thedude123
Well-Known Member
You get a good crush with the factory setting. You should be able to get atleast high 70's with that setting.
I love mine. Seems that the setting on each end need to be turned in opposite directions. I have mine set at 1:00 on the right side and 11:00 on the left side.
Im reaching for 75% efficiency but the crush is great. Im thinking its doing large 20+ pound grain bills in my round Rubbermaid. I think I need to switch to a larger rectangular unit to thin the bed out a bit.
Now you need to break out the high tech automated grinding unit to save your palms from blistering with that crank handle. (Im sure youd prefer to blister you palms doing your second favorite pastime.)
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Perhaps you shoulc just add rice hulls? Or get a stanless braid instead of a false bottom?
Hey, all. I too love my BC mill, but I'm thinking of adjusting my crush. No matter how much I recirculate, and how clear the first runnings are, bits of grain always come out of the mash tun. I run it through a sieve to catch this stuff, but I'd rather the grain bed and the false bottom do this work.
Any suggestions on what I might set it to (or maybe I'm doing something else wrong)? I bought a feeler gauge yesterday for the purpose.
Thanks,
CB
... or, as in your case, husk particulates in the run off. I've backed off on my crush somewhat...[/IMG]
Throw a sauce pot full of rice hulls in each of your batches and your wort will run clear. I use rice hulls in all my batches.
Throw a sauce pot full of rice hulls in each of your batches and your wort will run clear. I use rice hulls in all my batches.
I got a tracking number today, tomorrow will be exactly 3 weeks since ordering.
evilhomer! a fellow Lexington brewer! I ordered mine through AHB on 1/21 they said to contact them if I dont get it by 2/25 which sucks! I have been waiting a long time to brew since I ordered all uncrushed grain in anticipation of my new BC. The BC seemed like the best bang for the buck at the time I ordered now it looks like they are really lacking in customer service.
Well let me know if you want to use mine, I should get it this week. I'm actually in Versailles.
I just bought the 7lb BC as well. Can't wait to start using it. The lack of response from Randy there is really aggravating though. I've sent him three emails and no response. All I want to know is if it's going to be here by this weekend, didn't think it was a tough question. Still waiting on the shipping confirmation as well. It's going on a week since I made the Paypal payment.
i had the same thing happen to me so i went through paypal to get my money back, i had to wonder if they were still in business because i'd never had no response at all from a vendor. when he finally got to me he seemed miffed because the website says to expect shipping to take 7-10 days. i pointed out that it mentions nothing about no response at all to emails, or no order confirmation. i got no response back. lol.
he's there just to busy to return emails. i'm not mad about it (he might be) but after reading other reports on here i just wanted to make sure there was somebody on the other end. i'm willing to wait.
Does anyone have a phone contact number for Barleycrusher.com? It's been 10 days (actually 12 now) and no word on a tracking number and the crusher is definitely not on arrival. Basically no contact since my order after a confirmation email of my payment.
Seemed like good people from all the comments I read, but this is getting me a bit antsy.... like is the website fraudulent or something? I would have hoped to have reported better.
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