I have to agree on a new mill. I do eBIAB and WOW... i had horrible eff before... now high 80s, one thing I learned is now you WILL get stuck mashes without either rice hulls or increasing the gap a bit... i started at 20 which was a bit too low... now at 25 much better...
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Barley Crusher mill for me, set at .022 The last two batches I was between 80-82%
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I'm assuming you mean you have flow problems with your recirculation system. Stuck mashes are not an issue, regardless of mill gap setting, for those of us who don't recirculate.
Well , before I got the mill i've never had one after 20 something batches. But the first one I ground a bit too fine, almost flour, and it def plugged up the basket... I stirred in some rice hulls and that helped. After that ive back off a bit on the gap and now its perfect. I get 85+ eff where before i was in the 60s. Its amazing how much more extraction you get when you grind it a bit...
I do single kettle, recirculating mash, no sparge, eBIAB. It sounds like you do, too. Rice hulls helped me a little, but what really worked for me was getting rid of the basket, and using only a bag and a very high flow false bottom. I no longer use hulls and I no longer even think about flow problems. They just don't happen anymore.
