My volumes were spot on as well
How are you measuring volume?
Are you correcting for different volumes based on different temperatures throughout the process?
What refractometer do you recommend?
Hi Caleb,
I personally use a two-roller malt mill with a fixed 0.045" gap and achieve mash efficiency in the 78-82% range. You may choose to use an adjustable mill and find what works best for you experimentally. Either way, this should give you a reasonable starting point.
Cheers,
Pete
Blichmann Engineering
My Barley Crusher is set now at .036 which is giving me close to 78% mash efficiency. As some including Denny say "Crush till your scared" If you don't get stuck sparges then lower gap setting incrementally until you do get a stuck sparge then back off some.
For me it's about consistency not max efficiency. I only get brew house efficiency of about 64%. But I can duplicate it every time.
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