Hello All,
Any suggestions for lautering very large beers (larger than 1.095) in a 7 BBL system without a steam jacketed mash tun? I can lauter beers up to 1.075ish in an hour or less with 181F sparge water but anything in the 1.095+ range takes about 3 hours. I have considered rice hulls (I use them in my wheat beers) but I don't think this would help with the compaction on the mash grates. Once the bottom gets compacted, even at a low flow rate, it's impossible to get it to move quickly enough to raise the mash temp into the 170s...
Any suggestions? Should I use much hotter sparge water and maybe flush some in the bottom at first? It's such a pain I'm considering malt extract ;-)
Thanks,
John
Any suggestions for lautering very large beers (larger than 1.095) in a 7 BBL system without a steam jacketed mash tun? I can lauter beers up to 1.075ish in an hour or less with 181F sparge water but anything in the 1.095+ range takes about 3 hours. I have considered rice hulls (I use them in my wheat beers) but I don't think this would help with the compaction on the mash grates. Once the bottom gets compacted, even at a low flow rate, it's impossible to get it to move quickly enough to raise the mash temp into the 170s...
Any suggestions? Should I use much hotter sparge water and maybe flush some in the bottom at first? It's such a pain I'm considering malt extract ;-)
Thanks,
John
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