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Grain Mill Modification
I am trying to evolve into an all grain brewer. Currently my brews are partial mash with an average of 4-5 pounds of grain. Not enough to pop for a supercool, motorized grain mill, but enough that I'm getting way too familar with that rolling pin.
So, what manual mill would do a decent job for me now, and be realitivly easy to convert to motorized?
I have a basic woodshop, a decent understanding of AC motors, and a bunch of odds & ends pulleys, sprokets, & other misc. electrical stuff.
Hi there, I personaly motorized a crankenstien,works mint, and will do 20 lbs in 5 min with out jamming....
Some say it looks rediculus 
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But if you confident on going all grain one day, but dont yet want to motorize it, Ive been selling the Maltmill by jsp, I sell more of the complete units,"mill/hopper/handcrank inc" .... Than down the road when you want to motorize it, you just remove the hopper and crank,add a pulley and motor too the deck... Little costly compared to the others, but in comparison too what i stock..far superior in construction.....
I had re-read your thread when you built the crankenstein, and found them on the net for around $80. I think you can buy a handle for one. I could build a hopper for it. Then motorize later.
Anyone have any thoughts on the Corona or Victoria mills?
Brewski wrote:
I had re-read your thread when you built the crankenstein, and found them on the net for around $80. I think you can buy a handle for one. I could build a hopper for it. Then motorize later.
Anyone have any thoughts on the Corona or Victoria mills?
I use a corona. It works fine depsite many peoples negative opinions.
Someday I plan to upgrade to one of the more popular mills, but its just for milling efficiency purposes because they are a little faster than the Corona. But that upgrade is at the low end of my list.
Ya think it would be worth trying to motorize a Corona? I read somewhere that someone just attached an electric drill.
I'm trying to do this on the frugal end of the spectrum, but don't want to get something that won't work later.
Brewski wrote:
Ya think it would be worth trying to motorize a Corona? I read somewhere that someone just attached an electric drill.
I'm trying to do this on the frugal end of the spectrum, but don't want to get something that won't work later.
Motorizing it will work. It certainly will save you from cranking. I still hand crank and it takes some time.
But I just try to enjoy it as part of the overall hobby.
brewchez wrote:
Brewski wrote:
Ya think it would be worth trying to motorize a Corona? I read somewhere that someone just attached an electric drill.
I'm trying to do this on the frugal end of the spectrum, but don't want to get something that won't work later.Motorizing it will work. It certainly will save you from cranking. I still hand crank and it takes some time.
But I just try to enjoy it as part of the overall hobby.
The LHBS I get my stuff at uses a corona and they have ab electric drill attached to it where the handle is. It works great.
Where can I get a used corona cheap? how much used vs new?
DC
How long does it take them to crush, say, a couple pounds? Did they build a larger hopper for it?
Brewski wrote:
How long does it take them to crush, say, a couple pounds? Did they build a larger hopper for it?
They have a plastic hopper on top of the corona. It's about the size of a gallon water bottle. It crushes pretty fast. I bought grains, about 3 pounds and crushed them all. It only took a few minutes.
I used a food processor for the grains for the pumpkin beer I just made. The LHBS didn't have the corona hooked up to the drill and there was no handle to hand crank it so I used the food processor. Worked pretty good, but I'd like to get a corona and make a hopper for it. I too want to expand into all grain gradually and would like to try half/half all grain and extract. increase it to the point I know what I'm doing instead of wastinh a whole batch not doing it right with just grains.
DC
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