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Dave-Leeds

grain mill

Post by Dave-Leeds » Thu May 21, 2015 9:36 pm

Does any1 know the best place to get a decent grain mill.

About 70 to 100 quid

Cheers

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Re: grain mill

Post by BenB » Thu May 21, 2015 9:55 pm


Dave-Leeds

Re: grain mill

Post by Dave-Leeds » Thu May 21, 2015 9:58 pm

Was looking at that Ben. Seems to be popular choice

Cxp073

Re: grain mill

Post by Cxp073 » Mon May 25, 2015 9:55 pm

I use the brewferm malt mill and love it. I have a review on my blog if your interested. Http://grizzlybearloveskolsch.com

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Re: grain mill

Post by DeadFall » Tue May 26, 2015 9:17 am

Another happy customer here. Don't forget to get some feeler gauges. I also recommend conditioning the malt to get a better crush as it allows you to set a finer gap whilst not pulverising the husks.
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Re: grain mill

Post by Jocky » Tue May 26, 2015 8:51 pm

Cxp073 wrote:I use the brewferm malt mill and love it. I have a review on my blog if your interested. Http://grizzlybearloveskolsch.com
How'd you attach your drill to it?
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Re: grain mill

Post by Wonkydonkey » Tue May 26, 2015 9:02 pm

Looks like the Chinese type I got, it just slips over the shaft,, oo-err misses :lol: . Not that I got a misses from China #-o
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Re: grain mill

Post by Dave-Leeds » Tue May 26, 2015 9:23 pm

cheers guys.looks like ill buy this 1 when i sort a bit of room out

does this shop supply feeler gauges deadfall

cheers

Cxp073

Re: grain mill

Post by Cxp073 » Tue May 26, 2015 9:35 pm

Jocky wrote:
Cxp073 wrote:I use the brewferm malt mill and love it. I have a review on my blog if your interested. Http://grizzlybearloveskolsch.com
How'd you attach your drill to it?
Take the manual handle off, and tighten the drill head onto the shaft. No modification necessary (just remember to charge your drill ;)

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Re: grain mill

Post by DeadFall » Tue May 26, 2015 9:52 pm

no, I got mine from ebay. They're only a few £££, you only need to go up to a 1mm.
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Re: grain mill

Post by hebbstar » Wed May 27, 2015 8:30 am

If you're going to attach a drill set the torque to the right setting just in case there's any stones in the grain that could cause a jam.

If not the drill may spin around uncontrollably with the mill on the end spraying grain everywhere, bitter experience!! Especially when you do it twice on the same batch #-o

Lesson learnt...

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Re: grain mill

Post by Cxp073 » Wed May 27, 2015 9:27 am

hebbstar wrote:If you're going to attach a drill set the torque to the right setting just in case there's any stones in the grain that could cause a jam.

If not the drill may spin around uncontrollably with the mill on the end spraying grain everywhere, bitter experience!! Especially when you do it twice on the same batch #-o

Lesson learnt...
I think that's an excellent piece of advice. Never happened to me, but I could see this occurring with any grain mill!

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