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Montana Craft Malt shipped the first of many truck

Montana Craft Malt shipped the first of many truckloads of Two Row Plus to our friends and partners @redlodgeales.
Utilizing local product to make great beer! That's the way we like it!🍻

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Happy 21st Birthday to Stephan, one of our lead op

Happy 21st Birthday to Stephan, one of our lead operators at Montana Craft Malt. He's hard at work and plays a key role in the production of our craft malt. Without his sense of humor and great attitude, we would be a lot different as a team.

Stephan's proud to say he can finally enjoy the beer he's been helping produce malt for at Montana Craft Malt.

Cheers to 21 Stephan! And cheers to Elk burgers and craft beers after work!!

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Days 9&10: Shipping Day!!! Here it is, the moment

Days 9&10: Shipping Day!!!
Here it is, the moment we've all been waiting for! The day the malt leaves our facility and goes to the brewers and distillers to make yummy beverages!
Our customers order by pallet or by trailer for bulk loads to fill their silos, that then delivers in one to two days.

Pictured are close ups of what our craft malt looks like compared to one another. Depending on what the brew master or master distiller is making, such as: a pilsner, IPA, pale, single malt whiskey, scotch, bourbon, rye whiskey (just about anything that needs enzymes) they'll choose the best variety of malt for the job.

You can really see the difference in color with our Two Row Plus (Picture 8) and its beautiful gold color throughout, then check out the colors in Garnet (Picture 9) with all the reds, oranges, and even has it's own texture. They taste both very enjoyable and are quite different.

And to that, we say thank you for joining us in 10 Days of Malting! Time to get our butts to a brewery and distillery to taste what they got cooking for us.

Happy New Year everyone! Have a safe and very fun coming into the year 2023!!! Cheers!

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Day 8: Cleaning and Packaging Here comes the reall

Day 8: Cleaning and Packaging
Here comes the really fun part! The finished malt is moved to the bagging warehouse where the cleaner sifts off any extra husk or chaff and separates foreign materials from the malted grain. This process usually takes around 1-2 hours.

Then, product will be put into 55 lbs. bags from our bagging line and placed on pallets awaiting shipment.

The warehouse will bag anywhere from 800 to 3,000 bags a week. Shall I mention that each bag is hand-stickered custom to the malt being packaged? That means our guys work at lightning speed, flipping and putting stickers on every bag before its filled with malt. WOW.

See you tomorrow for the last day of 10 Days of Malting. Thanks for staying tuned folks!

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Day 7: Kiln Offload Finished malt is pushed down w

Day 7: Kiln Offload
Finished malt is pushed down with the auger passing through the malt deculmers (Picture 4) where the roasted rootlets and long acrospires are partly cleaned off. The malt then travels through the aspirator and into our storage bins.
(Video shows to process of how the malt moves through the conveyor line)

A sample is taken from each and every malted batch that is sent to the Malt Quality Labs at MSU. From there, we receive our Certificate of Analysis results that show how well the malt came to spec.

Tune in over the next few days to wrap up our 10 days of malting!

Thank you @msu.barley.malt.brew.lab for you dedication and continued hard work in providing us with our malt test results. You guys rock!

Shout to @cameraguy92 for getting this awesome footage after our -40 degree morning. Thanks for being a trooper!

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Happy Holidays from the Montana Craft Malt crew!!

Happy Holidays from the Montana Craft Malt crew!! We hope you all had a safe and warm Christmas gathered with friends and family.

Shout out to @buttebrewing for serving up some amazing pizza and great beer. Thank you guys!

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