Help on rice hulls

[Murray]

I want to make a recipe and it calls for rice hulls. I cannot find these in my home brew store (I live in London, UK). Is there something I can substitute? Are rice hulls used for flavour or sugars, or are they used for keeping the bed going given the recipe also calls for flaked wheat?

 

[govner1]

Rice hulls don't add anything to your wort, BUT, they are very helpful in preventing a stuck sparge when your grain bill has wheat, flaked or rolled oats, etc, which tend to create a gelatinous mass In the bottom of your tun around your manifold or false bottom.

 

[Murray]

Is there anything else I can use, because I can't find rice hulls.

 

[shadows69]

Minute rice, I use it all the time. Use the quantity as you would rice hulls.

 

[Glynn]

post the recipe. I made a wheat beer yesterday using 7 lbs of wheat, so i used 8 oz of hulls. if you only have one lb of flaked or so you might not need it