Well, that was an experience.
I brewed a 5.25 gallon batch of cream of 3 crops.
6lbs pale 2 row
2lbs flaked maize
1lb flaked rice
I read the whole one million pages on that in the recipe forum and I gathered the mash would be a sticky mess and added some rice hulls.
Beersmith said to use 11.25 quarts of strike water. No problem.
I may have made a mistake here, but decided to do a 1 gallon mash out. Ended up with a stuck/slow mash.
I figure this was my fault as I made a manifold from PVC and just cut slots in it with my porta-band saw. I had my doubts about the width of the slots from the get go. It took quite a while to mash out and I only ended up with 2.5 gallons of first runnings.
I put on some rubber gloves and yanked the manifold, drilled a bunch of 3/16" holes, re-installed it, added more rice hulls then sparged with 4.25 gallons.
The sparge ran very well after that. Boiled down and hit the OG.
I think I'm going to put some pipe in the mill tomorrow and slot it a little wider instead of using a band saw.
Going to do an AG Fat Tire clone Sunday.
I brewed a 5.25 gallon batch of cream of 3 crops.
6lbs pale 2 row
2lbs flaked maize
1lb flaked rice
I read the whole one million pages on that in the recipe forum and I gathered the mash would be a sticky mess and added some rice hulls.
Beersmith said to use 11.25 quarts of strike water. No problem.
I may have made a mistake here, but decided to do a 1 gallon mash out. Ended up with a stuck/slow mash.
I figure this was my fault as I made a manifold from PVC and just cut slots in it with my porta-band saw. I had my doubts about the width of the slots from the get go. It took quite a while to mash out and I only ended up with 2.5 gallons of first runnings.
I put on some rubber gloves and yanked the manifold, drilled a bunch of 3/16" holes, re-installed it, added more rice hulls then sparged with 4.25 gallons.
The sparge ran very well after that. Boiled down and hit the OG.
I think I'm going to put some pipe in the mill tomorrow and slot it a little wider instead of using a band saw.
Going to do an AG Fat Tire clone Sunday.