My efficiency was crap when I got one of their custom kits. I've read a few other posts which have criticised the crush and the efficiency from them too.
My efficiency was crap when I got one of their custom kits. I've read a few other posts which have criticised the crush and the efficiency from them too.
I guess it may help others struggling to get decent efficiency that the crush you get from those who sell us grain can lead to poor mash efficiency when doing BIAB. Cos that's the only possible explanation I can think of, the only thing that was different - except it was the first time I've used grain from Geterbrewed.
Is it just the crush, or the grain itself too, do we know? The crush was poor, for sure, there were uncrushed grains in it. I thought about crushing it again myself with my Corona hand mill but couldn't be bothered with the faff.
If they'd sent the uncrushed malt I ordered I would be happily oblivious! But maybe @Mansemasher should contact them cos this will affect sales if they don't sort it out.
I could contact them, but it would have more clout if they had a number of complaints from those who have experienced these issues, rather than me saying 'people are complaining about poor crushed grain'. Just my thoughts.....
or do an overnight mash as per myqul's findings that the efficiency rockets overnight :hmm:
Whoops, sorry Clibit, I seem to be rambling on your mixed grains thread. My apologies.
Is it just the overnight mash, or is it that the next day, Saturday is devoted to sparging and then boiling only. This might be consistent with a pretty decent effort on the sparging as well?
So, is it one dunk or two on the sparging?
My scientific bent suggests that two dunk sparges in BIAB would extract more sugars than one, using the same overall sparging water.
Between the two processes, long mash and extended sparge, it may be possible to do better than with just one of them.
Whoops, sorry Clibit, I seem to be rambling on your mixed grains thread. My apologies.
Very interesting clibit thanks. I struggle to get more than 66% efficiency with my take on biab & buying grain ready crushed, and even had one recent brew at a very disappointing 56%
Methinks a grain mill is definitely going on the Xmas list.
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