This didn’t go so well last week. I modified our successful riced ‘Bud Clone’ which is essentially on a % GU (gravity unit basis):
65% Briess 6-row or Pilsen
30% Flaked Corn
5% Carapils
and I turned it into:
65% Briess 6-row or Pilsen
30% Flaked Rice
5% Carapils
I did an infusion mash to 155 for 1 hour rest. This is where things went wrong. Unlike the Corn version, RIMS was impossible with this. It ended up being a lot of scraping the bottom of the mash-tun to get anything to drain.
After I got it sparged and boiled, when it was time to cool with our new ‘Therminator’, the 0.5mm pored trub filter gummed up. I had to bypass it and go directly to the Therminator, which thankfully gave no problems.
It ended up with a gravity of 1.052 which was within reason and was soon fermenting fine – though I haven’t tasted it yet.
Next time I will either use rice hulls to get some porosity in the grain bed or reduce the amount of rice…or both.
It was a cluster regardless.