Newbie needs milling help

[wmarkw]

I had a work buddy pick up some supplies for me at a LHBS in his home town which is 70 miles from me. He brought me my order today and unfortunately the malts I ordered were not milled. So they look like seed pods basically. I'm only brewing a gallon and from searching around here I think I can crush/roll the malt to break them up? Is the idea to pop the seeds if that makes sense? Thanks.

Cystal Malt 10 & 60 1lb ea
Chocolate Malt 1lb
Brewers 2 Row 2lb

Hope this makes sense!

 

[eastoak]

a roller and a plastic bag should do the trick.

 

[Calder]

Crush the inside fine and leave the husk as whole as possible. You extract the starches/sugars from the kernel, so you need that to be crushed well, and you use the husk to filter the left over material when sparging.

 

[wilserbrewer]

You need to fully expose the inside of the grain. Just my opinion, but i know others have had success using a blender and pulsing the blender with a few handfuls of grain at a time. Hand crushing with a roller is tedious and difficult to get a thorough crush. That is a helluva lot of crytal and chocolate for a 1 gallon batch??

 

[wmarkw]

I dont need the full pound; the only way i could order it. thanks for the help!