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Someone with a bit more experience have a look at these things for me
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Austrian company , prices look good ( 126 for that flaker )

Interested though , I take it that a stone mill like the rest of their range would be of no use to us brewers .

it is tiny

&amp;quot;bigears&amp;quot;:1lchuzjc wrote: Wonder what the shipping would be if a few people were ordering? I imagine a large portion of that price is shipping.[/quote:1lchuzjc]

Here is the break down

114.50 US Dollars for the mill and 67.50 US Dollars for shipping

I'm only a kit brewer at the moment moving onto extract soon and I won't be doing all-grain for a good while yet (just so you know). Anywho, my uncle (who's a farmer) rolls barley for feeding cattle. The grain comes out crushed with no dust or fraying. The roller is a fairly heavy (and big!) piece of machinery that is run off the PTO shaft of the tractor. The barley is in a big pile on the floor (we're talking a couple of tons of the stuff, you feed the roller with a sort of an electric Archimedes pump) and you'd easily roll 70-80 kgs before every feeding. I was just wondering would this be of any use? If someone could show me a picture of the optimum rolled malt I could tell you if its close to what comes out of this roller.

Something like this, enough to open up the grain but to keep the husk intact

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Just had a quick think about it, gotta remember my Beer 101. These barley grains are ungerminated (one of the things you have to look out for is heating in the barley pile because that causes the grains to germinate) so its probably a different thing altogether. The grains come out more rolled than that, more like muslei (well, we are feeding it to cattle <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> ). Though saying that, the rollers can be moved (we've had problems with it not rolling the barley enough for feeding purposes and we moved them closer together). I'll have a closer look next time I'm up there.