Q for Ritebrew customers, how good is their milling?

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Did you mean you the steeping didn't add any flavor, or that you didn't check for flavor?

I didn't taste it. It was a highly concentrated steep as I wasn't confident that I'd get either color or measurable SG from the uncrushed malt steep. 4 oz in 0.25 gal water => 1# in 1 gal => 5# in 5 gal.

the crush didn't affect color or flavor.

With the highly concentrated steeps, the uncrushed malt steep was slightly lighter. It may be due to the fact that the grains were not crushed. It may be due to the crushed grains steep being a little hazy.

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If I were to do a second test (I'm not planning to do so), I would attempt to recreate a poor crush. With 4 oz of malt, crush 2 oz normally and crush 2 oz with a rolling pin. The other steep would a normal crush (maybe a double crush) with 4 oz malt. With some additional malt, The ASBC "Hot Steep" method (link) could be used for taste testing

 

[schuchdan]

One more pic from today's order