Milling malt with "normal" grain mill possible?

[Miraculix]

Hi!

I am thinking of buying a grain mill to mill my own flour for baking and cooking.

I thought I might buy a slightly bigger version so that I can buy malt in bulk and mill it on demand.

I biab, so I need a smaller crush anyway.

Do you guys think that this could work with a mill on the biggest setting, that wasn't designed to crush malt but for grinding grains like wheat to flour?

 

[jschein]

How about a corona mill? They are made to make flour and are great for biab. There are a few threads here detailing how to make a larger hopper and attach a drill. They are inexpensive and last a long time.

 

[RM-MN]

I use a Corona mill for BIAB brewing. I'm not sure that you would be satisfied using it for making flour but they are very effective for BIAB and so cheap that there isn't a real reason to not get a real flour mill and a Corona mill too.

 

[Miraculix]

The real Corona Mills are hard to get in Europe.

Does anybody have experience with the following brewferm malt mill, which looks exactly the same?
https://www.brouwland.com/en/our-pr.../hobby-mills/d/brewferm-maltmill-in-cast-iron

 

[Miraculix]

Bump

 

[Immocles]

While not the same brand, I bought a knock off corona style mill (~$17) about a year ago from Walmart here in the US and it works great for biab. Looks very similar to the one in your picture. Mine is undoubtedly cheaper.
I haven't (and probably won't) use it for flour, but I'm also not as tightly set as it can be. I believe it is technically a flour mill, though.

 

[IslandLizard]

Milled malt (crushed, rather) for brewing should be much, much coarser than grain milled for baking. I don't think any mill could do both satisfactory.

The best flour mills use stones, AFAIK.
I think I paid $4.50 for a 25# sack of wheat (bread) flour here at a Sam's club.
Paying something similarly for pizza flour 20 years ago at a bakery/pizza supplier, out the back door.