How Beer and Whiskey Malt is Made - Riverbend Malt House Tour

This is a "how it's made" that explains the process of creating finely crafted malt (barley corn, rye, and wheat, and so on) for commercial craft brewers, distilleries, and even home brewers.

After growing and harvesting and cleaning by the farmers is complete, it gets shipped to a "maltster" where the grain is first heated and moistened. This causes it to start germinating and sprout (which creates enzymes that brewers need to produce sugar from starch later in the brewing process). Germination is stopped by introduction of heat and reduction of moisture, which preserves the enzymes. The grain is then cleaned, toasted, bagged, sent to brewers and distillers who use it to make delicious whiskies, beers, and more.

Malt houses like Riverbend take this process to an insanely detailed level of precision, which creates unique properties and flavor profiles in the beer and whiskies made with their malt. If you've ever wanted to know why Scotch and Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey taste so good, learning about how malt is made is a good place to start. In fact every type of beer and spirits utilize malt for their production. Cocktails benefit from this process as well, because the alcohol used to make cocktails is also made with the help of malt!

Beer and whiskey malt production tutorial: https://www.clawhammersupply.com/blog...
Riverbend Malt House: https://riverbendmalt.com/
More details on malt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt

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