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Maillard reactions in action ;) Whole wheat/rye bread.

I see, thanks. I'll read the "connected" article.

I see. Thanks, for your info. But when you change water to grain ratio, you need to take the sparging into account, because your sparge efficiency could be hurt. In my case, I'm making 20 L (~ 5 G) batches (in fermenter) and I'm using 2.8 l/kg (~ 1.3 qt/lb) so I've got "low enough" sparge...

Yes, it's 84.5% / 80.6%.

No, not corona. I have double roller malt mill.

Yes, I'll try the other one next time I'll be buying.

Malt is tasting fine. In no way would I throw out 20 kg of malt ;)

No, other values I have (related) are RE45=40.5, Friability=87. In relation to WK, I have the "starch conversion time in minutes" and it is 12 minutes.

So, I've received the answer about Kolbach index and it is 39. So it is on the edge between the under-modified/moderate-modified malt. Maybe I should try protein rest or mash at higher temps.

I think that there is a probability, that I was using under-modified malt, because the malt used was a floor malt. Therefor my suggestion to use another pilsner malt. I think that the only possibility here is a quality of the malt. The crush is probably ok, as the people with even greater...

Hey, thanks for the replies :) @doug293cz, do I understand you correctly, that the low temperature could be really the cause in my case? @RPIScotty, the Pilsner malt was from local malt house. Do you want some specific values for the malt? @Silver_Is_Money, oh yes, till yesterday, I was...

I've just rechecked the mill gap settings, and it's set to 0.75 mm actually.

Thank you for your replies. I think I'll try to reduce the mill gap a little more and would try another experiment or a real batch. As @chickypad noted, the temperature could be a problem, but I had a beers with even lower temps and conversion was done in no more than 1 hour (but, I was using...

Hi, in the last three batches, I had a low efficiency. And because my new pH meter has arrived, I've decided to make a little test for the efficiency. Every 20 minutes I've measured the pH of the wort, the Plato of the wort and the temperature. I had a hypothesis, that my efficiency was...

I just look to the page once more and there is a manual which has the specifications needed. So ti looks like it is 0.37 kW motor, with 1800 RPMs with gear ratio 10 or 7.5. With 10:1 ratio (180 RPM) it will have 19.6 NM (174 in-lb) torque. So I think I too could go with 0.37 kW motor. Thanks...