Milling Grain

[RobinW]

I've just started milling my own grain.
I'm wondering if I should be milling each grain with a different roller gap.
I noticed today a few caramunich 2 grains dropped straight through the rollers.
I've just been putting them all into the mill bin and milling the lot.
Should I be milling them individually?

Beersmith says todays mash efficiency was 83.3%.
That's with a herms coil.

Yesterday was 54% with a non herms stepped pilsner mash.
It truely is a crap cooler.

 

[Brewman_]

Depending on the grain and the brewing equipment. to be used.

With my Roppi 1100, I crack each grain essentially differently. Like grains milled together and the different sized ones separately with a different roller gap depending on the customers requirements, that is they specify their crack

Also multiple cracks / passes through the mill for some requirements.

 

[pcqypcqy]

Yeah, i've been reading up on this. About to do some rye IPA's over summer and from what I understand they're a different grain size entirely, so I'll be milling my base malts first, and then the rye separately on a different setting.

 

[Garfield]

I'm curious about this as well. I've just bought my first mill but not sure where to start. A brewer once told me the ideal crack is to break a grain into about 8 parts. Is anyone familiar with this method?

Garf

 

[Sprungmonkey]

I always work off 1/3 husk 1/3 starchy endosperm 1/3 flour