I feel like this is kind of a dumb question, but... I just got a grain mill, so I'm planning to mill my own grains going forward (that is, after all, the reason I bought it). But what about flaked wheat/oats/barley? It seems it's already been processed in such a way as to make it "available," for lack of a better word, to the mash. Are those to be milled, or not, or does it really matter?
Milling flaked grains?
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Nope. No need. They turn to mush all on their own, no need to gum up your mill...
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Just make sure you add rice hulls to your mash!
Just make sure you add rice hulls to your mash!
Conventional mash tun or BIAB? For a conventional mash tun you do not want to mill the flaked grains, they are already milled enough. If you get too much fine material in the mash it can clog up the drain.
BIAB can work with much finer milling of the grains and get higher efficiency because of that and since finer milling is available, I'd mill the flaked grains too.
That's a good point--it will be BIAB.
