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yeah, get ourselves a little metalworking milling machine (I'm sure lidl will have one soon <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: --> ) for fancy knurling and away we go! "The Irish Malt Mill Co."

or did you mean we could buy grain and mill it with our little pasta makers and sell it on? Christ it took me long enough to do 4.5 kg the other day. Not as bad as all the americans whinge about though on the forums, this hand milling. it's ok.

I like it. Nice ring to it too.
Suppose both could be an option! I think a drill might be in order to hurry things along or else I could end up with one very well built arm...and trying to explain to people how I didn't build it the way they are thinking <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt="" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: -->

&amp;quot;RichieH&amp;quot;:81zv6uxe wrote: Yeah- greencore are a huge maltster. You'd have to buy by the tonne and I guess it can go off, so you'd need to be sure you could shift it. But I never understood why thehomebrewcompany didn't buy bulk hops and malt and repackage it into 10 and 20 kg malt bags. At least mezamo is starting to fill our hoppy lacuna[/quote:81zv6uxe]

I think HBC might be re-packaging hops. My first hops from there came in foil vacuum packs labelled by Brupak. The last lot had a brandless label in a diy vacuum-ish bag.

My pasta maker wouldn't grind grain for me <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

Anyways I have been searching and haven't yet found anything of an sort of reasonable price for milling , and I seriously cannot understand why not , it's not like they are extremely high tech, and there isn't that much raw materials in them .

I'd say it's something that will plague me for some time .



Oh and unmilled grain will keep good for years as long as kept dry cool and sealed away.

&amp;quot;Wallacebiy&amp;quot;:1c6qe6qk wrote: My pasta maker wouldn't grind grain for me <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->[/quote:1c6qe6qk]

yes it will, but you need to rough up the rollers a bit. As it is they're way too smooth. What I did was take it apart and grind the rollers with a sharpening stone drill bit, but that wasn't enough so I put it back together and attacked it with a drill <!-- s:twisted: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif" alt="" title="Twisted Evil" /><!-- s:twisted: --> which worked. You need to get the drill inbetween the rollers and jiggle it about til they're all scraped up. Obviously you can't use it for pasta no more but hey, they're only 30€ and less when laldi have them. Then I fixed it to a plywood base with a hole in it instead of the normal base, and I sit that over a plastic box when milling. I got 74% efficiency and not a hint of a stuck sparge. I think the efficiency is down to less than optimal copper manifold in the mash tun and not the crush which looked good.