Diastatic Power

Production methods from starch to sugars.

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Mashy
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Diastatic Power

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I've read a lot of posts on diastatic power and saw a couple formulas as well. Is there a general rule of thumb about what percent of a grain bill should be malted? I know it depends on the malt so this may be a case by case basis.

My recent mash:

19 gal of water
2 tablespoons gysum
26 lbs rye
10lbs malted rye

Got a final SG of 1041 and about 12 gallons out of all that. Rye really sucked up the water. Not sure if this is because rye may have less sugar or I didn't have enough malt. I did through a couple of table spoons of "amalayse enzymes" in towards the end and the mash sweetened up a bit but wasn't overpoweringly sweet. I added sugar to make it worth my time but want to get away from this and do a true all grain. Any suggestions? I was thinking of trying 20 rye and 16 malted next time but wanted some advice/tools from here before. Is there a diastatic calculator like the dilution, SG, etc calculators that I found around here?
Mashy

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