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Malt Milling in Micro Brewery
- Apr 27, 2019
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Malt Milling in Micro Brewery
The objective of milling is to reduce the malt to particles sizes, which will yield the most economic extract (wort) and will operate satisfactorily under brewhouse conditions and throughout the brewing process. The more extensive the malt is milled, the greater the extract production. However, the fine grind can lead to subsequent wort separation problems and a loss of extract in the spent grains during wort separation. As a result, the brewer needs to consider the equipment used in the brewhouse when determining the particle size when milling the malt. For example, mash tuns require comparatively coarse grists while lauter tuns can use finer grists and mash filters still finer grists.
Dry Milling
In breweries, dry milling is commonly performed by roller mills or hammer mills. If the wort separation involves using a mash tun or lauter tun, roller mills are employed. Hammer mills are largely used for the later generation of mash filters and continuous brewing systems.
Roller Mills
Roller mills are particularly suited for milling malt when the primary objective is to leave the malt husk intact. An intact husk helps wort separation and may reduce extraction of tannins and other undesirable components.
Two-Row Mills - Two-roll mills are single-pass mills commonly used by craft breweries and/or for well-modified malts.
Multi-Row Mills - Multi-roll mills provide greater control of the rate of feed of the unground malt, the spacing between rolls, and the rate of speed, either uniform or differential, at which the rolls are driven.
Hammer Mills
A hammer mill consists of a rotor made of two or more plates with pins to carry the hammers. Hammers are simply flat metal bars with a hole at one or both ends. They may have some type of edge preparation such as hard facing or carbide coating to provide better wear resistance.
Malt Conditioning
A refinement to dry milling employed by numerous breweries is conditioning of malt with steam or warm water. This practice minimizes the risk of fracturing the malt husks, thus the husks become tougher and more flexible due to absorbed moisture, while the endosperm remains dry and friable.
Sampling
Dry milling and conditioned dry milling operations have the advantage that the crushed malt may be sampled by the brewer and assessed visually for uncrushed kernels, excessive tearing of the husks, and excessive flour.
Wet Milling
Wet milling is very common in Africa and Asia, as it simplifies the grinding, but it is not common in the United States. In a wet milling operation, the whole uncrushed malt is pre-steeped in hot water to the point where the husks reach a water content of approximately 20% and the endosperm remains nearly dry, which results in a semiplastic, almost pasty consistency.
More discussion, please feel free to email us: biz@cnbrewery.com
The objective of milling is to reduce the malt to particles sizes, which will yield the most economic extract (wort) and will operate satisfactorily under brewhouse conditions and throughout the brewing process. The more extensive the malt is milled, the greater the extract production. However, the fine grind can lead to subsequent wort separation problems and a loss of extract in the spent grains during wort separation. As a result, the brewer needs to consider the equipment used in the brewhouse when determining the particle size when milling the malt. For example, mash tuns require comparatively coarse grists while lauter tuns can use finer grists and mash filters still finer grists.
Dry Milling
In breweries, dry milling is commonly performed by roller mills or hammer mills. If the wort separation involves using a mash tun or lauter tun, roller mills are employed. Hammer mills are largely used for the later generation of mash filters and continuous brewing systems.
Roller Mills
Roller mills are particularly suited for milling malt when the primary objective is to leave the malt husk intact. An intact husk helps wort separation and may reduce extraction of tannins and other undesirable components.
Two-Row Mills - Two-roll mills are single-pass mills commonly used by craft breweries and/or for well-modified malts.
Multi-Row Mills - Multi-roll mills provide greater control of the rate of feed of the unground malt, the spacing between rolls, and the rate of speed, either uniform or differential, at which the rolls are driven.
Hammer Mills
A hammer mill consists of a rotor made of two or more plates with pins to carry the hammers. Hammers are simply flat metal bars with a hole at one or both ends. They may have some type of edge preparation such as hard facing or carbide coating to provide better wear resistance.
Malt Conditioning
A refinement to dry milling employed by numerous breweries is conditioning of malt with steam or warm water. This practice minimizes the risk of fracturing the malt husks, thus the husks become tougher and more flexible due to absorbed moisture, while the endosperm remains dry and friable.
Sampling
Dry milling and conditioned dry milling operations have the advantage that the crushed malt may be sampled by the brewer and assessed visually for uncrushed kernels, excessive tearing of the husks, and excessive flour.
Wet Milling
Wet milling is very common in Africa and Asia, as it simplifies the grinding, but it is not common in the United States. In a wet milling operation, the whole uncrushed malt is pre-steeped in hot water to the point where the husks reach a water content of approximately 20% and the endosperm remains nearly dry, which results in a semiplastic, almost pasty consistency.
More discussion, please feel free to email us: biz@cnbrewery.com
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