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Offline flbrewer

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Double Crushing Grain
« on: October 18, 2014, 08:37:39 am »
Last question (lord willing) before I get rocking here this morning...how less efficient will single crushed grains be in a BIAB vs double crushed? I have 3# of crushed which is like to use (organic) and 3 # of locally double crushed grain. I only need 3.5-4 # for the recipe (not home forgot).

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Re: Double Crushing Grain
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2014, 08:44:20 am »
Depends on the mill. If the mill is set well, a double crush should not be necessary.

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Re: Double Crushing Grain
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2014, 09:31:17 am »
Depends on the mill. If the mill is set well, a double crush should not be necessary.

Yep.

In general, I would say that your efficiency can increase by as much as 10-15% with a double crush if a single crush on the same mill is subpar.  YMMV
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Re: Double Crushing Grain
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2014, 10:03:10 am »
Last question (lord willing) before I get rocking here this morning...how less efficient will single crushed grains be in a BIAB vs double crushed? I have 3# of crushed which is like to use (organic) and 3 # of locally double crushed grain. I only need 3.5-4 # for the recipe (not home forgot).

There's really no way of answering that.  It depends on your system and process.  It could range from 0 to a lot!
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Re: Double Crushing Grain
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2014, 10:18:47 am »


In general, I would say that your efficiency can increase by as much as 10-15% with a double crush if a single crush on the same mill is subpar. 


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Re: Double Crushing Grain
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2014, 12:27:07 pm »
Depends on the mill. If the mill is set well, a double crush should not be necessary.

Yep.

In general, I would say that your efficiency can increase by as much as 10-15% with a double crush if a single crush on the same mill is subpar.  YMMV
Sounds about right to me. Before I got my own mill my efficiencies would run from 72% up to 86% depending on where I got my grain from.
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