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So enjoyed a lovely Sunday with fall colors, and a little time off from work today. Was not planning on brewing, all fermenters are full, though wanted to goto the LHBS and fiddle with the mill, and see what kind of results I can get.
The first picture is running some 2-row through at 0.45mm (checked and it is in mm on this mill) twice over. It gave a good crush, better than what I last posted in my opinion, though still not what other posters have put up.
So I asked the LHBS to set the mill at 0.39mm for a tighter crush. We set the mill put in the grain and started running it through. Guess what, it didn't go through!!! You could spin the mill all day long, and not a kernel would go through. Then the HBS suggested running it through at 0.45, then reset the mill and run it through at 0.39. Worked brilliantly! That's the second picture and to me looks just about right. All endosperm are out of the shell and crushed/cracked thoroughly, and the shells are intact 3/4 of the way to set up a nice filter during sparge.
I'm gonna do some tests with both to check grain bed set up and efficiency. I'm concluding that this mill is similar to others, and that you can't mill beginning at 0.39 or less, but have to start with a larger gap and then re-run at a tighter setting. If so, this is important information for a newbie to know!
Thanks again for the help!