mrbugawkagawk
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What is the difference between red and whole malted wheat?
Red wheat and whole wheat
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The word "malted", red wheat is not malted and getting any sugars out of it requires diastatic power from highly modified malts and/or a protein rest at near 122 deg F. The malted wheat has been malted like barley or rye and will give you good extraction of its natural sugars.
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mrbugawkagawk
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well that just makes sense
there are 2 basic styles of wheat available, spring and winter, and within them are two basic varieties, red and white. each can be be found malted and unmalted and flaked for the most common. the key is to find out how the wheat berries have been processed and proceed accordingly. typically if the wheat hasn't been modified in any way, it will be described as "raw", which you would want to do something like pompeii states to be able to get sugars out of it. there's all kinds of interesting articles out in the great www to research differences, profiles and techniques to proceed with each style.
