Rice Hulls | 0.5 lb bag

Rice Hulls are a simple but extremely useful brewing aid that helps improve mash drainage and lautering, particularly when brewing with high percentages of wheat, oats, rye, or other grains that can create a sticky or compact grain bed.

Rice Hulls are the outer husks of rice and are essentially neutral in the brewing process. They contribute no meaningful flavor, color, or fermentable sugars to your beer. Instead, they remain relatively firm in the mash and help create additional space between the grains, allowing wort to flow more easily through the grain bed.

When Should You Use Rice Hulls?

Rice Hulls are particularly helpful when brewing with grains that have little or no husk material of their own, including Wheat Malt, Rye Malt, Oat Malt, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Flaked Rye, and Flaked Barley.

Adding Rice Hulls can help:

• Improve wort flow during lautering
• Reduce the chance of a stuck mash or stuck sparge
• Keep the grain bed from becoming overly compact
• Make high-wheat, high-oat, and high-rye recipes easier to lauter
• Improve drainage without changing the flavor or color of your beer

They are especially useful when brewing Hazy IPA, NEIPA, Wheat Beer, Witbier, Roggenbier, Rye IPA, Oatmeal Stout, and other recipes containing substantial amounts of huskless or flaked grains.

How Much Should You Use?

Rice Hulls can be used at up to approximately 5% of the total grain bill. You generally don't need to be overly precise—a few handfuls added to the mash can make a noticeable difference when working with a sticky grain bill.

For especially wheat-, oat-, or rye-heavy recipes, increase the amount as needed to create a loose, well-draining grain bed.

Why Use Rice Hulls?

• Helps prevent stuck mashes and sparges
• Improves mash and grain-bed drainage
• Particularly useful with wheat, oats, and rye
• Great for recipes containing large amounts of flaked grain
• Adds no meaningful flavor or color
• Adds no meaningful fermentable sugars
• Does not change the intended malt profile of your beer
• Simple and inexpensive brewing insurance for difficult grain bills
• Recommended usage: up to approximately 5% of the grain bill

For all-grain brewers working with wheat, oats, rye, or large amounts of flaked grain, Rice Hulls are one of the easiest ways to help prevent lautering problems. They don't change your recipe—they simply help your wort flow through the grain bed more easily.

** You may not know it, but you've probably had rice beer. Most Japanese beers like Sapporo, Kirin and Asahi are rice-based and even Budweiser uses rice along with barley.

Recommended Usage: up to 5%

Flaked Ingredients are always packaged separately from other grain in your order.

Rice hulls, for use as a filtration or lautering aid in brewing. Can also be used when pressing fruit to add bulk and increase juice runoff.

Rice Hulls are always packaged separately from other grain in your order.