ahpsp
Well-Known Member
I asked this earlier on the Ingredients forum, but got no responses. The short question: does one pound of rye malt have enough/any diastatic power for one pound of flaked rye?
I'm brewing an extract saison with rye tonight. At the LHBS yesterday they only had one pound of rye malt, which I picked up, but they also had a pound of flaked rye that I got. I did not get any base grains. It seems from my subsequent reading that flaked rye needs to be mashed. Does the pound of rye malt I bought have sufficient diastatic power to convert the starches in all (or some) of the flaked rye I have?
I'm brewing an extract saison with rye tonight. At the LHBS yesterday they only had one pound of rye malt, which I picked up, but they also had a pound of flaked rye that I got. I did not get any base grains. It seems from my subsequent reading that flaked rye needs to be mashed. Does the pound of rye malt I bought have sufficient diastatic power to convert the starches in all (or some) of the flaked rye I have?