The Wheat of Doom

[Beerstein]

Im refining a recipe that uses some unmalted spring wheat.

So i got really frustrated with my malt muncher tonight and threw the wheat berries into the blender, then into my spike mash pot. This wheat is 25% of my recipe.

I think Im doomed.


(yes, i used rice hulls and enzymes on this.)

 

[Miraculix]

So what's exactly the issue?

 

[Beerstein]

Ive never mashed with Near flour like wheat. Im hoping it will drain.

 

[Miraculix]

I do it all the time, up to 50% wheat flour. But I biab...

 

[Beerstein]

This is a spike mash bucket. I let it mash overnight. Pulled the bin up to drain. It's draining....just very slowly. But I have all day.

 

[Beerstein]

I let the bucket drain for about six hours. I tried compressing the grain bed, but that didn't go very far. Mash efficiency turned out to be about like 85% +/- 2%.