Well, we have a long weekend coming up at the end of the week and I've decided that at least one day will be dedicated to making another stout. I started preparing today by milling the malt. I've 
had some diffi
culty with this recently due to some fairly extensive wear on the shaft of the mills roller. This is where the electric drill is attached making it difficult to get the drill to stay connected to the mill. Anyway I eventually got it milled. I decided on a finer crush as I have not been getting the expected gravities from the mash with my last couple of brews. Hopefully this will help. You can see how finely I crushed the malt in the photo. I took the opportunity whilst out in the brewery to water the hop plants in their temporary home. I'm a little confused as to what to do with them as we are just entering winter here and I would have thought that by now they would have gone "dormant", but that doesn't appear to be the case and they seem to be doing quite well. As I said before I'm no gardener !
had some diffi
culty with this recently due to some fairly extensive wear on the shaft of the mills roller. This is where the electric drill is attached making it difficult to get the drill to stay connected to the mill. Anyway I eventually got it milled. I decided on a finer crush as I have not been getting the expected gravities from the mash with my last couple of brews. Hopefully this will help. You can see how finely I crushed the malt in the photo. I took the opportunity whilst out in the brewery to water the hop plants in their temporary home. I'm a little confused as to what to do with them as we are just entering winter here and I would have thought that by now they would have gone "dormant", but that doesn't appear to be the case and they seem to be doing quite well. As I said before I'm no gardener !
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