Grain Milling The Hard Way!

[chucke]

Save yourself a lot of aggravation, go ahead and buy a proper malt mill.
If there's one piece of kit that you splurge on; let this be the one.

Look, I'm the cheapest guy I know.
I held out for months, trying this and that to avoid coughing up the greenbacks to buy a mill.
In the end, it just had to be bought.
Now that I have one, I kick myself for not buying it sooner.

 

[lefty2446]

Thanks for the advice, I'm just hanging back from spending the cash until I taste the benefits and decide its for me!! As a side topic, at what point do you stop grinding the grain? I take it you don't want any flour??

With my crush I aim for all grains to be squashed. If you look at the crushed grain and it's flat with a split down the side the water can get in and the wort can come out. Thats it, Thats all you need.
That's what we used to look for on the farm milling grain for the cows. If it is squashed and open than you can extract the goodies from the grain.

If you grind it into a pulp and have hardly any whole husk matter remaining then you will end up like my last batch ( crushing barley and rye together) and the sparge stuck, lost efficiency etc.

HTH, Happy brewing.

Lefty