slym2none
"Lazy extract brewer."
I haven't even started brewing yet, and I am a little worried. I got the LHBS to crush my grain (BM's Centennial blonde, scaled down to 2.4 gallons) and they even have the option on the sheet to mill grains twice. I checked that off. This is what the grains look like:
As you can see in the last pic, there is some flour & broken pieces are prevalent in the second pic, but it looks like more than a few of the grains are untouched. I do say "looks like" because, as I was sifting through the bag, I was picking up the grains that looked untouched, smashing them between my thumb & forefinger. I'd say less than 1 out of ten (4 out of 50) did not smash with the pressure, so it seems most of those are at least crushed/cracked. But there were a few that were totally not. Now I am hoping for really good efficiency because some of these grains are whole, but it doesn't seem worth my while to try and pick those out & give them a whirl in the blender.
Anyway, stay tuned for this adventure! Any tips/advice are always welcome.
As noted in the title, it's really a mini-mash with extract, because I have 1-1/2 pounds of lite DME I need to use up, so I bought three pounds of grains, as I ran my idea through Brewer's Friend and it said this would give me ~5.25% ABV, 16 IBU's, and an SRM of 6. I say, it oughta be nice, as even the all-extract version I did was awesome!
As you can see in the last pic, there is some flour & broken pieces are prevalent in the second pic, but it looks like more than a few of the grains are untouched. I do say "looks like" because, as I was sifting through the bag, I was picking up the grains that looked untouched, smashing them between my thumb & forefinger. I'd say less than 1 out of ten (4 out of 50) did not smash with the pressure, so it seems most of those are at least crushed/cracked. But there were a few that were totally not. Now I am hoping for really good efficiency because some of these grains are whole, but it doesn't seem worth my while to try and pick those out & give them a whirl in the blender.
Anyway, stay tuned for this adventure! Any tips/advice are always welcome.
As noted in the title, it's really a mini-mash with extract, because I have 1-1/2 pounds of lite DME I need to use up, so I bought three pounds of grains, as I ran my idea through Brewer's Friend and it said this would give me ~5.25% ABV, 16 IBU's, and an SRM of 6. I say, it oughta be nice, as even the all-extract version I did was awesome!