[COHO] Rice Beer...what a mess

[mike t]

Bill- your response is anxiously waiting here:
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Cheers & Happy Labor Day
-Mike
 
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Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:19 AM
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Subject: [COHO] Rice Beer...what a mess
 
09-04-06
Hello group,
 
What to do?  My corn beer experiment went so well that the obvious next
step was a rice beer.  Right?  Wrong, geez what a mess.  I had a few
hours free yesterday and decided to brew some rice based beer to appease
some of my Coors and Bud swilling buddies.  I used short brown rice
because from my experience it gets less coagulated then white when
cooked.  I cooked 3 pounds in 3 gallons of water for 30 minutes thinking
that should water it down enough to help when I separated the fluid from
the enlarged, soft wet grain.  Wrong.  It turned into one big
gelatinized mass of goo. there was no way to sparge or even water it
down enough to strain off the grain and capture the starches and
enzymes.  I used a strainer with 1/8" holes and it still just sat there
quivering like jello.  It just stuck, literally to everything it
touched. I ended up putting it in a cloth bag and squeezing out as much
of the fluid as I could.  This could best be described as...Yuck.  I
mixed this with the wort from the 7 pounds of grain and boiled it up
using a batch of wet hops (4 pints by volume) I just harvested at a
friends house.  
 
Here is the problem.  I have 5 gallons of pretty thin brew.  I expected
a S/G of 1.050 (+ -).  I got 1.032.  I pitched in the yeast and it is
happily doing it's thing with a steady stream of bubbles drifting out of
the air lock.  
 
Should I:
 
1.       Dump this down the drain and never look at another grain of
rice
2.       Pull out a gallon or two, add 3 pounds of extract, boil it up,
cool it and add it back into the primary fermentor to raise the S/G?
3.       Let it just do its thing "as" is and if it turns out very badly
give it to my enemies and people I hate?
Whatta da ya thunk?
 
Bill 
 
William (Bill) Herrick
PO Box 7499
Bend, OR 97708
Wk: (541) 318-8862
Fax: (541) 318-0083
e-mail: huntkng at aol.com
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