How do you clean your grain mill?

I recently mounted my Corona type mill into a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket and am wondering how thorough I have to be with cleaning in between brews.

When you are done with your grain mill or more specifically your grain mill bucket how do you clean it? I could spray it with water but I'm afraid this will lead to rusting of the corona mill. I'm not opposed to just letting it sit uncleaned but I don't know if it will get funky in between brews. Suggestions.........

i rarely clean it at all after brewing. sometimes ill give it a few blasts outside with a compressed air computer cleaning can thing, but that's it. if it gets rusty or nasty on the rollers, i will run some extra grain or some rice through it before my next batch.

air compressor

I clean mine after every use by blowing it out with an air compressor outside.

Just this weekend I had an unfortunate situation develop that involved running a small amount of wet chocolate malt through my Barley Crusher....let me just say as a warning to others: DON'T DO THAT. Huge mistake.

I ended up taking the mill apart and using a regular screwdriver to remove some of the tougher bits stuck between the rollers and the casing, scrubbing off all the removable surfaces, and running a couple of pounds of 2-row through the mill in an attempt to get everything back together and functioning properly again. Oh, and I had to readjust the gaps on the rollers to put them back to normal.

I usually will just brush off all dust, etc with a paint brush.

Or, if you do, just run dry grain through it.

Lots of folks wet condition their malt prior to milling. of course, they don;t saturate the garin first though.

Clean paint brush (used just for this purpose). I just brush it out as best I can.

Or, if you do, just run dry grain through it.

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Tried that; one of the rollers wouldn't even turn again until I took it apart and cleaned it out.

Munsoned said:

Clean paint brush (used just for this purpose). I just brush it out as best I can.

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Yeah, I bought a new paint brush at the dollar store. After I crush, I just brush off any bits on/in it.

Kilted Brewer said:

I usually will just brush off all dust, etc with a paint brush.

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Seems like this is a popular choice. It's funny but a paint brush is actually how I cleaned it last night and had never heard anyone mention this before. I guess we are on the same wavelength....... trippy man.

Are you supposed to to clean those? Fire kills everything...lol

blow it out with an air compressor

I just don't clean it. There is a very light coating of dust on it, and I imagine that the next time I crush grain, it will get replaced with new dust. The old, stale dust is veyr likely not going to be enough to affect the beer.

So, I just shake all of the loose grains out and put it back in the grain tote.

I dont clean it, I just get a new one every 6 months

Parts cleaning brush, similar to http://www.solobrushes.com/Family.asp?FamilyID=116&Cat1ID=9&Cat2ID=32

+45, paint brush.