Wellsy wrote:So it really depends on what you are fermenting and why you are adding the grain mate.
Malted and Unmalted of the same variety will have different flavours.
If you are adding grains to a sugar wash then it is purely for flavouring that the grain is added as you rely on the sugar for alcohol production.
If you are mashing in ( essentially cooking ) the grain to release the natural sugars to produce the alcohol then unmalted has an advantage in that it releases its sugars more easily. It’s a lot more scientific than that but I wanted to give you the simple answer as that is all I know lol
Once you know why the grains are being added the answer will become more apparent
Thanks for the replies , I am trying a few different bourbon grain blends just mainly using Flaked corn and then using the other grains to convert to sugar , from what i have read and tried it seems to be working so far . my main concern was i did not know if both the barley and the rye had to be malted or if only one of them could be malted and still convert enough of the sugars
if only one of them is malted do you need to add like alpha amylase or anything just as an example with both barley and rye being the same amount
thanks