Beer and Whiskey Malt - How It's 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: www.clawhammersupply.com/blogs/moonshine-still-blog/the-malting-process-visiting-riverbend-malt-house
Riverbend Malt House: riverbendmalt.com/
More details on malt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt
#malt #craftbeer

[@fuhmeable]

Every time Emmet blinks an angel takes a drink.

[@davidbeaudin]

As a home brewer, this visual knowledge is gold! Thanks to Riverbend for being so open about the subject and explaining it to us all in simple terms.

[@donmilleriii7399]

This was cool! I liked the examinations of the industry videos. Y'all did one recently on brewery pricing that was super illustrative, good stuff. This is older but the mix of fun and informative is great.

[@christophermgwadira4400]

Great work to the guy who collect a sample every 10 minutes through out the production

[@rickfoss1136]

Super cool. I had no idea that they germinated it in the process then dried it back down. From MN I just picked up a bag from the Maltwerks facility in Detroit lakes yesterday and they gave me a tour of the malt house also. Awesome stuff!

[@WhipsawWillys]

Awe yeah! You know it's going to be a good day when a new claw hammer video hits the internet.

[@jaapznl]

You should do more video's like this! Very interesting, and well edited. Great funny to interesting ratio

[@deannoman]

Absolutely love their room for chitting! Pretty unique!

[@Chris_Mc.]

Fantastic video! Emit knocked it out of the park. I want some of their grains.

[@OysterBoysBrewingCo]

Great video, so good to hear the guys we’re on board with sustainability.

[@FrankStasaIV]

Wow. This was a great watch!!!

[@TotallyAestheticGames]

Great video! Love the documentary style.

[@robertscott9829]

Great video guys!

[@mattashley3076]

you guys are really swinging for the fences these days. loving it!

[@jacobsecret1425]

After watching this a tour of New Belgium with Ross please. Awesome video. Keep up the good work.

[@michaelnichols1977]

This was great! May we have Emmet doing more remotes like this?

[@Casperr123]

Great video, you guys should do more of these visits to brewaries and other related places such as the malt house you've just done.

[@MrWimbli]

Very interesting and I love the edit ! Thanks guys !

[@thomasmahoney4431]

Very cool video, I had no idea that much went into the malting process.

[@Bryanwalsh444]

Great job on the video guys, keep it up!

[@Unionsnare]

Sick!! Sweet video guys

[@AndrewLynch9]

That was incredible!

[@codenameDOC]

What a video, more remotes like these please!

[@eduardovicentini8178]

Cool. Congratulations from Brazil.

[@lapoupadotcom]

Great video!

[@A2an]

Thanks for the information, I have always wondered how to get from korn to malt, Thanks 👍👍

[@jtlon1]

so cool. well done. good luck to all.

[@Beerjunkieguy]

Very good video. Educational and I would love to see more like this. I may contact them to see if they'll quote me for a few sacks.

[@Jakub_Senkerik]

great content, thanks as always

[@mustyditch4703]

Totally coooooool!!! Thanks.

[@derrickrichardson3845]

Phenomenal content! Wonder if I can find Riverbend here in Atlanta. Definitely an inspiration to support local as much as possible.

[@tucker4685]

more of this type of vid please

[@Matt-ii2th]

10/10

[@wandersonluz1306]

Brann Bronzebeard, is you? 😊😊...nice video, beaultiful place.!🍺🍺

[@Chris-Costa-Rica]

loved the vid! Any idea if these guys export internationally?

[@RanjeetJadhavBattlefield]

Please can you make a detail video on crystal malt making process?

[@bmatth06]

Ah, yes. All I have ever wanted to know. I'm complete.

[@riverbendmalthouse274]

Thanks for your interest everyone! Interested homebrewers can find find our malts at Asheville Brewers Supply (www.ashevillebrewers.com) Cheers!

[@ryandunlap6893]

emit is the pinnacle of fashion. Mr. GQ 2020

[@brewsandbass5572]

Are HBS selling these. I'd like to try the Streaker oats and some others.

[@grahamhawes7089]

Wow, really cool tour. Thanks for making this! So is the pneumatic unit handling both germination and roasting in the same vessel?

[@shegwin]

Graham Hawes yes it is!!

[@Mark-uq9km]

Keep going. Don't stop at the beer do some distilling and making some fine whisky.

[@codebowl]

Very nice video, I just wish I could order smaller amounts directly from them since there are no shops in my area that carry this brand. I will keep my eye out for it and try it out one day.

[@B33Ra8it]

Annapolis Home Brew Supply carries and ships in the US.

[@diannadavis1362]

Just wondering if a couple of crushed campden tablets in the initial soak would kill any mold spores on the surface of the kernels ? Has anyone tried this ?

[@ahubrig83]

Where can homebrewers buy their malt?

[@hecker1982]

If Sierra Nevada and Oskar Blues is using them, I’d be interested in buying some

[@ThaHammieJaassee]

Sierra Nevada is nasty beer haha I'm from tahoe/carson city and for a local brew im not impressed

[@solosailorsv8065]

Good businessmen; research what the community and industry NEEDS and fill that need while exceeding expectations with automation and advanced process monitoring

[@reportajesperuanos]

How to contact you to request mal for beer?

[@RoraighPrice]

this guy looks like Matthew Lillard's uncle or something.

[@thesaint8400]

Fucking punch me Emmet

[@TheTheTheMikeyB21]

Of course the vegan had to say they were vegan lol

[@SeaJayBelfast]

I'd like to meet Emitt for a couple Mai Tais. Maybe a bit of beard touching too. See where the night goes

[@eastindiaV]

I just take the water I'm gonna ferment with, put the grains in for about 24 hours until the tap root shows, then ferment the water, sans the grain. Dry grain may as well be sugar, and if you dry it you're getting rid of all the essential oils that give it flavor. There are beneficial microbes that make the flavor from the grain, by drying and killing the bacteria, you lose the flavor. Germaphopbes have no place in this industry, you just ferment the water from the germinated grains, with the BENEFICIAL MICROBES (REPEAT THAT IN YOUR HEAD 10X).