We purchased a Stout 5BBL mash tun a few months back, and are currently hovering around 60% efficiency, consistently. It's a terrible problem, I know, and we haven't had time to sit down and address it. Any help or consulting on the issue would be appreciated.
Some background on our process:
1) We consistently use a sieve to measure our crush.
1) Once milling, we use a Monster Mill MM-2 Pro (6" roller) and due to its slow speeds, are forced to pre-mill into the mash tun and bottom fill from our HLT. I know using a grist hydrator is ideal, and this could be the source of the problem, but we haven't been able to rig anything up and would likely need to swap out our mill.
2) The false bottom we have is letting a lot of husks through the filter. Vorlauf can go sometimes up to an hour and usually fails to clear up. We use a secondary mesh filter during our sparge to catch the final husks that make it through.
I'm curious if anyone has had similar issues, or know of ways to help increase our efficiency. My assumption is that bottom filling is the problem.
Any ideas or leads would be super helpful.
Thanks,
Jeff
Portage Brewing Co.
Some background on our process:
1) We consistently use a sieve to measure our crush.
1) Once milling, we use a Monster Mill MM-2 Pro (6" roller) and due to its slow speeds, are forced to pre-mill into the mash tun and bottom fill from our HLT. I know using a grist hydrator is ideal, and this could be the source of the problem, but we haven't been able to rig anything up and would likely need to swap out our mill.
2) The false bottom we have is letting a lot of husks through the filter. Vorlauf can go sometimes up to an hour and usually fails to clear up. We use a secondary mesh filter during our sparge to catch the final husks that make it through.
I'm curious if anyone has had similar issues, or know of ways to help increase our efficiency. My assumption is that bottom filling is the problem.
Any ideas or leads would be super helpful.
Thanks,
Jeff
Portage Brewing Co.
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