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CellarScience® Glucabuster | Mashing Enzyme

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    • Improves Mash Flow and Efficiency: Glucabuster breaks down glucans, arabinoxylan, and cellulose to prevent stuck mashes and slow runoff, ensuring smoother lautering and improved yield.
    • Enhances Downstream Filtering: By breaking down polysaccharides, Glucabuster helps simplify filtering in later brewing stages, ensuring cleaner and faster processes.
    • Effective Across a Wide Range of Temperatures and pH Levels: Works efficiently within a temperature range of 120-185°F and an ideal pH range of 4.7-7.0, making it versatile for various brewing conditions.
    • Highly Concentrated and Easy to Use: With just 1/4 tsp needed per 5-gallon batch, Glucabuster offers a highly concentrated solution for improving mash flow and overall brewing efficiency.

    Glucabuster by CellarScience improves lautering and yield while making potential downstream filtering easier. Highly concentrated ß-glucanase breaks down glucans that can lead to stuck mashes and slow runoff. Xylanase and Cellulase break down the polysaccharide chains of arabinoxylan and cellulose. Together, all three enzymes help keep today’s challenging mashes flowing right.

    Use:
    Add 1/4 tsp per 5-gallon batch at mash-in. Glucabuster works in a range of 120-185°F and ideally at a pH range of 4.7-7.0.

    Additional Notes:
    Endosperm cell walls are made up of non-starch polysaccharides, of which, in barley, β-glucans account for 75% with arabinoxylan (pentosan) and cellulose accounting for most of the rest. In wheat, the arabinoxylan content is higher. Glucabuster is composed of the cell wall hydrolases β-glucanase, xylanase, and cellulase, which break down the β-14 bonds in these polysaccharides. These enzymes can be equally important to their more famous starch degradation enzymes, α-Amylase and β-Amylase.  Glucanase, xylanase, and cellulase are naturally found in malt but decrease during the kilning stage of malting. Depending on your recipe, adding these enzymes is important to assist with lautering and later with filtering. Refrigeration is recommended, but store at least below 70°F.

    The recommended shelf life is 12 months from the date the package is opened.
     
     

     

    CellarScience® Glucabuster | Mashing Enzyme

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        Description

        • Improves Mash Flow and Efficiency: Glucabuster breaks down glucans, arabinoxylan, and cellulose to prevent stuck mashes and slow runoff, ensuring smoother lautering and improved yield.
        • Enhances Downstream Filtering: By breaking down polysaccharides, Glucabuster helps simplify filtering in later brewing stages, ensuring cleaner and faster processes.
        • Effective Across a Wide Range of Temperatures and pH Levels: Works efficiently within a temperature range of 120-185°F and an ideal pH range of 4.7-7.0, making it versatile for various brewing conditions.
        • Highly Concentrated and Easy to Use: With just 1/4 tsp needed per 5-gallon batch, Glucabuster offers a highly concentrated solution for improving mash flow and overall brewing efficiency.

        Glucabuster by CellarScience improves lautering and yield while making potential downstream filtering easier. Highly concentrated ß-glucanase breaks down glucans that can lead to stuck mashes and slow runoff. Xylanase and Cellulase break down the polysaccharide chains of arabinoxylan and cellulose. Together, all three enzymes help keep today’s challenging mashes flowing right.

        Use:
        Add 1/4 tsp per 5-gallon batch at mash-in. Glucabuster works in a range of 120-185°F and ideally at a pH range of 4.7-7.0.

        Additional Notes:
        Endosperm cell walls are made up of non-starch polysaccharides, of which, in barley, β-glucans account for 75% with arabinoxylan (pentosan) and cellulose accounting for most of the rest. In wheat, the arabinoxylan content is higher. Glucabuster is composed of the cell wall hydrolases β-glucanase, xylanase, and cellulase, which break down the β-14 bonds in these polysaccharides. These enzymes can be equally important to their more famous starch degradation enzymes, α-Amylase and β-Amylase.  Glucanase, xylanase, and cellulase are naturally found in malt but decrease during the kilning stage of malting. Depending on your recipe, adding these enzymes is important to assist with lautering and later with filtering. Refrigeration is recommended, but store at least below 70°F.

        The recommended shelf life is 12 months from the date the package is opened.
         
         

         

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        Glucabuster Technical Sheet
        AD106
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        Dawnie
        Not sure it works

        Did not notice any difference in batches with and without this enzyme. Certainly could be user error or something else, but if there is any effect I did not notice it. Nice dispensing bottle though, keep it refrigerated.

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        Jon B.
        Did not make a difference

        I brew 100% oat beers. I was hoping that this would help break down the beta-glucans and also help the recirculation when I have a lot of naked and flaked oats in the grain bill, but unfortunately I noticed no difference.

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        Tysen B.
        Makes BIAB that much easier.

        I use the brew in a bag method and have found that this significantly cuts down on the time it takes to squeeze out all the available wort in a batch. It's especially helpful in adjunct heavy recipes such as Hazy IPA/NEIPA. It may have a permanent place in my brewery.

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        Whit K.

        For sure helped a ton with sparge. My efficiency was higher than normal. Will continue to use in all my beers moving forward.

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        Wayne Doucette
        If you recirculate your mash, this stuff is incredible

        I was having intermittent problems with maintaining a good circulation in my RIMS mash. I assumed it was a starch or protein problem, not realizing it was a beta glucan problem. I have brewed 3 times using just a 1/4 teaspoon with 12 pounds of grain or so. It makes an incredible difference. I only have to stir the mash once in the beginning, after that the flow through the grain bed remains very high. Not only does it improve flow, but my mash extraction rate went from an already high of 85% to an amazing +95%. On top of all that, the mash tun and hoses are easier to clean, leaving almost no slimy coating on the false bottom. An outstanding product for system that recirculate during the mash.

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        Nick g.
        Game changer.

        I love this stuff. After using it in my latest batch my mash efficiency went up and had zero issues with stuck sparges. Highly recommend!

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        Jason B.
        Sped up sparge on Mash and Boil

        Seemed to help speed draining of of wort in the grain tube after mashing with the Mash and Boil system. Efficiency was also was a little higher than usual,

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