Making a Wooden Mash Paddle | All-Grain Home Brewing

Following the making of my mash/lauter tun, I need a mash paddle to stir the grains into the mash water for making beer. My brother and I previously made one years ago when he got into homebrewing, so I figured I’d document the process this time around for those interested.

For all-grain brewing, one of the steps in the brewing process is to steep your crushed grain in hot water, which extracts the sugars from the grain to create wort. When mixing the grain with water, it has a tendency to form dough balls, where the interior of the ball does not get wet. This leads to poor efficiency of sugar extraction from the grain, so a mash paddle has a specific shape to avoid this pitfall. In addition to being essentially a large spatula, the holes in the paddle allow for better breakup of dough balls, for better incorporation of the grain into the water.

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