drying/toasting malt

[Dnderhead]

hear is a chart that mite help those that are making there own malt.
Table 17 - Grain Toasting Times and TemperaturesTemperature
Dry/Wet
Time
Flavor

275 °F
Dry
1 hour
Light nutty taste and aroma.

350 °F
Dry
15 minutes
Light nutty taste and aroma.

350 °F
Dry
30 minutes
Toasty, Grape-Nuts Flavor.

350 °F
Dry
1 hour
More roasted flavor, very similar to commercial Brown Malt.

350 °F
Wet
1 hour
Light sweet Toasty flavor.

350 °F
Wet
1.5 hours
Toasted Malty, slightly sweet.

350 °F
Wet
2 hours
Strong Toast/Roast flavor similar to Brown Malt.



The malt should be stored in a paper bag for 2 weeks prior to use. This will allow time for the harsher aromatics to escape. Commercial toasted malts are often aged for 6 weeks before sale. This aging is more important for the highly toasted malts, toasted for more than a half hour (dry) or 1 hour (wet).

[atticpc]

Hi Dunder

If you have malted your own barley and then dried it is the hour at 275 °F low enough to leave any enzyme activity intact?

[Dnderhead]

as fare as base malts go I "air dry" , I have a dryer that is built much like a smoke house with ventilation from bottom to top
and is "forced" threw malt sort of a "chimney" effect. next step mite be solar heater? maybe forced air?.
next mite be a "tumbler" to remove roots, and a "winnower" to remove chaff. If I'm crafty enough I thank I can combine the two.

[violentblue]

as fare as base malts go I "air dry" , I have a dryer that is built much like a smoke house with ventilation from bottom to top
and is "forced" threw malt sort of a "chimney" effect. next step mite be solar heater? maybe forced air?.
next mite be a "tumbler" to remove roots, and a "winnower" to remove chaff. If I'm crafty enough I thank I can combine the two.

been talking about building a centrifuge out of a washing machine, maybe a malt dryer out of a dryer would be an appropriate pairing. Just need to gear down the tumbler to spin about 1/10 the speed or possibly a little slower, and add some finer mesh to the inside of the tumbler.. would eliminate the roots as well I'd think. one could even add a smoker to feed the air inlet for a little peat smoked malt.

[Dnderhead]

" maybe a malt dryer out of a dryer "
just put grain in a pillow case.


No dryer sheet please!