Mashing With Rice

[Tony]

I was been doing a bit of reading on rice in beers giving a nice clean dry finosh and would like to try it in a pale ale for my keg.

I have a couple of questions for those who have tried this though.

How much is a good amount to use? I was thinking 10%

How do i add it?

I was thinking of i ran the rice through the mill to break it up a bit and boiled it up for 15 min and them just poured it into the mash.

If i mashed in at 50 to 52 deg for a protein rest, i could do my rice boil and add the required amount of boiling hot rice liquor to raise the temp to mashing temp.

amy sugestions?

cheers

 

[Linz]

Skip the hassle and just use flaked rice from the health food isle at woolies/coles/etc.....

No ceral mash reqd...no messing with multiple pots....just dump them in with the rest of the mash....

Ive had a beer(ale) made by Beerslayer with 500gm to a batch...just right I reckon...

 

[Jazman]

been listing to the podcast of craftbrewer and beer mafe with rice malt sem sto be crap with the fats oils ect but htat was just rice malt

 

[Tony]

wasnt goimg to use rice malt, just rice.

good tip linz, will look for it.

cheers

 

[Brewmaster808]

Just made one with rice used about 1/3 rice to 2/3 malt. What I found was that I need to add more of a specility grain to give taste, was very plain. The easy way I found to ceral mash it was grind rice and add so ground malt to a rice cooker.

 

[Linz]

Rice will dilute/remove both colour and flavour

 

[Vlad the Pale Aler]

Tony, this thread may be of interest, I can recommend the GT Rice Lager