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Applications & Description
Admiral Maltings prides itself on its floor malted specials. These batches are often malted from a single 8 ton batch of grain, which means the proverbial, "while supplies last."
We are currently offering these unique and flavorful malted grains.
Pricing and Certificate of Analysis (COA) for all these batches are available upon request.
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Malted Atlas Barley:
Atlas is a six row barley with a historic connection to California. Some 500 years ago, the Spanish brought to CA a Mediterranean landrace barley believed to have originated in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco. This barley thrived and adapted in California’s Mediterranean like environment and became a local landrace barley. Around 1900 UC Davis selected 200 of the most promising lines from this landrace to develop its first malting barley variety, Atlas. UC Davis created several lines of Atlas until about 1950. This Atlas was grown by multigenerational farmer Ben Work in Paso Robles. This grain has been used to brew the finest pre-prohibition style pilsners and whiskeys.
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Buck Naked:
Buck is floor malted from a winter naked barley variety well-suited for fall planting in the Sacramento Valley. For the same price as our other foundation malts, Buck provides approximately 10% more extract per pound used, and a distinctive, less tannic, flavorful profile. This unique barley sheds most of its husk during combine harvesting, with the remainder removed in the cleaning process post-kiln. The result is a malt with higher extract by volume and weight, offering a reduced carbon footprint for transportation and brewing. It is ideal for regular mash applications of up to 45% or more, akin to malted wheat, and an excellent choice for distillers whose single malt whiskey process demands low to no husks.
This malt is available in our Gallagher's Best pale ale style. It is a richly aromatic malt with notes of graham cracker and toffee, complemented by nuances of bread crust and breakfast cereal. The flavor profile includes toasted nuts with a hint of dry straw.
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Malted Hourani Wheat:
Hourani wheat is an ancient heirloom grain. These seeds were first unearthed deep from within the Masada Fortress during an archeological dig in the 1960s. The Hourani seeds had been stored there in earthen jars for over 2,000 years. Masada, originally constructed in the Judaean Desert between 37-31 BCE by Herod the Great, was overrun by Sicarii rebels in 66 AD, only to fall back into the hands of the Romans in 73 CE after a lengthy siege. Naturally drought tolerant and able to adapt to warming temperatures, Hourani is sparsely grown in various parts of the Mideast. Now, some 2,000 years later, one can argue, that Hourani and other ancient grains face a new kind of siege from industrialized farming practices designed for industrial grains. This Hourani wheat was grown organically by Full Belly Farm for Honoré Farm and Mill. It makes a spectacular wheat beer and, as a durum wheat, it is so hard that it has been successfully mashed and fermented at 100% inclusion.
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***RETURNING SOON!!***
Malted Western Rivers Conservancy, OR Grown, Thunder Barley:
- WRC Admiral Pils
- WRC Gallaghers Best
- WRC Felblume
Western Rivers Conservancy grown, no-till, dry farmed, Salmon Safe, floor malted, Thunder barley is of the highest quality at 9.2% protein. This barley, first bred by Pat Hayes at Oregon State University, is grown on a portion of 11,1154 acres of land which the WRC purchased and conveyed to the Bureau of Land Management in 2019. Perhaps you've already hiked or fished there, but this land includes the historic Rattray and Campbell Ranches along 10 miles of the John Day River and 4 miles of Thirtymile creek. The John Day River is home to the most robust population of Steelhead salmon in Oregon, a good reason for it to be Salmon Safe. The land is an arid, shrub steppe in North Central Oregon, near Condon, which is why the barley makes such flavorful malt. This is available in Admiral Pils, Feldblume and Gallagher's Best styles - floor malted with Thunder barley.
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