White rice as fermentable?

[robertbartsch]

Anyone using rice?

Does it need to be mashed?

Thx..

 

[mkling]

It needs to be both gelatinized and mashed. You can do the gelatinizing by either what is called a cereal mash or by just cooking it normally in boiling water first before mashing.

 

[PintOfBitter]

very common adjunct - you need to either cook it, cereal mash it, or buy it pre-gelatinized. You also must mash it with some high diastatic grain such as 2-row or 6-row. You can find a lot of recipes on here that use rice - BierMuncher's cream of three crops calls for minute rice, i believe, and my Neuro Fuzzi is made with regular cooked rice.

 

[robertbartsch]

..so if you don't mash cooked rice with barley grain, for example, the rice starch cannot convert?

 

[mkling]

..so if you don't mash cooked rice with barley grain, for example, the rice starch cannot convert?

Right. The cooking loosens up the starches making it easier for the malt enzymes to get at 'em. Then the mashing converts them.

 

[android]

just buy the minute rice. that can be mashed right along with your other malts. works great and from my experience has the same potential gravity as flaked rice.

 

[ChshreCat]

As the droid mentions, flaked rice is also an option and can be picked up at most brew shops.

 

[robertbartsch]

So flaked rice does not need to be mashed?

 

[neovox]

From what I've read flaked grains are pre-gelatinized and don't require a separate cereal mash. But I've just used Minute Rice like android said.

 

[cheezydemon3]

So flaked rice does not need to be mashed?

No, mashed rice doesn't need to be flaked.