How do you do it?

[PoppaW]

For the micro and nano. Here I am mashing and squeezing my grain with a seive and spoon. How do you do it on a bigger scale? Getting my 10 gallons in the fermentor was a bit of work. And I thought how big would your spoon be for a 300-600 liter batch. Haha. Do you just accept some loss? More than me percentage wise.

[Expat]

Paint strainer bag and a mop wringer. Makes short work of wet grains. Lots of threads around for the details.

55 gallon batches no problem.

[PoppaW]

I saw those and feel the need to get a new mop bucket. I thought maybe the micros has something more high tech or stainless. Haha

[Expat]

I saw those and feel the need to get a new mop bucket. I thought maybe the micros has something more high tech or stainless. Haha

If it's not barley, you could put the whole lot of it in a thumper and skip squeezing. Steam extract.

[The Baker]

I saw those and feel the need to get a new mop bucket. I thought maybe the micros has something more high tech or stainless. Haha

If it's not barley, you could put the whole lot of it in a thumper and skip squeezing. Steam extract.

And if it is barley?
Does it clog up or something?

Geoff

[Tummydoc]

Beer brewers worry about tannin extraction from the husk over 170f. I run bourbon grain bills, grind everything to a flour or fine meal, ferment on the grain and distill with grain in the thumper. Don't detect any tannin astringency in the product.

[Yonder]

For a small batch, 8 gals or so, a 10 gal cooler with a false bottom covered with a .9mm ss screen. When your done fermenting, attach a pump to the valve and transfer your clean wash to the boiler. Give it an an hours rest and hit the pump again for a few seconds. Never a problem. Leaves the grain bone dry and your charge clean. No squeezin’, no drippin’, no sticky hands.

[seabass]

The pro's ferment and distill on the grain if it's not a high percentage barley. Skip the squeeze step and just put everything in the still assuming it won't scorch.

For smaller batches, it's the mop bucket or putting slop in a thumper.