Shane is getting his hops from a new supplier alright, hence why they're only 5-6 euro now.
He says as well as the better price, they're much fresher too!
I'm due some simco tomorrow, and am really looking forward to it!
He is thinking of doing something similar with the grain, but hasn't go the time for all that crushing!!
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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.[/quote:1j3n5p6d]
Aha,
Maybe I won't do that with the expensive marga roller , but I'll bear it in mind for the next time I see ne in lidl.
Or I might just go to a fabricators and get a big one made up , and stick a motor on it .
&quot;Wallacebiy&quot;:1wmgd4m7 wrote: Maybe I won't do that with the expensive marga roller , but I'll bear it in mind for the next time I see ne in lidl.
Or I might just go to a fabricators and get a big one made up , and stick a motor on it .[/quote:1wmgd4m7]
yes don't do it with a proper roller. there's quite a long post on it here [url:1wmgd4m7]http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/using-pasta-maker-mill-grain-75784/[/url:1wmgd4m7]
you can probably pick up a cheap one in a department store. Getting rollers milled is expensive, and you'd still have to mount it up on ball bearings etc. by the time you did that you'd be as well off ordering one of the $150 ones from america. You could bring the rollers from the pasta maker to a machinist to get a nice professional cross hatch style knurling done, but that's probably expensive too. and attacking things with drills is fun.
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