New mill testing

[forgetaboudit]

Trying out my new corona (actually Victoria) mill. Is this too fine for BIAB?

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

No. Finely ground is good for BIAB.

 

[bracconiere]

actually looks a little uneven, but about what i do for my cooler and bazooka....

edit: but i get more whole husks in mine....

 

[AzOr]

I need new glasses.
I thought the subject line read,
“New Milf testing”.

 

[bracconiere]

I need new glasses.
I thought the subject line read,
“New Milf testing”.

lol, i'm not a dad...but is that what new dads have to do?

 

[LittleRiver]

Looks to me like a good crush for BIAB.

 

[forgetaboudit]

Thanks guys. Ill see how my efficiency is tomorrow after brew day.
Milf testing hahahaha

 

[RM-MN]

Not fine enough.

 

[forgetaboudit]

My brew day went alot better than it has the last three times I did BIAB. Believe my efficiency was around 75%. Just need to dial in my boil off rate a little better, and I think I've got it down.
Also need to come up with a better way to squeeze the grain bag, as my wife's plastic strainer isnt cutting it.

 

[Oginme]

Also need to come up with a better way to squeeze the grain bag, as my wife's plastic strainer isnt cutting it.

I use a SS colander with an over-sized SS bowl and a flat lid from an old pot which fits just inside the colander. I hang the bag to drip and then use the colander and the lid to squeeze down to where the lid is tight against the sides of the colander. This provides a consistent limit to how much compression and free water is released from the grains. The variability of my grain absorption due to grist volume is very minor from high gravity batches to low session recipes using this method.

 

[LittleRiver]

... need to come up with a better way to squeeze the grain bag, as my wife's plastic strainer isnt cutting it.

Try rigging an overhead hoist point and just let the bag drain into the kettle during the entire boil. At the end there will only be about a cup of liquid left in the grains, which is not enough to make the effort of squeezing worthwhile. When it comes time to dispose of the grains, the bag will have cooled down, and it will be lightweight. Win, win, win.

No sparge & no squeeze is my standard practice, I consistently get low 80's brewhouse efficiency. I only sparge for big beers, I never squeeze.

 

[forgetaboudit]

Try rigging an overhead hoist point and just let the bag drain into the kettle during the entire boil. At the end there will only be about a cup of liquid left in the grains, which is not enough to make the effort of squeezing worthwhile. When it comes time to dispose of the grains, the bag will have cooled down, and it will be lightweight. Win, win, win.

No sparge & no squeeze is my standard practice, I consistently get low 80's brewhouse efficiency. I only sparge for big beers, I never squeeze.

I was planning on welding up a frame to mount a pulley to for hanging the bag. Speaking of... I should probably get around to doing that... It's been in the planning (thinking about it) stage for 6 months...

 

[CascadesBrewer]

Also need to come up with a better way to squeeze the grain bag

Like others, I have simplified my process to limit the amount of squeezing needed. I figured I could squeeze the crap out of a hot, wet sticky bag, or just throw in a little more grain and live with the efficiency hit. I set my efficiency in BeerSmith to 73%, and most times I come in a few points above that with just draining with gravity (sometimes I will have to do a light squeeze if I am low on volume). With my 5 gal batches I use a ratcheting pulley. With my 2.5 gal stove top batches I move the bag to a colander over a bucket.

 

[mongoose33]

It's a little finer than I used for BIAB, and mine worked well.