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While I have been brewing for a long time I have never invested in a grain mill or purchased grain in bulk. I think the time has come to make that investment and was wondering what you guys tend to use as a base malt. I think that the only grains that I would buy in bulk, at least in 50 pound bags, would be my base malts.
Any suggestions on which malts? I have been using a lot of Rahr 2-row recently and have been happy with it. My latest batch which will get kegged tonight was made with Rahr Pale malt.
I know this is kind of a personal preference but was just looking for some thoughts on this and appreciate any comments.
I try to use a base grain appropriate to the style of beer. For my farmhouse ales, I’m using regular two-row of any kind. For an English beer, I’d definitely try to get Maris Otter. For lagers & pilseners and if you just like pilsner malt, go with pilsner malt as your base, lots of people do.
Personally, I’m going organic and local these days, so I’m going to try out the organic Gambrinus Pale and the CO Malting two-row.
You can’t go wrong with the Rahr 2-row for American beers, as for other styles I am with Todd…Maris Otter for English, good continental pils for Belgians and Germans…I am partial to Weyermann pils. And then I usually have a sack of Weyermann white wheat also. And about 20 specialty grains…lol!
Considering the price difference depending on the total number of bags ordered by the group how will we know which price to pay per bag of malt? At some point, before the February meeting, do you need some sort of rough idea of how many bags everyone is planning on ordering? Or just bring a blank check to the next meeting (this is what I suspect your answer will be)? Sorry for making this complicated.
I seem to remember from the emails for last summers bulk buy that we were easily over 40 bags though.
Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 11:00 am |
While I have been brewing for a long time I have never invested in a grain mill or purchased grain in bulk. I think the time has come to make that investment and was wondering what you guys tend to use as a base malt. I think that the only grains that I would buy in bulk, at least in 50 pound bags, would be my base malts.
Any suggestions on which malts? I have been using a lot of Rahr 2-row recently and have been happy with it. My latest batch which will get kegged tonight was made with Rahr Pale malt.
I know this is kind of a personal preference but was just looking for some thoughts on this and appreciate any comments.
Patrick
Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 2:29 pm |
I try to use a base grain appropriate to the style of beer. For my farmhouse ales, I’m using regular two-row of any kind. For an English beer, I’d definitely try to get Maris Otter. For lagers & pilseners and if you just like pilsner malt, go with pilsner malt as your base, lots of people do.
Personally, I’m going organic and local these days, so I’m going to try out the organic Gambrinus Pale and the CO Malting two-row.
Todd
Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 2:49 pm |
You can’t go wrong with the Rahr 2-row for American beers, as for other styles I am with Todd…Maris Otter for English, good continental pils for Belgians and Germans…I am partial to Weyermann pils. And then I usually have a sack of Weyermann white wheat also. And about 20 specialty grains…lol!
Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 12:15 pm |
I haven’t finalized my desired order yet, but I will probably order 4-6 sacks -mostly Belgians.
Patrick
Friday, January 15th 2010 at 2:04 pm |
Todd,
Considering the price difference depending on the total number of bags ordered by the group how will we know which price to pay per bag of malt? At some point, before the February meeting, do you need some sort of rough idea of how many bags everyone is planning on ordering? Or just bring a blank check to the next meeting (this is what I suspect your answer will be)? Sorry for making this complicated.
I seem to remember from the emails for last summers bulk buy that we were easily over 40 bags though.
Patrick
Friday, January 15th 2010 at 4:24 pm |
I plan to email everybody with their totals the week of January 25, I figure by then we should know the totals.
As of now, we have 20 bags.
Todd