Couple things. 1) The more grain weight on the auger, the harder it is to crank, (I would assume) have you run into that? 2) Fresh ground flour is only good for about 30 days from what I hear before losing it's fresh flavor. How do you store yours?

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I see you have a large plastic funnel laying on the ground. What I did was to cut the bottom of a plastic bucket so you basically have a large tube which happens to fit perfectly inside that large transfer funnel. The funnel then just sits in the provided hopper. I brew 5 gallon batches and this simple setup easily holds 15 pounds of grain. I have also built a simple wooden frame that the mill can sit very low in another bucket with the bolt which I chuck into my drill just above the lip of the holding bucket. I just acquired a motor from a treadmill and am thinking about adding a pulley in place of the handle as my next mod.

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Prost , just subscribed after finding your channel , we home brew beer make meads and wine , grow some hops, stop back and sub back if you can friend .

I make bread with my spent grain from beer it is great

How many times did you rack the apple raspberry? Looks awesome right now!

That galvanize elbow is very toxic. Other than that, Very Nice!

Cheers on the beers

So there are different types of hops here. I'm under the impression that to be a SMaSH (Single Malt and Single Hops) beer it needs to be only one type....

Thanks! Gonna build one like this with a few modifications.

I have a similar problem. I tried to use your solution, however on my phone, which is an Android, but not Motorola Droid, the disable button was....disabled. So my problem continues. Suggestions, anyone?

Thanks for the update James! Don't worry about vids, just put them up when you can! Sounds like you had a great summer! Whew, really great! Cheers and hhbw!

Can I just say I love you right now haha <3 I would NEVER have thought about attaching a mill to a piece of board and putting it over a bucket but seriously you're genius. I was thinking about buying a mill like this to grind wet corn into masa and one of my concerns is my countertop. Well this not only fixes that but I could watch tv and grind corn this way lol ^_^

Nice one and i look forward to seeing the finished wine Martin

Glad to see all is well. Family and work always comes first. Cheers and hope your getting time to watch your Lions games.

Hey! My dad and I were just talking about you! We were wondering where you went, but knew you had a busy summer on the go. Great to see you though! We still have your ciders, since we wanted to make sure you were going to be able to catch the vids when we have them. Don't worry about vids, just do them when you can. We'll be here and tune in. Cheers!!!

Well you could say you had the summer off but I think ye have done more than most of us.... lol.. Good to see ye back. HHBW

glad to see you back! have you tried the "cider" yeast from white labs? i saw it the other day at my lhbs. cheers

OK... your absence is excused... for now! Sounds like a great summer and you should be in great shape. Cheers James!

Happy Homebrew Wednesday! Would be interested to see how far you've come on that big fermenter, if there is any change. Cheers!

Good to see you online again man! Cheers!

good too seeee u baaack man

Welcome Back Bro

Great Vid... Just a quick question.. How many cups of sugar would you need to BATCH Prime a 5gal. Batch Of cider?... ( I have always bottle primed..but would like to try batch priming) Thanx....Keep the vids comin CHEERS

Sweet video man! I am lovin me some ciders right now. I kept getting asked what I do to be successful in home brew competitions, so I decided I need to make a series of videos showing what I do. Check it out How I Win Medals. Part 1: The Brew Day

Looked like a solid beer. Cheers

I was sad to see comments that the beer was flat and no head. I was telling Nate that I accidentally over carbed when I was trying to bottle using the beer gun it was foaming like mad. So I let the keg sit at low CO2 for a couple days to try and get the carb down and I think that might have a little reason why you guys are getting flatter beers. It sounds like the flavor and aroma are hitting the marks, if it smells and tastes like a pumpkin pie then I succeeded. Thanks for the review, Cheers!

sucks about the carbonation! does sound like a good brew, just not carbed up! nice review! cheers!

The hub of BIPAs for sure. Three black IPAs is crazy for one region, but we did have a pretty nice variety I thought. Would have been nice to see a porter in the mix. I got a lot more malts on this one than hops... Very cold to see the different palates picking things up. Cheers!!

Good Review. This was my first Pumpkin Ale also. I think that the pumpkin fruit kills the head a bit. After it warmed a bit it seemed like it formed more head. I pictured an actual Pumpkin Cream Pie when I tried it.

Nice review. I liked this one a lot.

nice label! welcome to the hub of bipa's!! haha yeah, its common to not have the malts when making this, I made one, f-n fantastic, did it for the challenge, all hops! don't know what I did! oh well! cheers!

MIA is cool.. well all have non-brewing life, sort of. I hope ye had a good 4th. Just goes to show how all tastes are personal. HHBW

I know that label... interesting to see the review. Cheers

wow, I thought I've seen this with more head! nice review and seeya at the next one! cheers!

looks like this one is in style for a cream! nice review! cheers! btw love that label!

I like pumkin beers with age. Cheers

wow, beautiful poured beer! nice review! cheers!

I really dig the label on this one. Hope to give it a try one day. Cheers

Well thank you sir! If you did indeed drink it all night, you would be feeling no pain ;) at 8.4% she'll sneak up on ya. Thanks for the kind words. I agree it needs some more carb. The pilot batch of this was perfectly carbed, and I followed pretty much the same carbonation schedule. Not sure what happened. Oh well. Cheers Mr Sparty!!

sucks about the carbonation. wonder if you had a leaker, tyler usually does a really good job and i'm sure he bottles from the keg! cheers!

Sounds like a nice light summer brew! Cheers!

Oh and by the way this review was number 100 in the play list I'm putting together.

That's a great cream ale color to it. Cream Ale's are pretty much all about the corn. The hops are usually in there for a crispness. Cheers

I love stouts! I feel like grabbing right now because of this review! LOL Well done, Cheers

Sounds very busy over there! Which ride did you do? How long? I need to get on my bike a lot more. They are sad machines right now! Cheers!

Black IPAs seem like a midwesttheme! Cheers!

Good luck with the SJPorr challenge

Brilliant labels. HHB