Glossary
Kilning
Drying germinated grain with heat to halt modification and develop colour and flavour, gently for base malt and much harder for speciality malts.
The full record
Kilning has its own catalogue entry with the detail this page summarises — causes, thresholds, related styles and evidence.
Kilning — Dry germinated grain with heat to halt modification, stabilise it for storage and develop the colour and flavour that distinguish one malt from another.
Related
- Malting — The process it concludes.
- Maillard reaction — The chemistry behind kilned malt flavour.
- Base malt — The gently-kilned product.
More vocabulary
Arrested fermentation · Barrel ageing · Batch sparging · Biotransformation · Blending · Bottle conditioning · Bottom fermentation · Burtonisation · Cask conditioning · Centrifugation
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Last reviewed 2026-08-16.