Grain crushing cost benefit?

[bcmaui]

Having a mill at home is a definite cost savings as well as a freshness thing for me.

I am able to purchase grain locally from my craftbrewery and no longer have to pay airfreight charges to bring in ingredients.

I built a second grain mill as well and donated my first motorized mill to our brewclub so others can use that one (or swing by my house) to mill grain as well.

[linuxelf]

No, what we mean is, buying 55lbs of grain at a time will cut your grain cost. So, if you buy 55 lbs of cracked grain, it's not that it's sitting around the store cracked a long time before you get it, it's that it'll sit in your house a long time cracked before you use it. That is, of course, assuming you don't go through 55lbs of grain in a couple of weeks.

Once cracked, the grain should be used in a couple of weeks. Uncracked it will store for months (without humidity control).

Yah yah I agree, but who is crushing the grain and letting it sit around before shipping it?

I had an unhappy experience with a hop dealer who sold me last fall's stale hops bagged badly.
But the vendor ( midwest) I normally use does all the crushing for each order. Or more accurately said they crush and ship the orders as they pile up. So they may crush a few sacks of one grain and ship them right off to the various purchasers of small lots.

[Cliff]

No, what we mean is, buying 55lbs of grain at a time will cut your grain cost. So, if you buy 55 lbs of cracked grain,

Ahh yes that would tend to let all the goodness out, sitting around like that.