Northern Brewer - Hullwrecker 2-Roller Grain Mill with Metal Base and Handle

Used this for over 8 brews now… I love it, highly recommend! Great fine adjustments and very very sturdy! You won’t be disappointed, just buy it!

Grinds like a champ using my Dewalt drill.

This crusher works great. However assembly isn't so easy. You must have very nimble fingers and it may require someone to help you assemble it. I have used this a few times and note that it is much quicker than using my Green Mill on my KitchenAid mixer. There's no need to use the drill to crush your wheat it comes with a hand crank and it works just fine. Again, I would have given it a higher rating if it was easier to assemble or if it came assembled from the factory.

La calidad de este molino es impresionante! Sin duda producto recomendado.

I was impressed by how solid this mill is. Very heavy duty mechanisms. Easy assembly, although the tiny screws for the hopper were slightly difficult to fit as they were so small. Using with a ryobi cordless drill made milling grain easy, although the metal that you attach the cordless drill to is round, so my drill has a hard time grabbing on and sometimes slips until you get it just right. There is a flat area a little ways in to tighten a screw for the hand crank handle, but it doesn't do any good for a cordless drill. Crushed grain very well. Brew in a bag efficiency immediately jumped from 71% to 82-84% at the tightest setting. You do need to do two passes with the grain as whole grains will not fit through at the tightest setting. First run it through at .037 to crush grains then finish with a second pass at .025.

Installation is horribly difficult with super small hardware. Instructions with poor descriptions and bad pictures. Hardware not properly selected and in bad need of washers. Hopper is made of the flimsiest aluminum - appears to be unalloyed and unstrengthened grade and temper. Finally get this assembled and pour grain in. Large amount of grain immediately spills into the bucket since the hopper doesn’t seal gaps next to the roller. Begin to grind anyway to see how it works. The mill begins wobbling back and forth because the base is worthless. Hopper immediately breaks, probably because there is a tiny contact area holding the world’s weakest metal onto the grinding base. I just can’t believe how poorly engineered this is.

Works great. Super easy to use and grinds perfectly every time.

First off, this product probably deserves 4 stars, but I’m admittedly giving 3 stars in hopes that the manufacturer may privide me some guidance if my main complaint is user error. If my complaint is in fact a defect, then so be it.So, I’m glad I have my own grain mill now. And this one does work fairly well. I keep the width at .375 and has a BIAB brewer, my mash efficiency is now consistently around 82%. (Up from 72-75%)There are a couple issues that keep this from being 5 stars. Least important, the black rubber/plastic cover that fits around the hopper rim comes off VERY easily. Every time I move the mill, the rubber piece pops loose. Perhaps I could glue it, but that doesn’t feel like it should be necessary.Biggest complaint: there are large gaps at the bottom of the grain hopper, on either side of the rollers. So while filling the grain hopper, an annoyingly large quantity of grain falls into my bucket unmilled. Does this affect my overall mash numbers? No. Is it inefficient and wasteful? Yes! I’d like to think this is user assembly error, but I don’t really see how I might eliminate this gap based on how everything fits together.This would be less of an issue if the hopper held more than 7lbs of grain. Because once the grain settles, it plugs those gaps and prevents more grain from falling through. (As long as you don’t bump or jostle anything). However, most of my grain bills fall in the 9-12lbs range. So I typically have to mill the first bit of grain and then reload the hopper, resulting in further losses. For base grain this is likely a non issue. For losses of specialty grain this could conceivably affect the recipe.Overall I’m happy with my purchase. I just think everyone should be aware of these issues.