Check my crush!

Is this a crap crush or am I just crazy?

It is not my crush, I bought it crushed from a retailer's store and had my brother drive it back 9 hours to me.

Looks like mostly un-crushed grain.

If you did it tighten things up and run it through again. If it is store bought - complain!

One guess where it is from, GO!

It looks like someone stepped on a pile of malt, accidentally crushing a few pieces.


This is what mine looks like right out of the mill. 0.032" mill gap.

That's what I am used to seeing from my normal orders (above photo). Thought the bulk bags would be crushed since I requested it.

Feeler guages and new Barley Crusher should be here Friday!

Much better! Barley Crusher set at the factory gap.

You sure they crushed that for you or was it just handled roughly during shipping. I think a rolling pin would do a better job.

brewmeister13 said:

You sure they crushed that for you or was it just handled roughly during shipping. I think a rolling pin would do a better job.

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Yeah. But they stepped, up admitted their mistake and shipped my mill via nex day air I purchased to make sure it was here in time.

That's good of them. You never did mention who it was.

Now that's a good crush. What mill did you use?

GotPushrods said:

This is what mine looks like right out of the mill. 0.032" mill gap.

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TrubHead said:

Now that's a good crush. What mill did you use?

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Just a basic CrankAndStein from about 2006. Works great, never had a problem.

Maybe this is just a ploy to sell more mills, working well for them.

Sorry, but I wouldn't call shipping you 50 lbs of the wrong product, and then selling you a mill to fix the problem even with a free ship, "stepping up".

wilserbrewer said:

Maybe this is just a ploy to sell more mills, working well for them.

Sorry, but I wouldn't call shipping you 50 lbs of the wrong product, and then selling you a mill to fix the problem even with a free ship, "stepping up".

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Might be. However it cost them $120 to overnight it. They were going to ship me replacement grain, I asked them to credit me the amount they would lose for product and shipping.

I wanted a mill in the future and saw an opportunity to get a deal. Plus, not sure what I would do with 200 pounds of grain in the short term since I am moving in two months.

brewmeister13 said:

That's good of them. You never did mention who it was.

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Retailer in Minnesota. Short list.

thatjonguy said:

Might be. However it cost them $120 to overnight it. .

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Wow! that is crazy a$$ money
I stand corrected, thank you. That is certainly a good faith effort to fix the problem!

Agree...good of them to admit the mistake and offer to ship you replacement grain. That was 3/4 of the reason that I got a mill. I found that my OG was all over the board using various mail order, pre-crushed or crushed locally grain.

- Brent