Kitchen Aid Grain Mill attatchment

[happyinsonoma]

I had my first mishap as many probably who ever get to meet me I'm a bit of an eager person to say the least. Always excited to jump into something with both feet, which of course... well... I learn as I make mistakes, it works for me, haha.

Anyways, I was brewing and realized that i forgot to mill one of the grains so I wanted to make sure it never happened again so I was looking into milling options. This occurred to me during my amazon search that i could use the motor on the kitchen aid.

Has anyone used this? I was thinking of making a small stack of books under it to raise it to the level I needed to fill into a bucket or something and power that baby on and not have to worry about a drill which seemed tiresome for 20# of grain. The other mills were pretty expensive. This attatchment was 94.00 I think.

Will this work for good grain milling?

 

[samc]

Spend the extra few $$ and buy a Barley Crusher or wait to find one used for about the same as the Kitchen Aid attachment which would probably not work very well. As I recall it is for milling to flour, from fine to coarse, not crushing.

 

[SD-SLIM]

A blender does a better job than a kitchen aid...I agree with samc, spend the extra money for the right equipment. For $30 more here is a good one: http://www.rebelbrewer.com/shoppingcart/products/Barley-Crusher-Malt-Mill-%2d-7-lb-Hopper.html

 

[happyinsonoma]

Perfect answers, thank you! New question, if you were to buy one, which one would you buy if it was going to be the one you wanted?

 

[wildwest450]

60+ batches with a barley crusher and no problems yet.

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[rico567]

We have the Kitchen aid K5A, and have used it, and several of the attachments, for over 35 years. However, We don't own the grain milling attachment, nor would I buy it for nearly $100. If I insisted on a mill designed for the purpose of milling malt, I'd buy a Barley Crusher (or one of its equivalents, but I think it's the best deal). However- the fact is that I'm too cheap for that. I bought a Corona-type mill for $23 delivered from Discount Tommy on eBay, mounted it in a 5 gal. bucket (so everything stays inside), and run it with an old Craftsman 1/2" drill. I don't care what anyone says about the Corona-type mills, mine does a fine job, and I hit all my numbers while brewing, which is all I ask.