Accidentally ordered uncrushed grains

It was only three pounds of my grain bill. I managed to order crushed grains for the base malt. Anyone have suggestions for how I could crush my specialty without a mill??

I think some folks have done with a rolling pin

We once used multiple ziplock bags and a brick. It seemed to work but the grains were for steeping in an extract brew.

food processor, drink blender, coffee grinder, etc.

I vote rolling pin with the grains in a Ziploc. I imagine it will take some time to crush +/- 10# of grain.

Rolling pin until you decide they are not crushed well enough and then a food processor/blender (on pulse).

Where are you OP? Maybe you are close to someone with a mill? I'd be happy to crush your grain...

Cheers!

Just put a cup at a time in a blender and do 5-6 four second pulses. Use to do it all the time when I did BIAB and my beers turned out fine.

day_trippr said:

Where are you OP? Maybe you are close to someone with a mill? I'd be happy to crush your grain...

Cheers!

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Same here

If you can find one, a beer bottle works better than a rolling pin. The grains can be harder than the wood or plastic of the rolling pin.

day_trippr said:

Where are you OP? Maybe you are close to someone with a mill? I'd be happy to crush your grain...

Cheers!

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Thank you all. I'm in Silver Spring, Md.

stpug said:

Rolling pin until you decide they are not crushed well enough and then a food processor/blender (on pulse).

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+1, not that i would know

You wanna come up to Frederick MD I'll crush em for you.

Down in Woodbridge, VA, you can use my crusher.

LHBS in Columbia. Call and ask if you can use their grinder. Might be a small fee, but Sundays are usually slow and the people are nice.

masonsjax said:

You wanna come up to Frederick MD I'll crush em for you.

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Thank you. Very generous. I found someone in my neighborhood who has one.

Sheldon said:

Down in Woodbridge, VA, you can use my crusher.

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Thanks for the offer!

Was aboutv to offer the use of mine too. Glad you managed to get it crushed. LHBS's will usually run them through the mill for you, and I have used the beer bottle in a ziplock method (ordered a kit, got it uncrushed when I asked for crushed, got it replaced with crushed, decided to brew with the grains anyway. Did ok.) just make sure you do it a little at a time.

day_trippr said:

Where are you OP? Maybe you are close to someone with a mill? I'd be happy to crush your grain...

Cheers!

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funny you just mentioned the old thread links for this..... @Joshua Hughes ....hope this helps....something else to try would be a partial mash sorta, boil 1.5lb's of the malt, or step it first then, once it's good and gel'd, add the other .5lbs for the enzymes to convert it....