So I have a bag of dried habs and was trying to figure out a way to make powder out of them w/o having to buy something to grind them up (am I cheap ?, YES). Anybody have ideas to grind them up. I do have a coffee grinder that I stopped using since I stopped drinking coffee. Its not the kind with a spinning blade, it crushes beans as they go through it. I thought about chopping them up then dumping them into my pepper grinder, does that sound like it will work o.k. ? On another note, I am now drinking my hab stout, which I made a few weeks ago. I only used 4 dried habs in the boil for about 90 min. It isn't hot at all, but it has a hint of chile in it. Not too bad. One thing that is strange to me is the color, normally with the ingredients I used it should have been much much darker. Does anybody know if there is something in chile's that would effect the color of beer ? It came out to be more of a dark amber/orange color. --Anton--