Rolled Barley

[Bull Rider]

I bought a fifty pound bag of rolled barley at the feed store. The barley looks good, it's not like 2 row, it looks more like oatmeal, but darker.

I mashed twenty pounds of the rolled barley with ten gallons of strike water at a mash temp of 154 degrees and added alpha and gluco amylaze. The mash temp dropped to 150 within ten minutes or so, and is holding at that temp.

It's been two and a half hours and it's at 4 Brix, or a SG of 1.016.

Hmmmmmm. So, this (so far) is a bust. I wonder if it should have been ground. I always crush my two row barley, but this doesn't have any hull.

I think the winner is going to be the neighbors chickens...

I'll let it soak for a couple of more hours... any thoughts?