Sahti malt
Sahti malt (Special Blend Sahti(TM)) is a ready made
mix of three ordinary
malt varieties
from
Lahden Polttimo Oy (the biggest maltster in Finland). It
contains 85% of pilsner malt (2-row), 10% of pale caramel malt
and 5% of enzyme malt (2-row).
This is a rather traditional base for a sahti (of course
originally every sahti brewer made his own malts), many brewers
add some rye malt for colour and flavour. The enzyme malt is
there (I think) because of the old fashioned equipment many
brewers use. Otherwise they maybe couldn't achieve a proper
saccharification.
From one bag of sahti malt (20 kg, 44 lb) you get just
right amount of sahti 35-60 liters (9.2-15.8 gallons).
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