biertourist
Well-Known Member
The benefits of wet milling when using the typical home brew/ micro brew 2 roll mills are talked about a LOT in all the professional literature, but I haven't heard much about any home brewers really using the technique - anyone using this at home? -If so using what equipment and process?
Anyone using steam injection immediately prior to malting? Pre-soaking the malt? Mixing with water / water spray on the way to the mill?
This obviously requires a stainless mill, hopper, and assembly to avoid rusting -what are the options on this front and how much is it going to cost?
Proper milling is SO important to extract recovery and lautering speed which are both INSANELY important to brewery efficiency and capacity it just seems like a no-brainer to spend some extra time and $$ to proper milling. -Especially as microbreweries have to deal with lots of different speciality malts and grain and therefore need different gap settings, it seems like more time should be spent focusing on milling in the micro brewery environment than even the big lager boys who always deal with the same malt spec and malt cleaners, screens, and expensive 6 roller mills.
Adam
Anyone using steam injection immediately prior to malting? Pre-soaking the malt? Mixing with water / water spray on the way to the mill?
This obviously requires a stainless mill, hopper, and assembly to avoid rusting -what are the options on this front and how much is it going to cost?
Proper milling is SO important to extract recovery and lautering speed which are both INSANELY important to brewery efficiency and capacity it just seems like a no-brainer to spend some extra time and $$ to proper milling. -Especially as microbreweries have to deal with lots of different speciality malts and grain and therefore need different gap settings, it seems like more time should be spent focusing on milling in the micro brewery environment than even the big lager boys who always deal with the same malt spec and malt cleaners, screens, and expensive 6 roller mills.
Adam