The Mill Ready To Go

I purchased a baby scale at a garage sale for five bucks ..... errrrr was it two? It has a tare adjustment so that I can zero out the weight of the bucket.

My batches normally require about twenty plus pounds of grain. A five gallon pale seemed large enough to handle it. But, after the grain is crushed, guess what? Its volume increases to about six gallons. That's why I use seven gallon buckets.

Procedure:

• Set the pale on the scale and pour in base grain until scale reads 21 lbs.
• Power up the mill.
• Pour half of the measured base malt into the the hopper.
• Pour in the specialty grains
• Pour the rest of the base grain into the hopper.
• Before you can put the cover on your malt storage bin your grain is crushed. Way cool.