Using Scales Instead Of A Sight Glass..

[kymba]

measure your volumes once and go to town with a centre punch, or a number punch

could also try a donkey punch?

 

[Pat Casey]

Which malt? BB Pale? Weyermann Boh Pils? BB Wheat? Simpsons Naked Golden Oats?

All irrelevant really, as we're after strike/mash/sparge water volumes, not grain volumes.

What point are you trying to make Pat?

Cheers

The thread started off with GuySmiley bemoaning the inadequacy of his scales for weighing malt. Measuring grain by volume is fast and easy.

Pat

 

[bignath]

could also try a donkey punch?

:lol: :lol: i laughed real hard and my ass literally fell off at this....

 

[QldKev]

The thread started off with GuySmiley bemoaning the inadequacy of his scales for weighing malt. Measuring grain by volume is fast and easy.

Pat

But extremely inaccurate,

If you want to measure grain by vol, we could also say 1 pellet of of hops weight 4grams

QldKev

 

[Pat Casey]

But extremely inaccurate,

If you want to measure grain by vol, we could also say 1 pellet of of hops weight 4grams

QldKev

Kevin, are you speaking from experience or prejudice?

Pat

 

[Zizzle]

measure your volumes once and go to town with a centre punch, or a number punch

Or use a Dremel to grind some marks.

 

[Parks]

Kevin, are you speaking from experience or prejudice?

Pat

I know for a fact this is poor advice. Some of my grains I get 2kg in a 4L ice cream bucket fairly level, others I need to overfill the icecream bucket for them to fit.

Maybe your a talking about dried extract, in which case you're more likely to be consistent.

 

[QldKev]

Kevin, are you speaking from experience or prejudice?

Pat

I use a 1.2L jug to pickup the grain, I find a variation of up to 100g between malts, try say a dark crystal against a BB Pale. I've shoveled at least a tonne of grain with my little jug over the years. Also in-case any new people are reading, wheat although technically not is malted grain is a lot heavier than the other grains.

So I would say experience.

I'll even add I've written software for grain silos, although these were not malted barley, there was a huge difference between some grains.


QldKev