British DiaMalt  - Offering Choice & Quality in Malt Extracts and Cereal Extracts 

Malt products, (food ingredients derived from malted barley) are used in a wide variety of food and beverage applications. There are a wide selection of malt products available. Firstly there are malt flours, flakes & kibbled malt. More information on these products is available just below this article. British DiaMalt specialises in another malt product, malt extract. Malt extract is used in as a food ingredient to enhance and enrich variety of foods from biscuits, cakes and bread to ice cream and chilled meals.

Malt extract (and cereal syrups) is available in many different formats and British DiaMalt has the capability of offer all types. Here are 10 questions to assist you.

1. Do you require Liquid or Dried?
Malt extract can be supplied in liquid, spray-dried or band dried form. Which format you use is down to the product you produce and your storage requirements.

2. Does your application require Diastatic or Non-Diastatic?
You can have diastatic malt extract (enzyme active) if your application requires it or non-diastatic which is more typically used.

3. What Colours, Aromas and Flavours are you looking for?
Malt Extract can be produced so it can have vcolours, aromas and flavours to meet your requirements. Do you have a specification you require? 

4. Do you have a preference for the type of cereal (grain) used?
There is a choice of cereal from which the extract is derived. Malt extract is a made from malted barley. You can also have extracts from other cereals including unmalted barley, oat and wheat. British DiaMalt offers barley syrup, oat syrup and wheat syrup in both liquid and dried formats.

5. Do you require Organic?
We offer organic malt extract. We have a extensive range of organic products including spray-dried organic malt extract, liquid diastatic organic malt extract and standard non-diastatic organic malt extract.

6. Do you require Hopped or Unhopped?
Typically we supply the product unhopped but if your product is for brewing and you wish for a hopped product, we can offer it.

7. Are you a Domestic User?
If you are looking for a small amount malt extract (below 15kg), you can go to your local home brew shop or go online to one of the many online home brew retailers. Typically the domestic user would require 'Light' or 'Diastatic' if they are making a product such as malt loaf. Our unhopped malt extract label 'Bulldog Blends' is available throughout the UK. It has Light, Amber, Dark Amber and Dark Malt Extracts as well as Diastatic Malt Extract and Wheat Syrup in the range. It comes in 1.6kg cans or 15kg or 25kg kegs.

8. Is the application on an Industrial Scale?
If you are looking for a larger amount of product please contact our sales team, who will be able to go through your requirement. E-mail: maltextracts@diamalt.co.uk

9. Are you confused by Product Terms?
If you are a new buyer in the field, it can very confusing because of the variety of terms used by manufacturers, distributors and customers to describe the same products. If you are looking for malted barley extract, barley malt syrup, liquid barley malt, barley malt extract, liquid malt, barley extract, liquid malt extract, malt syrup, malt extract syrup, malt powder, malt extract powder. You may be looking for an extract made totally from malted barley or a proportion of malted barley and unmalted barley. British DiaMalt offers an extensive range of these products in liquid and dried form.

10. What type of Packaging do you require? 
Liquid malt extract can be packed 15kg plastic containers to 1400kg IBCs or delivered in 26mt tanker loads. Dried malt extract is packed in 25kg bags.

For more information on the products mentioned above and their applications visit our Malt Extract & Cereal Syrups section.

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