Mill advice needed

[Dunkel]

OK, as an extract brewer, sometimes I need to crush some grain. This evening I did a porter brew, but couldn't find the rolling pin (which method isn't great, IMHO). So stuffed the grain into a ziplock bag, and used the side head of a hammer. Fairly disasterous (spelling?), with a lot of uncrushed grain, also a lot of flour. So I need a simple grain mill. Bearing in mind I will not be crushing more than about half a kilo of grain, and don't want to spend too much money, is this any good?
http://www.homebrewwest.ie/grain-mill-1546-p.asp

[Ciderhead]

Go to the front page of the forum type in Corona and you will get your answer, several in fact.

[Dunkel]

Thanks CH, order going in very shortly. BTW, is that the type that Partridge9 was using at the RDS?

[Ciderhead]

Yep
They are the step before you you spend over 100 snots
Look up the intructables on the mods it will bring 50% more to the mill

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Bearing in mind I will not be crushing more than about half a kilo of grain, and don't want to spend too much money, is this any good?
http://www.homebrewwest.ie/grain-mill-1546-p.asp

I have that mill, it is good for the volumes you talk about. And you can get a very fine crush, if you are mashing in a bag.

I have crushed full batch IPAs with it (about 6.5Kg of grain), and that can get tedious. Even when I was spinning it like I was trying to hoist a spinnaker it took me over 30 mins to fully crush the grain. I now buy all my base malt pre-crushed and only mill my specialty malts.

It has a few other annoying issues with it:

- the feed hopper is too small
- the dispense end is not ducted, so without a proper workbench setup you can't feed into a deep container
- you can get grains spat backwards from the mill, which can make a mess

all the same though, I find it a good mill, but if I was doing larger batches I would probably want a mill that can take torque from a cordless drill

[Covey]

Hi,
Have a look at this threads, im happy with it. I use a drill and get through a full grain bill in less than 15 that even with refilling the hopper twice. The Hopper holds about 3kgs.

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,3696.msg47221.html#msg47221

[Blueshed]

got the same mill as a birthday present http://www.homebrewwest.ie/grain-mill-1546-p.asp

used it for the first time yesterday and found I had a lot of dust from just 400g of grain, used 2 muslin bags when steeping the grain.

plan on a 2nd brew this wend so will play around with it a bit more.