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Thanks for the response. Do you find the detents work well for repeatably indexing the roller gap? The Crankandstein is the only mill I've seen that has them, and if they do work well it's a deal clincher. I would wonder, though, why other mills don't have them.

Hi, folks. I'm about ready to replace my old Corona mill, which has served me well but is becoming a bit too worn to mill accurately any more. I've been researching mills for quite a while, and I'm down to deciding between a 3 roller Crankandstein and a 3 roller Monster Mill. First, I've...

I weigh everything. I have a good digital scale and I work in SI units, so it's easy - 1l of water weighs 1kg. If you're using imperial units it's not quite that simple, but still easy to calculate the weight of the water you need.

Something you might try is splitting up a batch into two portions and varying one of them. You could boil 5 gallons and then put it into two 3 gallon carboys to ferment, using, say, different yeast in each carboy or dry hopping one. This would at least allow you to perform some experiments...

I develop/tweak recipes in the Master Recipes folder, and then copy a recipe to the Brew Log folder when brewing. I number my batches sequentially, so I rename the recipe "batch - date - recipe name" for every batch. This way I can make adjustments to a recipe, but still keep an accurate brew...

Corny kegs don't seal very well without a little pressure. I'd shoot a little gas into the keg before putting it in your garage - just enough to get a good seal (you can hear it hissing before the lid seals) - then let the yeast and the sugar do the rest.