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Sometimes, when I mash too long (more than 90 minutes), I get a stuck-mash. Its as if my grain bed gels-up, like pudding or cold oatmeal. I have found that using rice-hulls or a more coarse grind can help reduce the effect. If you do an iodine test (with idophor) you can determine if the conversion is done. Once it is done, waiting any longer won't make ...

With a barley wine isn't the major issue going to be sparging not mashing? Mashing is pretty straight forward, but getting that much sugar off that much grain is usually a pain. When I brewed an all-grain barley wine with a friend the mashing was easy. I think he used 90 minutes for mashing as well. Sparging took forever. With a fly sparge and using a ...

Yes, mashing for longer than 12 hours may not be good for the beer, particularly if the temperature is allowed to drop during that time. (As anyone who has left a mash for that length of time and taken a sniff will confirm!) In this case with so much grain you could safely go for a 2 or 3 hour mash, to be sure of complete conversion. since the water to ...