I’ve read people rinse rice hulls before using them in the mash. Is it ok to rinse them with untreated tap water, or should I use spring water?
It would be a lot easier to rinse them out with my tap water since I have a sprayer doo dad attached to my sink, but I’m not sure because my town adds chemicals to the water.
I’ve never rinsed mine…not sure why you would.
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I read in a few places that they’re really dusty and should be rinsed. That would be cool if I don’t need to worry about it.
I haven’t used rice hulls for years but when I did I never rinsed them, I just accounted for them as grain and adjusted my water volume accordingly. I recall reading somewhere that people were soaking them so that they wouldn’t affect their mash water volume.
When I use them they get rinsed, mostly because they will suck up a lot of your precious first runnings. Also because when you rinse them the color of the rinse water is quite disgusting and I wouldnt want that in my beer.
My Mex lager. 10% rice hull, no rinse. color (approriately near yellow piss) looked good to me. 
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