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
Go to the front page of the forum type in Corona and you will get your answer, several in fact.
Thanks CH, order going in very shortly. BTW, is that the type that Partridge9 was using at the RDS?
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
Quote from: Dunkel on September 15, 2013, 12:32:27 AM
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
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
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.