Barley crusher.. is this coming out right?
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how does that look? A bit too course?Looks OK to me, mostly whole husks . . . you could possibly get away with nipping it a bit tighter though . . . The acid test is what happens when you mash it, does it lauter freely? Does it set? what is the efficiency?
FWIW you can't use crystal malts to set the gap as they just explode when they go though the mill
FWIW you can't use crystal malts to set the gap as they just explode when they go though the mill
Will be trying it out soon then, I'll let you know.
Grabbed a bag of caramunich the other day.. when I got home I was thinking I shoulda asked for whole instead of crushed.
Are you saying the crusher wouldn't be too good on most speciality malts then, or just the darker malted ones?
Grabbed a bag of caramunich the other day.. when I got home I was thinking I shoulda asked for whole instead of crushed.
Are you saying the crusher wouldn't be too good on most speciality malts then, or just the darker malted ones?
warra48
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That looks a bit course to me. You would normally expect to see a little flour after the crush, and there is none I can see in the picture.
I set my mill with a feeler gauge, and leave it at about 1 mm (.040") for all my milling.
Wheat I tend to run through seperately first, and then add it back to the rest of the grist, so it gets run through twice.
I set my mill with a feeler gauge, and leave it at about 1 mm (.040") for all my milling.
Wheat I tend to run through seperately first, and then add it back to the rest of the grist, so it gets run through twice.
Vossy1
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Try it a see Ryan :thumb:
The finer the crush the easier is it to extract/convert in general, but that leads to possible problems with set mashes, not that I've experienced them.
The finer the crush the easier is it to extract/convert in general, but that leads to possible problems with set mashes, not that I've experienced them.
I'll try it a bit closer then...
Hi V, yeah that was pretty much all I knew about crushing grain :)
I noticed this morning that the rubber O-ring had slipped over to the middle of the rollers during crushing with a drill attached.. are you supposed to take the O-ring off if you're using a drill or something? Anyone have any idea why it moved?
Hi V, yeah that was pretty much all I knew about crushing grain :)
I noticed this morning that the rubber O-ring had slipped over to the middle of the rollers during crushing with a drill attached.. are you supposed to take the O-ring off if you're using a drill or something? Anyone have any idea why it moved?
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