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This sounds like a roller issue rather than a torque issue. Look at the knurls on each roller. If they are flat instead of pointed, there's your issue. I had your exact problem till I bought a new mill. Now I can rip through 13 lbs of grain in less than 3 minutes with a 3/8 drive cordless drill...

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The markings are still like new. When I got it, I scrubbed it up with Barkeepers friend and at the end of a brewday I clean with a scrub pad thats made for stainless steel and a gallon of warm water in the pot with a couple glugs of CLR.

The 10 gal. brewbuilt kettle that I got 5 years ago is holding up great. I like that the notched lid lets you cover the kettle with the immersion chiller in it. A sanitized rag over the opening prevents anything from getting in there during cooling. You just have to make sure the threads are dry...

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I'm thankful that its between the lawn mowing and snowblowing seasons, and to all service members past and present.

Sweet! I am in.

Very nice! I'm in.

I do bag in a cooler also. I just got a wilser bag a couple brews ago and couldn't be any happier. My wort is very clean coming out of the cooler with a 1 gal. vorlauf and the grain practically jumps off the bag when I go to rinse it off. Much, much better than any bag I've used before. You just...

I don't know if you can identify hops by appearance. Someone else might be able to, but I can't. But, you should be able get in the ballpark by the smell.

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It looks like the top of the kreusen ring is just drying out.

Yea, the beer isn't my cup of tea, but it didn't turn out too bad considering it was my first stab at it. My wife told me to put it in the book and not to change anything.

Its Brewers Best Natural Peanut Butter flavoring extract from homebrew supply. Its funny, on the website they say its natural yet on the bottle it says artificial.

I just tapped a keg of peanut butter cup stout for my wife. After 2 weeks in the primary I added 4 oz. of peanut butter extract to the fermenter, along with 8 oz. of cocoa nibs that had soaked in a few oz. of vodka for 5 days. I let that sit another 2 weeks, kegged and than it sat in the keg 3...