Malt

Oat malt

Malted rather than flaked oats, giving oat texture with some enzyme activity of its own.

Malted oats give the silky body oats are used for while contributing a little more flavour and some enzyme activity that flaked oats do not.

They are harder to malt than barley and correspondingly more expensive, which is why flaked oats remain the default.

What it does

Base malt. Fully modified, gently kilned malt with enough enzyme activity to convert itself and some adjunct. Forms the bulk of a grist.

Germinated and kilned like barley, which is difficult because oats have a high oil content.