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  1. dicko

    Knurling on a Mashmaster Mini Mill

    Brad, here are the pics of the crush at 40 thou
  2. dicko

    Knurling on a Mashmaster Mini Mill

    Brad, As far as I can tell the pic of your crush at 44 thou is similar to mine at 40 thou with the two fluted rollers...mine at 44 thou had a few uncracked grains. I will try 40 thou in the BM and see if I get fountains. Does the grainfather suffer loss of efficiency and wort fountains with a...
  3. dicko

    RO water and harsh bitterness

    Yes, good luck with it mate. I know what it is like to live in an area where the town water is so bad even the toilet spits it back when you use it to flush. :lol: :lol: :ph34r:
  4. dicko

    Knurling on a Mashmaster Mini Mill

    Hi Jeff, I got no where near the flour from that crush that I was getting from the Mashmaster or even my old Crankenstein. I cant wait to use it for a real brew but my cubes and fermenters are full at the moment after the extra long weekend so I wont get to brew for around a fortnite. At this...
  5. dicko

    Knurling on a Mashmaster Mini Mill

    OK so my mill is now up and running with the new rollers. I set the gap at 1.118mm or 44thou in the old measurement and it milled quite well with most husks still in tact although some husks were broken in half. At that setting there were a few grains that weren't cracked but these were a very...
  6. dicko

    Knurling on a Mashmaster Mini Mill

    got my rollers in the post this morning.....Thanks Frank,/ Mashmaster and Anthony/Craftbrewer for their help. Is there anyone on here so far, that has replaced the rollers and has a Braumeister as I was wondering what gap you have set?
  7. dicko

    Beer Style Pronunciation Guide

    Great link, Thanks for that.
  8. dicko

    RO water and harsh bitterness

    I would concentrate on Mash PH and if that is correct not be overconcerned with boil PH. Many brewers including micros use RO water without incident and with good results so it is a fair assumption that either your unit is faulty or you are adding unnecessary salts somewhere in your process. I...
  9. dicko

    Continuing Rant Thread - Get it Off Ya Chest here

    Maybe this is part of the problem
  10. dicko

    Braumeister 20 Litre first generation for sale

    Cant believe it is still on here....everone has spent their money over xmas.:(
  11. dicko

    Poor Mash Efficiency

    G'day Wobbly, I am not on my desktop at the moment but if you click on "notes" it should give you my additions as a PPM figure. I have read AJ Delanges writings and I have read Gordon Strongs taking on water as well in which he tends to follow AJ. What Gordon Strong appeared to suggest was to...
  12. dicko

    Poor Mash Efficiency

    HI Mc here is a BS file of a beer I made today. If you open it in your beersmith you should access all the perameters that I currently use. I do an 80 minute boil and I use a home made hood but most reports are saying that there is very little difference in boil off between the hood and no...
  13. dicko

    Poor Mash Efficiency

    When I get back to the desktop I will send you my beersmith profile. At the moment I am using a Mashmaster mini mill that I bought new a short while ago. Apparently there is a series of rollers in these mills that are soft and wont hold the original knurl. The manufacturer has released a new...
  14. dicko

    Poor Mash Efficiency

    I should also add to this that it is extremely important at time of "doughing in" is to ensure that you have no "dough balls" in the mash. Dough balls are lumps of dry malt that have not been broken up and the water cant get to the sugars. I find with a 5 kilo grain bill I divide my dough in...
  15. dicko

    Poor Mash Efficiency

    G'day Mister clark, Buy zooming in on the pics I think you are correct in saying that you efficiency has been affected by a poor crush. There seems to be a number of whole grains still intact and in these will be trapped valuable sugars for your wort. If you have your own mill then ensure the...
  16. dicko

    RO water and harsh bitterness

    rockeye, I calculate the required total volume of water (Beersmith) and treat all the water the same. I use EZ water spreadsheet and that spreadsheet will allow you to achieve what ever water profile you want. The reason I calculate and adjust my entire volume of water as one adjustment is...
  17. dicko

    Mangrove Jack's Stainless Steel fermenter

    You can easily drill the lid and fit a grommet and fermentation lock but I just use glad wrap and the O ring from under the lid holds it in place.
  18. dicko

    Filtering Water.. which unit to buy ? RO or 3 Stage

    Slightly OT but I use an RO filter and I fitted a cheap float valve into a 60 litre fermenter and the flow cuts off when the vessel is close to full... A Pic will say it all
  19. dicko

    RO water and harsh bitterness

    Are you sure that your RO filter is working correctly. Do you have a TDS meter to test the output? If the membrane is bypassing and then you are adding salts to your water it will be way off the anticipated result. And then what manticle said in the above post...... You will need a PH meter to...
  20. dicko

    Calcium in water

    On another note re calcium in brewing water, i have recently bought two books by Gordon Strong, Brewing better Beer and Modern Homebrew Recipes. I note that in both publications in the recipe sections he does not include Calcium Sulphate in many of his recipes. Apparently many of these recipes...
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