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Fermented malt rye


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Many East European rye breads are baked with fermented malt rye. It's malt rye that has been fermented and slowly dried at low temperatures, sold as flour or berries.

 

I haven't been able to find a US-based supplier; the only two ways of procuring it here seem to be importing from the EU (slow, expensive) or making at home from unfermented malt rye (very tedious). I'm about to start experimenting with the DIY version, but before I do - wanted to ask if anyone here by any chance came across a US maker/supplier of the stuff? (that for some reason or other does not have web presence, otherwise I guess I would have found it...)

 

Thank you!

 

P.S. In various English-speaking forums, crystal malt or chocolate malt are suggested as substitutes - they are not

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Malting and fermenting your own will take around 10 days or so I suspect from my previous malting experiments. Have you checked the brew stores?

 

 

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29 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

Malting and fermenting your own will take around 10 days or so I suspect from my previous malting experiments. Have you checked the brew stores?

 

 

Yep, I get other supplies from the brew stores -  white malts, malt extracts, but not this one.

 

Etsy is the most affordable source indeed, but still - the cheapest is $12/pound, if I take 5... about 10 times the price across the pond.

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First attempt at DIY fermented malt rye. 5 days of fermentation and slow drying at temperatures increasing from 140f to 190f, during which time the Maillard reaction transforms the grains from malt to something that looks charred, but smells caramel. Milled and scalded, it tastes like sour rye bread. Off to baking now!

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Some process documentation, from the second batch - the transformation is quite fascinating. The temperatures range from 140F in the fermentation stage to 170F in drying.

 

Raw malt rye
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Beginning of fermentation

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7 hours all liquid soaked up

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19 hours, already beginning to brown

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52 hours, getting darker

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72 hours, almost black

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94 hours. Charcoal black

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125+ hours: ready!

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