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Traditional Floor Maltings, where the smaller batch size is ideal for specialist malts
Barley is steeped in steeping tanks and spread over a solid floor, where the grains are allowed to germinate. Cool conditions are needed at this stage. Raking allows air to reach the germinating grains.
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members peer into steeping tanks where barley grains are soaked to start germination |
traditional malt barrow - a rare piece of kit |
malt grains just sprouting, after a few days |
Steve from the technical team demonstrates raking to aerate the germinating grains |
Once germinated the grains are scraped up and moved to the kiln where the perforated floor is heated from beneath.
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this device is dragged across the floor as a sort of dozer to scrape up the germinated grains |
traditional malt kilning floor |