What's your setup and your efficiency?

[Ozwald]

Who's crushing your grain?

Are you flirting?

[spiderwrangler]

Who's crushing your grain?

Are you flirting?

I think he's just offering.... Offering to massage your plump kernels between his steely knurled rollers till they pop and burst forth their starchy goodness from their husky confines.

[Ozwald]

Who's crushing your grain?

Are you flirting?

I think he's just offering.... Offering to massage your plump kernels between his steely knurled rollers till they pop and burst forth their starchy goodness from their husky confines.

I just finished.

[BDawg]

Since you keep coming up with the same low efficiency, time after time, it might be your crush.
Try running it through the mill twice, or tightening up the roller gap a little bit (if you can).

[crashlann]

When you are checking your efficiency during the lautering, how do you manage to cool the wort down enough to measure the gravity in a short amount of time so you know whether to keep going or not, or do you have too? Im confused on that process. To check you efficiency you check your gravity and compare it to your grain bill, right? I have just been lautering, and then setting a sample aside, chill it while I start my boil and then if my gravity is low, add DME. Im recording those numbers to adjust my method for improvement.

[spiderwrangler]

Most people making on the fly adjustments are likely using a refractometer. Takes much less time to cool down a few drops than it does to cool down a few ounces.

[crashlann]

Most people making on the fly adjustments are likely using a refractometer. Takes much less time to cool down a few drops than it does to cool down a few ounces.

Thanks, I will look into one.