Good morning. My LHB store carries nothing but Admiral Maltings for base malts. Having never used them, I am wondering if there is any significant difference between them and the base malts I can get thru Morebeer or NB?
Just a guess, but based on extensive use of craft malt, my guess would be that there is a significant difference. Maybe someone will have direct experience to relate, but my advice would be to give it a try and decide for yourself.
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I would say you are very lucky! I love Admiral Maltings malts. I got them through MoreBeer for a while, then when MoreBeer dropped them I couldn’t find them for a couple of years. Now I am buying them again from Oak Barrel Winecraft in Berkeley. Admiral Maltings malts are a bit pricey compared to the giants, but in my opinion they are well worth it.
I have not used them but from the description they seem like a very good maltster that uses the floor malting process. As Denny stated try a batch like you would your other malt and see how it turns out. Also please report back would be interested to hear your experience
That is where I am going to go to get the grains. It is about an hour drive, but what the heck, i don’t mind a road trip. LOL
I’ve used quite a bit of their pils malt. Good stuff, alot of the grassy and hay notes typical of continental pils. I’ve also used their vieena style malt, I cant remember the name). It was very good, much maltier and fuller flavored than any other vienna maly I’ve used.
I like their malt and buy it direct from their facility in Alameda, but it can be hard to get a good crush, especially the “Feldblume.” A trend that I dislike about craft malt is how they give their malts a special name rather than using terms like “pale malt,” “Munich malt,” etc. AFAIK, Admiral has several pale malts: Feldblume, Maidan Voyage, and Gallagher’s Best are all basically pale malts. Then their Midway and Pacific Victor are both basically Munich malts (II and I respectively). It takes a good bit of trial and error to figure out how their malts will perform. I think their pils is excellent and performs similarly to Belgian pilsner malt and sometimes has a little gooseberry.white grape quality not unlike Castle/Chateau pils. It also works great at triggering thiol activation with a thiolized yeast and no added thiol precursors like mash hops or phantasm.