The Brewing Research Foundation Micromalting Equipment

A versatile, semi-automatic micromalting plant has been constructed, suitable for malting 1–2 kg barley samples. There are two units, each containing four vessels, allowing up to eight samples to be processed at a time. Each unit can be operated independently, so that different steeping schedules and germination temperatures can be used within an experiment. A steeping schedule involving one air rest can be performed fully automatically. For a more complicated schedule it is necessary to alter the settings during the steeping process.