Brewed a 10gal wheat IPA this weekend with 40% wheat. Brewed same wort last weekend. Added a pound of rice hulls to each batch.
I run a direct fire recirculating mash tun (kettle) with Jaybird false bottom. I start heating my strike water in my HLT, then transfer to MLT and recirculate with water treatments and heat to get to strike temperature. Then I turn off the pump and add grain usually alternating between grain and rice hulls if I am using hulls. Stir it well and turn on the pump, slow at first to about half open for remainder of mash.
That is what I did last week. No problems at all. This week I noticed I hadn't accounted for the rice hulls in my strike water calculation so decided to add the hulls first with the salts, then circulate + heat to strike temperature.
Haha well I learned. Immediately stuck. I think the hulls alone must have flattened out on the fb into a perfect seal i had to stir and scrape the FB to get circulation going and keep at it all the way to strike temp.
I run a direct fire recirculating mash tun (kettle) with Jaybird false bottom. I start heating my strike water in my HLT, then transfer to MLT and recirculate with water treatments and heat to get to strike temperature. Then I turn off the pump and add grain usually alternating between grain and rice hulls if I am using hulls. Stir it well and turn on the pump, slow at first to about half open for remainder of mash.
That is what I did last week. No problems at all. This week I noticed I hadn't accounted for the rice hulls in my strike water calculation so decided to add the hulls first with the salts, then circulate + heat to strike temperature.
Haha well I learned. Immediately stuck. I think the hulls alone must have flattened out on the fb into a perfect seal i had to stir and scrape the FB to get circulation going and keep at it all the way to strike temp.