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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[@urbanmyth169]

What other woods would be good for this project?

[@GlennFrazeeYT]

Any close-grained woods without open pores, so woods like beech, birch, and poplar. I would avoid open-grained or porous woods like red oak.

[@brucecampbell8355]

This is incredible - It would cost me three or fingers to try and do this!

[@kiwiprouddavids724]

I'm just getting into distilling ,I'm going to cave a paddle from a hundred years old fence post from off the farm that's a NZ native that's a really had and dark wood ,I don't have to many tools I'm probably going to do it with a hand saw, hatchet and sandpaper ,it's going to take me a hell of a long time but sweet as, this is cool thoe I was thinking about holes but I think I might go without and more soon shaped , awesome video I wish I had the tools and skills you do

[@GlennFrazeeYT]

Thanks David!

[@renovasirumahsubsidi10]

Kamu menginspirasiku 😃😃😃

[@GlennFrazeeYT]

Thank you!

[@michaeljames3509]

Nice wall hanger. A 21st century, home made, homebrew, mash stirrer: Homer steel spackle stirrer, decent variable speed battery drill, two pieces of wood, four threaded S-hooks, two split ring pipe clamps, two pieces threaded rod, nuts and washers. No worry about those evil dough balls, and with the capability of continuous mash stirring, without the worry of bashing thermo-wells, internal fittings, etc.. Before building the auto-stirrer, purchase books that are about producing ale and lager, instead of books that are about producing homebrew style, distillers beer, that advertisers renamed, real ale. It is more interesting to produce ale and lager than it is to produce homemade, moonshiners beer, anyway.

[@GlennFrazeeYT]

Interesting take on the mash stirrer. Would save some wear on the old shoulders, that's for sure.