[COHO] Rice Beer...what a mess

Mon Sep 4 18:24:32 PDT 2006

goto silver moon and get two bags of the rice solids already
prepared...just be careful, last one I brewed was supposed to be my
own version of an Asahi (dry yeast etc...) but the rice solids are
potent and it ended up more like a tripeste BIG BEER

---- Original Message ----
From: miketaliercio at hotmail.com
To: coho at lists.bendtel.net
Subject: Re: [COHO] Rice Beer...what a mess
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:37:42 -0700

>Bill- your response is anxiously waiting here:
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>For those of you who haven't checked it out yet, please go to our new
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>Cheers & Happy Labor Day
>-Mike
> 
>-----Original Message-----
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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
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