The video shows how I malt wheat at home. I hope it can help people to exchange experiences about malting wheat at home. I'll be happy to answer any questions about the process.
Thanks for the tutorial. I just malted 2kg of wheat for making a very small batch of beer. I can't leave it in the oven for 30h though... I will probably do it "faster" in a few hours at higher temperature.
If you tie the wheat in thin cloth instead of keeping them in a tray and sprinkle water for 3 days. keep the wheat in a dark place and they sprout in 8 hrs.
it does not hurt the seed at all to be frozen because it is below 12 % moisture. I am a wheat farmer from Canada and farm thousands of acres and grow millions of pounds of wheat and it all freezes during the Harsh Canadian prairie winters and grows fine in the the spring
Freezing wheat will not kill 1:25. It is currently -30C (-22F) here in Saskatchewan and there are ton of wheat in unheated grain bins that will be used as seed this spring.
Cara, eu assisti esse vídeo logo que saiu. Sempre me deu vontade de fazer o mesmo. Pois bem, ano passado fiquei sabendo que os vizinhos dos meus pais em Erechim - RS estavam plantando cevada. Pedi pro meu velho dar uma olhada se conseguia comprar uns 5 kg para eu fazer umas experiencias em casa. No fim ganhamos uns 50 kg de cevada. Ontem recebi uns 10 kg aqui em Floripa. Vou me programar para semana que vem iniciar meus testes de malteação caseira e certamente esse vídeo vai voltar para as minhas referências. Valeu Kurt!
Thank you much for sharing this! I feel confident enough I will begin the process tomorrow to prepare a batch for wheat beer.I miss Europe! I had the best wheat beers there!THANKS AGAIN! Thumbs Up!
Thank you man, it means a lot. I really think you should try this a few times. The malt produced at home is really different from the bought one and it is worthy for flavor purposes, not efficiency.
Nice and informative video, my friend, I am a homebrew enthusiast, even though I never desired to make my own malt, like you mentioned in your video, it is not usually worth the trouble. Your video clip is eye opening, to show us the small scale process, I particularly like your explanations along the whole malting process. Thank you!
Thank you for the real-person attitude and method! I've got a bag of winter wheat and will try to make the malt for my next batch of beer now - water fresh from a stream and home grown hops ( been waiting in the freezer), too. Happy anticipation.
Hahaha. I just love the way you have the dishes sitting in the sink - focus on the important stuff :). Don't waste time doing the dishes just because a video is to be made hehe. Cool video - and your english is just fine btw :D
Excellent! Looking to make some for an addition to home baked bread. As a flour and/or as a whole, soaked grain. I have some Tasmanian wheat grain that needs another use.
I have worked wheat harvest several times in my life. That what had a lot of debris in it. Some harvester did not know how to set his sieves, blower, and concave.
You could keep the grains in the glass bottle after you soak them. Just rinse them with water and drain it out once or twice a day. That keeps the mold away, too, and is less work. People who sprout seeds like mung beans to eat do it that way. It works fine.
can this be used for converting other grain starches to sugar from mashing for beer or distilling?if so how much is used per pound of grain for conversion?
This is my favorite video about this right now. at about 9:34 or 9:35, when you say "shi*" when you drop the seed, I had to back up the video to hear it again. haha. thank you for posting this. like my comment if you are watching this in 2018. haha. I am doing research on brewing my very first batch of beer at home. :) I think I am going to start out with just buying a malt extract. But this is incredibly awesome to watch anyway. It is better than ASMR videos for me.
why isnt it efficient enough to be made into a base malt? Im currently germinating a batch of wheat malt, i was wondering if i could make beer just out of wheat? or do i need some barley?
Himanshu Dudi, I never tried it but the finishing process must be different. I'm not sure if one skip the kilning process in order to smoke the malt or kiln anyway and then smoke the malt.
Hey there, what sort of diastatic power does this malted wheat have? would the method work in, say, a corn beer (for making whiskey) with 20% malted wheat and 80% unmalted maize?
Before or after drying the malt in the oven you could treat the malt with a small sulphur fire.. The sulphurfumes will kill all bacteria. All the big malteries do that even when they deny it, because this process step is not mentioned in their operation permit for obvious reasons....
Hi, i just watched your vid, but i wish you would follow with what follows after. What do you use the dried sprouted wheat berries for, and how? Forgive my ignorance im not sure what malt is or what its used for .
Hi Mate! Couple questions.. - Have you skipped the malt washing between sprouting and drying? Wouldn't this add more moisture to the malt? - Do you have any good 100% wheat beer recipes that we could experiment? Thanks for this video, it really kicked our project forward. Skål! - Sebastian / Finland
I see you never got an answer. I had the same question. I think he avoided it. However, he was clear about washing repeatedly. Organisms grow within the matrix so a good washing would help and would also remove many sprouts. I think we want washed malt with few sprouts at every point up until drying and or toasting. The drying toasting temp for a good Munich or Crystal low lavibond would do little to remove the micro organisms grown during the later stages of the malt.
I noticed little white growths appearing all over my seeds during the hydration process (when were putting the wheat in and out of water for hours). Is that normal?
Hi this video was really nice. I dont know how the wheat in my country will be. anyway after malting it your way the first 1kg grew fine. the second time i did it with a 5kg batch and it dint work the same way. And just so that i have more clarity we need to soak for 12 hours and then change the water then soak again for 12 hours Right?
+Kostas Plevrakis Hey, I'm sorry for taking so long to answer. After finishing the malting process, you need to allow the grains mellow to reduce the harshness of the flavor. Right when you finish it, the grains taste like vegetables, I mean cooked vegetables. Allow them to rest a little bit.
Well, this is actually made to brew beer. It can be used in many different ways, specially before it is roasted. When the grains are soft and the sprouts are still green it can also be used as food.
Nabil Attar Sorry man, I really don't know what it takes to make malt syrup. I suggest you beggin with a well known malt instead of using home made malt to allow you to repeat the results you achieved in the first try. Home made malt can have unexpected results sometimes.
