I have now eaten too much raw pilsner malt.
I tasted 19 different malts blind, ranking each one best (3), good (2), or meh (1). I recorded the score for each malt, and then repeated the tasting for a total of 3 times. Scores were:
9: Epiphany (0.5)
8: Avangard (1.3)
7: Prostejov, Weyermann Eraclea (3.4)
6: BestMalz, Briess, Dingemans, Franco-Belges, Leopold Bros, Weyermann Barke, Weyermann floor-malted (4.2)
5: Admiral, Rahr, Sugar Creek, Viking (5)
4: Great Western, Mecca Grade (2.9)
3: MaltWerks, Rahr North Star (1.6)
The number in parentheses is the number of malts you'd expect at that score if selection was completely random. (These numbers are adjusted by the fact that I turned out to be more likely to rate something as "meh" than as "best.")
In other words, I have not disproved the statement, "I can not tell the difference between maltsters just by tasting raw malt."
I'm set up to make 6 batches of SMaSH lager. Have to figure out how to select the competitors; I'm thinking that if someone's mentioned it in this thread I'll include it.