Clearing wheat-heavy beer
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Derby Dabbler
Re: Clearing wheat-heavy beer
Other than oat husks the other thing I found with wheats is that a false bottom mash tun worked very. Much better than a stainless steel braid - which was hopeless.
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seymour
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Re: Clearing wheat-heavy beer
That makes sense, what with the increased surface area. A mashtun with hack-sawed copper tubing works great, too.Derby Dabbler wrote:Other than oat husks the other thing I found with wheats is that a false bottom mash tun worked very. Much better than a stainless steel braid - which was hopeless.
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Re: Clearing wheat-heavy beer
Or BIAB. With an artificial filter bed (of any sort) fine flours become much less of a problem.
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Re: Clearing wheat-heavy beer
+1 to seymours comment.seymour wrote:That makes sense, what with the increased surface area. A mashtun with hack-sawed copper tubing works great, too.Derby Dabbler wrote:Other than oat husks the other thing I found with wheats is that a false bottom mash tun worked very. Much better than a stainless steel braid - which was hopeless.
I now step-mash wheat beers in a LIDL boiler/mashtun with above filter (shown upside down).
I include a 40C step primarily to break down gums.
Interesting article: The science of step mashing
Re: Clearing wheat-heavy beer
Quess what - after all that it went clear (might be this lovely cold we've had) and I took the barrel on a trip out with the boys.
Their first taste of homebrew from me and they all put in orders for their birthday/wedding presents!
Their first taste of homebrew from me and they all put in orders for their birthday/wedding presents!
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Re: Clearing wheat-heavy beer
Well done that man!willc76 wrote:Quess what - after all that it went clear (might be this lovely cold we've had) and I took the barrel on a trip out with the boys.
Their first taste of homebrew from me and they all put in orders for their birthday/wedding presents!
