thood6
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How's it look?
How does my crush look?
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Yeah,another member told me once that .037 was good.
Yeah, I'd say it looks a bit loose. My crush is usually far finer.
MotorcycleMatt
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really bad, your efficiency will suffer if you keep using that.
For biab,I crush it till it looks like it's ready to make all grain bread. Efficiency went way up after I got a paint strainer bag that allows stirring of the mash. That 1 thing made my OG go upfrom 46 to 55.
vinnythering
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It'll make beer, but your efficiency will be horrible.
Ut'll go down a couple percent on average from what I've seen so far with PM.
bottlebomber
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+1 to not adequate. That crush will probably give you around 55-60%, not more. Lots of broken grains and whole grains. What kind of a mill are you using?
orange?
whitehause
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yea.....way too course. Crank that baby down and crush the crap outa it.
bottlebomber
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It almost looks like it was crushed with a rolling pin..
Going to buck the trend here.
If that's conditioned, it looks fine to me. My grain looks like that every time conditioned. I crush at the factory default for the MM2-2.0, which is 0.042" IIRC. Two passes. Once I pour it from one bucket to the next, the ones that appear uncrushed fall right apart. I just finished a batch that BeerSmith tells me somehow hit 95% mash efficiency with a very similar crush.
If that's unconditioned, well, I have no idea then. Sorry.
If that's conditioned, it looks fine to me. My grain looks like that every time conditioned. I crush at the factory default for the MM2-2.0, which is 0.042" IIRC. Two passes. Once I pour it from one bucket to the next, the ones that appear uncrushed fall right apart. I just finished a batch that BeerSmith tells me somehow hit 95% mash efficiency with a very similar crush.
If that's unconditioned, well, I have no idea then. Sorry.
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thood6
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Yeah even with a double crush I got bad efficiency. My malt mill from northern brewer.
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/barley-crusher-w-7-hopper.html
I used a drill and it seemed like it was just shredding the husk and not crushing.
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/barley-crusher-w-7-hopper.html
I used a drill and it seemed like it was just shredding the husk and not crushing.
I don't have a grain mill yet,so I use an old mini food processor we got from my mother ages ago. I fill it about half way with grain,& give it three pulses of about 2 seconds each. Even the crush I get from midwest usually looks like the op's. And since I do biab partial mash partial boil,the finer crush works really well.
