oldschool
Well-Known Member
After i started this thread, i visited a small local brewery to buy some equipment. They don't do any testing like this.
I mash a minimum of 45 minutes and up to 90 minutes for my dryer beers. My FG's finish between 1.003 and 1.012.
Never been a drop of iodine in my brewshop. Seems a needless extra step. I've also never seen iodine testing being done in local micro's. Refractometers...yes. But that's more for record keeping and tracking batch consistency and not to get a "yes or no" on whether there mash session was a success.
I say leave the iodine for treating minor cuts and simplify your brew process.
I mash a minimum of 45 minutes and up to 90 minutes for my dryer beers. My FG's finish between 1.003 and 1.012.
Never been a drop of iodine in my brewshop. Seems a needless extra step. I've also never seen iodine testing being done in local micro's. Refractometers...yes. But that's more for record keeping and tracking batch consistency and not to get a "yes or no" on whether there mash session was a success.
I say leave the iodine for treating minor cuts and simplify your brew process.
I dont think this is about not converting the mash, but incomplete conversion. I am interested in how long it takes to convert my mash, I want to get some #s. If I am fully converted at 30 mins, I wont mash for 60 obviously.
I will be using Kaisers sheet, iodine and testing PH (digital) for my upcoming mashes to get some #s to work with.
Has anyone here had a mash fail to convert?
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