We would love to get some help with the efficiency of our brew house. We've tried everything from grinding up our grain very fine, to having the malt house mill the grain, to doing as wet of a mash as our mash tun will hold. We've tried to slow our sparging down, not use a pump for the first part of the transfer and let gravity even the tanks out. Still, we stay in the 60% to even 55% efficiency range. It not only makes producing this brew more expensive, we struggle with getting anything above 6.5%. We have been up and brewing for about 6 months now and cannot figure this out. The brewhouse is a psycho brew 7 bbl (2x 3.5 bbls). I met with a brewer from not too far away that has a 5 bbl similar system and he gets close to 80% efficiency. We couldn't figure out what the issue was so I assumed it was in the milling. Well our last batch was milled at the malt house and we only hit 60% efficiency.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. The only thing we have not tried is to get a cement like this one https://www.amazon.com/Goplus-Electr...NsaWNrPXRydWU=which was suggested to do when we are mashing in. Right now we are manually mixing the grain in. Although I think we are doing a good job at mixing, I'm sure something motor powered will help. Anybody brewing on a similar system that can give some pointers?
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. The only thing we have not tried is to get a cement like this one https://www.amazon.com/Goplus-Electr...NsaWNrPXRydWU=which was suggested to do when we are mashing in. Right now we are manually mixing the grain in. Although I think we are doing a good job at mixing, I'm sure something motor powered will help. Anybody brewing on a similar system that can give some pointers?
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