This has become by far my favorite distilling channel. I really like the format. No nonsense and you are always actually 'doing' where other channels mostly talk about doing things. No joke, this is the best content around in my opinion. It gives me so many ideas. Thank you for all your hard work! I've watched every one of your videos in the last few days. This is not criticism ... have you considered going electric with you kettle? I think you would really appreciate the convenience, the versatility as well as the safety.
Thank you for your kind words it is so appreciated.And to answer your question is yes I am in the middle of building my PID controler I have all my parts for that hope to have completed soon.Then I will do some vedios of me learning how to use it could be a lot of fun!
The rice husks was a great idea. I did mine one time and broke my wooden paddle trying to stir it. Put the 6row and it took all night to drain. The second time I made this I added the oats in the cold water with the 6 row and then gradually heated the mash. The beta amylase helped and the second mash was way easier to drain. I will try your method next. Great videos, keep them coming!
I invested in a mixing drill and paint mixer. Saves your arms turning to jelly when dealing with heavy all grain mashes. Also made the mixing a lot faster and converted starches faster.
I was quite pleased for you how well the starches converted and thinned out your mash. Am very much looking forward to seeing how it ferments out as well as the distillation to the final product. Good on ya!!!
I've seen people press a brew-bag of wet grain in a fruit press to get as much liquid as possible separated from the grain husks, without a lot of added sparge water.
Hi Robert, fermentation started out real robust then calmed down haven't checked #'s yet but sure that distillation will be this weekend will put out vid of that. Cheers!!
Question on the conversation and water per oats ratio: Wouldn't more water (depending on how big of a cooler you have) have helped with the thickness before starch conversation? Would more water have hindered the enzymes in the process or helped?
That is a great question yes more water would help and sense making that oat whiskey I started using sebstar high temp enzyme its working range is 153-185 deg.
I am want to try an oat mash. The recipe I found for a 5 gallon wash is 1 1/2 lbs oats, 5lbs sugar, 1lb brown sugar and bread yeast. The concern I have is with the starch conversion but no mention of Amylase or anything and if the bread yeast will produce enough alcohol to make it worthwhile to run. Any suggestions would e greatly appreciated.
Hi Eric, first i would like to say is Oat whiskey is fantastic. I know 1 pound of sugar in 1 gallon of water will give you about 30 points and I think oats is around 1 pound of oats per gallon of water is like 24 points and in the recipe you have you need something to convert the oat starches into sugars like you said Amylase or malted barley hope this helped cheers
Try and avoid any Zinc or Galvanized mixing paddles. Stick with stainless paddle/mixers. It really depends on the mashing environment Ph. "The galvanizing on the surface of the Iron contains Zinc, which is a toxic metal that leaches badly under hot acidic conditions." homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2719 It's just another thing to think about and to proceed with caution/safety during the mashing environment. Cheers Scott Allen!
Did you add any heat after you added your barley? You were at the bottom end of the analyses working range. If you did not add hot water, you may not have converted all of the starch from your oats.
I wish you would show the clever things that you have made. It looks like the sieve you made was very ingenious, but you don't show it at all. I see a bucket suspended by bolts(?) over another bucket that then has a spigot which you then drain the wort into a third bucket. Obviously there's more to this and I want to learn from your ideas. Please don't take your ideas to make things easier for granted. I think I would benefit greatly if I knew what you have created. Making a mash is really not that interesting compared to you other ideas.
Hi Halan i used 8 lbs oat meal 3 lbs 6 row 2 lbs honey 2 lbs rice hulls (next time 1 lbs of rice hulls) DADY yeast about 2 table spoon watch tonight's video something in it that will really help 7:00 EST Cheers!!
@@stillworksandbrewing Hey Randy, I found another oat recipe that calls for toasting them prior to mashing in. However the oats are just a small part of the recipe. What do you think would be the effect here with this recipe since oats are the PRIMARY grain???
@@Rubberduck-tx2bh I think a lite toast and lite oak it could be very tasty i seem to think would be maybe a nutty taste might have to take some oat and toast it and check it out
