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  Strategies for Making SG Measurements on Corn Meal Mash

  Posted by nepa still chillin on January 20, 2014 at 10:52 pm

  We are fermenting on grain at my distillery and I’ve never done a mash like this,

  Its 100% corn meal, we are using enzymes but once it cools and we pitch I cant seem to get a ” Real ” SG reading.

  The liquid is just to thick and has too many dissolved solids in it I feel to get an accurate SG reading.

  I can use calculators but I still like the old school way of density reading, is there a technique to get this or is this type of brew impossible to read with SG?

  nepa still chillin replied 10 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  johninwv

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  January 21, 2014 at 4:13 pm

  We use a handheld kitchen strainer…like something to sift flour. Then take a reading.

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  hedgebird

  Member

  January 21, 2014 at 5:44 pm

  we use a coffee filter inside of strainer. just need a few drops for refractometer and iodine test.

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  nepa still chillin

  Member

  January 21, 2014 at 10:09 pm

  Cool, pretty straight forward.

  Hopefully I can find our Refrac somewhere so I don’t need so much

  Thanks guys

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