So i had left over whole wheat berries from the feed store, was poking around the hard water thread....thought damn i could just do a cereal mash and use the left over alpha amylase i have to convert...
so recipe for a 5 gal batch was..
6.25lb's whole wheat berries
6 pounds whole barley
4 pounds sucrose....hoping to get 1.102 and 13.x% alcohol
i just threw it in 150f water, and only got 1.010 coming out the mash tun, at mash temp granted, but still...thought i'd do a iodine test on it...
The iodine is clear though, lol
so now i have two options....
1) Dump it, wouldn't have used the crap anyway...
2) Realize i think i have to get the starch to gel for the iodine test to work and turn blue, dump the mash tun contents back into the brew pot and bring to a boil...prove it, trying before and after adding more alpha amylase to the tun...
does malting lower the gelling temp of grains like barley and wheat? maybe my alpha has been sitting in the fridge too long, like 5 years....
so recipe for a 5 gal batch was..
6.25lb's whole wheat berries
6 pounds whole barley
4 pounds sucrose....hoping to get 1.102 and 13.x% alcohol
i just threw it in 150f water, and only got 1.010 coming out the mash tun, at mash temp granted, but still...thought i'd do a iodine test on it...
The iodine is clear though, lol
so now i have two options....
1) Dump it, wouldn't have used the crap anyway...
2) Realize i think i have to get the starch to gel for the iodine test to work and turn blue, dump the mash tun contents back into the brew pot and bring to a boil...prove it, trying before and after adding more alpha amylase to the tun...
does malting lower the gelling temp of grains like barley and wheat? maybe my alpha has been sitting in the fridge too long, like 5 years....