Does this Look Correctly Crushed?

This is a hefeweizen recipe. 50/50 german pils and red wheat grist. That's it. I was targeting 70% efficiency, but I am getting 53%. I typically get around 80% efficiency when I lauter as slowly as I did with this mash, doing a double batch sparge.

I have only been doing all grain for a little less than a year and this is the 2nd hefeweizen I've done, the last one was also a low efficiency mash, but I just figured that was a learning experience and not a crush problem.

It seems to me like there are a lot of uncracked grains in this mash, but I could just be crazy. Does this look normal to you or like the grain wasn't properly crushed?

Looks too coarse to me.

yeah I have been thinking it's time to invest in my own mill, I think this seals it.

Does not look like a sufficient crush to me. I invested in my own mill and have been very happy with it.. I have a Barley Crusher. http://www.barleycrusher.com/

Denny said:

Looks too coarse to me.

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Mine usually only has a few hard to find whole kernels. I use a barley crusher with my gap just slightly closer than factory.

is it that wheat is a smaller grain and the mill was set for a coarse barley crush so the wheat just went through the rollers mostly untouched? do people normally put wheat and barley together in a mill for crushing, or do them separately with different mill settings for each? am i going to wind up with a hefe-pilsen and not a hefeweizen? lol

Just had the same thing happen. 58% efficiency and my grain looked similar to yours. I'm now the proud owner of a JSP Maltmill. I'm done relying on other people's equipment.

I would agree that it looks a little coarse. I've been getting great results with a Monster Mill at .046.

thegerm said:

is it that wheat is a smaller grain and the mill was set for a coarse barley crush so the wheat just went through the rollers mostly untouched? do people normally put wheat and barley together in a mill for crushing, or do them separately with different mill settings for each? am i going to wind up with a hefe-pilsen and not a hefeweizen? lol

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Wheat typically gets the exact same gap as barley. Don't think that's quite the problem.

Here's a good thread on crush's with pics.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/corona-mill-users-evaluate-my-crush-please-133814/#post1507832

That looks closer to uncrushed, than crushed. I'd go back to wherever sold you that grain and suggest they try again.

thanks for the responses. I'm contacting the shop about the crush.