Munich Malt

[mysterio]

I'm glad that nice malts are available and will try to pick something that has a good rep and get a sack of it in - and am much happier ordering a weyerman pilsener malt or munich than a UK lager malt or 'munich' as I love many of the pilseners and dunkels made in germany with weyerman malts but shudder at the UK 'lagers' made this way. However am quite aware that this may just be fetishising the foreign/exotic as better.

I get what you're saying, but there's nothing wrong with these UK malts. I won an award with a Vienna made with a combo of UK lager and munich. They are still a great base and it's what you do with them that counts. A lot of UK lagers are just pish quality because they are made as cheaply as possible, concentrated fermentations, hop extracts, adjuncts and little or no lagering time etc. I can think of some great UK lagers made with lager malt made by craft brewers.

That said, given the choice it is Weyermann all the way now. I even used the Brupaks repackaged stuff at ridiculous prices until the last price rise took it firmly over double the price of lager malt. There is definitely a difference, it is sweeter, lighter, grainier, more sulphur compounds etc. It is just all-round more authentic tasting.

[lancsSteve]

there's nothing wrong with these UK malts ... That said, given the choice it is Weyermann all the way now. I even used the Brupaks repackaged stuff at ridiculous prices

I share the sentiment - I don't think the UK ones are poor quality but if the german ones are available at reasonable prices (which Rob has brought - at last) then the originals hold a lot of appeal. I wouldn't pay double prices - did once splash out for VERY pricey rauch malt for a weizen but left making a recipe which required 100% rauch malt until thrifty came a long and halved it's price - once the price is reasonable he original should be tried IMHO.

Likewise with hops etc. high wuality now available at competitive prices so it sounds like monopoly practices have moved on to sundries like DME whihc is now harder and harder to get at anything like a reasonable price - think thrifty is the last place to be repackaging

[weiht]

The brewer at meantime said that the British Munich malt is closer to an amber malt than a German Munich due to it's toasty character n colour.