TasSpirits wrote:Hi Mate, I use 3L per KG, I would add some rice hulls and crush as fine as you can to improve efficiency. I don't mash out, but I do chill real quick, my thought on the grainbill is to ditch the expensive malts until you learn the unit, use a pale or pils malt to start with and get to know your tun, you can always blend later.
wynnum1 wrote:With AG Whisky i through you did not have to boil after mashing like when making beer.
tipsy wrote:wynnum1 wrote:With AG Whisky i through you did not have to boil after mashing like when making beer.
My response was for if Sparrow was using a Guten.
With my Braumeister which I think is the same as a Guten, if you don't boil you will end up with a lot of low gravity wort.
I've just found it easier to boil it down. Probably not best practice and it does show the limitations with these machines when making whiskey.
Edit: I'll add that there are workarounds like double mashing but I find them too much work.
Sparrow wrote:What's the reasoning for the low gravity wort with this style of mashing?
coffe addict wrote:I would have thought that reducing the water or increasing the grain in the guten or braumeister would still make for a higher sg?
coffe addict wrote:Ah ok I think I understand, I had assumed that the grain would be up around 12kg in the 20L.
In this case boiling to the sg up to 1065-1070 would be beneficial.
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