Crushed or Milled?

[PackerfaninSanDiego]

Is there a difference? Most recipes call for crushed grains bit I see where quite a few milled their grains.

 

[ArtimusBeerimus]

Always assumed it was semantics, though I won't be crushed (or milled) to learn that I'm mistaken...

 

[porto88]

crushing means breaking the grain into 2 or more pieces, milling usually means milling/grinding into flour

 

[PackerfaninSanDiego]

seems it would be better to crush the grains and not mill them? I do BIAB and I read "crushed" a lot in recipes, posts

 

[ArcLight]

Ground into flour can usually lead to stuck sparges. And for BIAB you may have a greater amount of particles flowing through your bag into your fermentor. I'm not sure what the impact will be (certainly more Trub), but maybe it will affect the flavor.

 

[unionrdr]

It'll make the beer haze up by fridge time in my experience. Seems to put more dissolved protiens in the beer. They'll settle out clear in the bottles,& haze up bad at fridge time. So I started using super moss as of the last batch to combat the haze. & got the barley crusher grain mill to get a better crush that's not so fine.

 

[YNOT2K]

a "grain mill" crushes grain.

 

[kh54s10]

A Corona style mill shreds the grain.