stuck mash

[slurp the apprentice]

This always happens as i get to the last 6 kilo of a 25kg bag of pale malt obviously this is where all the flour ends up in the bag.I usually get round this by aborting the use of my copper manifold bailing out the mash and putting a large seive over the tap tube inside the cool box and replacing the mash and continue sparging but all this is time consuming and a loose a little mash efficiency.The grain i have been using is warminster but i have had the same experience with other suppliers.So is there any suggestions ? i was thinking whether i just need to seive the flour out before adding the grain to the cool box but i dont know if i would just be adding a higher proportion of empty husks and end up with a worse mash efficiency

[Grahame]

I'm sorry if this is an obvious answer, but how about giving the sack a good shake before each use? This will distribute the flour around all the grain in the bag. Obviously shaking a 25Kg sack would be hard but you could lay it down and shoogle it from side to side??

G.

[maxashton]

shoogle it from side to side??

I must get some of your recipes.

[oblivious]

Oat husk from hop and grape would also help, available Here

[Grahame]

shoogle it from side to side??

I must get some of your recipes.

Couldn't think of the technical term!!

G.

[maxashton]

Shoogling IS the new technical term.

[richard_senior]

Shoogling IS the new technical term.

I shoogled my missus last night. She didn't like it.

[Gurgeh]

tip the last bit of your old sack into your new sack

[Damfoose]

Do that a few times and wont you end up with a 25KG bag of flour ?
Suppose you could give it to the wife for bread making when you accomplish the 25kg bag

[slurp the apprentice]

tip the last bit of your old sack into your new sack

yes i could do this but somewhere down the line could end up with a large bag of flour[perhaps that mighy be an answer but where could i sell 25kg bag of flour?]
I did wonder if i place a bed of marbles over the copper manifold before i added the grain hopefully avoiding the flour clogging the manifold
Instead of shooling i could split the whole grain into 1kg bags then add the left over flour evenly into each seperate bag but not sure i could be arsed

[agentgonzo]

I'd recommend against shaking or shoogling the bag each time you brew. It'll just -hake the flour out of the husks and make it settle out even more.

I've not had problems with stuck mashes at the end of a bag (also used warminster). How far apart are the slits on your copper manifold? I got stuck mashes when I first got my MT and manifold, but a hacksaw soon saw to that (sorry, no pun intended). Slits should be no further than 1cm apart, and the closer the better. Mine are about 7-8mm apart. I could have got them closer but my arm got tired.

[Gurgeh]

Do that a few times and wont you end up with a 25KG bag of flour ?
Suppose you could give it to the wife for bread making when you accomplish the 25kg bag

only if she gives you a shoogle

[Aleman]

Or buy a mill and crush your own . . . that way you have no flour left at the end of the sack

[Frisp]

Shoogle, - An old Scots word for Shaking.

Have you ever heard of Shoogly furniture? It is a little known fact that the now famous Shaker Furniture was named by a Scot traveling the mid west of America and it was he who coined it Shoogly furniture which was later translated into the English Shaker !!! you will find that in the late 60's most Scottish furniture was in fact Shoogly

Another example being the renownre county and Western Singer "Shoogly Stevenson" fae Blantyre, his sister later moved to wales in search of work and when her son likewise took to the stage he called himself Shakey in honour of his uncle Shoogly

Latley it has been reported in some quarters that A certain Mr Brown has been making much use of the word. It has infact replaced the word "Prudence" when refering to the economic state of the country.

[tatlock]

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Shoggle

Shog"gle\, v. t. [See Shog, Joggle.] To joggle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Pegge.

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