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Grain Bill Question
« on: February 04, 2015, 01:54:07 pm »
Very excited to say I received a box of various un-milled grains today! This may seem obvious, but is there any preferred way to mill the grains? For example, should I mix all of the grain together then pour it in the mill or can I just grind it one type at a time and mix it up?

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Re: Grain Bill Question
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2015, 01:57:55 pm »
I do a quick mix, mill, then mash. I'm fairly sure that between the milling and the mash stiring the grains get well mixed. I might be more cautious if there was a lot of grain with no diastatic power, like unmalted wheat.

Grinding separate would probably work, though some grains are harder and once I heard a complaint that chocolate malt would gum up a mill. Not sure if that's true, but mixing with base malt seems to solve it.
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Re: Grain Bill Question
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2015, 01:59:21 pm »
I mill together. The only exception is small grains like wheat and rye. Those I double mill vs. adjusting my mill to accommodate.

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Re: Grain Bill Question
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2015, 02:01:31 pm »
I mill together. The only exception is small grains like wheat and rye. Those I double mill vs. adjusting my mill to accommodate.

So the torrified wheat that I have?

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Re: Grain Bill Question
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2015, 02:07:44 pm »
I mill together. The only exception is small grains like wheat and rye. Those I double mill vs. adjusting my mill to accommodate.

So the torrified wheat that I have?
If it is smaller than a grain of barley malt, I mill twice. I mill the small grains and then re-mill with the rest of the grains.

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Re: Grain Bill Question
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2015, 06:50:42 am »
I mill together. The only exception is small grains like wheat and rye. Those I double mill vs. adjusting my mill to accommodate.

So the torrified wheat that I have?
If it is smaller than a grain of barley malt, I mill twice. I mill the small grains and then re-mill with the rest of the grains.

+1 i like to really bust up the smaller wheat kernels.
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