Malts Aint Malts

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Evo
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Post by Evo »

Was recently talking to the dude at my HBS and he mentioned that he gets his malt from Nestle. I was a bit shocked by this because I had read somewhere that confectionary malt was inferior in some way.

Actually just found a link to that here (bottom of article)

http://www.brewcraft.com.au/wawcs019615 ... -kits.html

Anyone got any thoughts on this ?
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Post by Guest »

Evo, i asume that Nestle like coopers suply the food industry with malt so there fore i would asume that nestle provide at least part of the brewing industry with specific malts akin to making beer.
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Post by Dogger Dan »

I am sure they do malt, but malt what may be the question. I mean you get malted barley, malted wheat etc. It may be the purity level to or if it is blended. (If I ask for wheat malt extract at the HBS, it is 60 percent pale malt extract and 40 percent wheat malt


Oh Evo, I have a word for you that you will like. It is called Barm.

As a verb it means to pitch your yeast or pitch actually (so I guess some of us barm our fermentors :wink: ), as an adjective it means foam, either the Karausen (sp?) or the head on the beer in the glass. Nice word that, thought you might like it.


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Barm. Nice. Locking it in. Cheers Dogger !
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Post by Damo »

Just bought a kilo of LME from my HBS and it is from coopers i paid $4.50 for it. What do you pay?
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Yeah, a fair bit more than that. About $7-8 I think. Where is your HBS Damo ?
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Post by Guest »

It is in Wonoona near Wollongong in NSW. It is called Northern Brew
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Post by Robinelle »

I am taking a guess here....Nestle would probably be one of the worlds biggest producers of malt???
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Post by Dogger Dan »

Doubt it,

My money is on Cargill.

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Post by Oliver »

While I guess confectionary malts aren't necessarily bad, some of them apparently are made with high-nitrogen barley, which isn't good.

And as for Cooper's, I'm not sure whether they differentiate between confectionary malt and brewing malt, so perhaps they make all their malt with the same grains (i.e. to brewing standards)?

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