at all, even $10, it might mean the difference between us getting $30,000 or $0. We are seriously making gluten-free beer using the best of the ingredients and...
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    Help a New GF Brewery!

    Long time no see, fellow gluten-free homebrewers! Some of you may know me, some of you may not, it's been a while since I was posting obsessively here. The reason: I've turned pro, and my brewery is a few months away from opening! We're called Ghostfish Brewing Company, and we are...
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    Dialing in the Millet Mash

    So guys, I've run a series of tests recently, and while I've concluded that I need to improve my equipment setup to achieve proper temp control (mashing 0.5 gallon batches on the stove or in the oven just WILL NOT have enough temp stability to achieve very meaningful results!), I have discovered...
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    Opinions on best lauter tun for GF

    Depends on how fine you grind. I've heard from an inside source that a large brewery successfully used millet malt on their regular pilot system, milled to .7 mm, and did not require any rice hulls for the sparge. I'm about to upgrade my setup to a proper MLT with a false bottom, but it...
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    Clarity-Ferm, Gluten Testing, and Gluten Sensitivity

    Robodeath, have you tried Corona? Because it passes the same tests that Omission does. Celiacguy, I am well aware of how the enzyme works against that peptide sequence, as I think I made quite clear. Yes, the enzyme hydrolyzes the QQPFP peptide sequence such that an R5 competitive ELISA test...
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    Clarity-Ferm, Gluten Testing, and Gluten Sensitivity

    I think you've got a few things wrong here, mate. That's an oversimplification. First of all, they have not produced an exhaustive list of peptides derived from grains that can trigger an immune response in Celiac disease. Second of all, the leading hypothesis about non-Celiac gluten...
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    Do malted grains taist different?

    Well for starters, you can't replicate the flavor of crystal malt without malting a grain, and at least with millet, the flavor of the roasted grain is also quite different. I notice it less with buckwheat and sorghum; there may be some difference, but the flavor of buckwheat is so mild it's...
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    Dialing in the Millet Mash

    Guess I should get a refractometer. But I did check and re-check each batch of wort multiple times to confirm that it was not just me misreading the damn thing. I know starch is insoluble, but what about dextrins? I'm entirely sure I didn't simply get *no* conversion, because there was...
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    Dialing in the Millet Mash

    Nothing in these trials is meaningless. If unconverted starch pushes up the SG compared to wort that has achieved close to full conversion, then that tells me something important, namely that I can gauge conversion roughly by SG. Most people don't take SG in the middle of a mash because most...
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