What is meant by "flavour malt grains"?

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Finlandbrews

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I read "flavour malt grains should be sucked and not chewed" in order to check the malt's quality. Which malts are we talking about and what do you think of this statement?
 
Probably specialty malts (i.e. anything that's not a base malt).
 
Probably specialty malts (i.e. anything that's not a base malt).

Indeed that must be it. It is in my opinion a strange way to name base malts "non flavour malt grains". This comes from the Institute of brewing and distilling in UK.

What is of interest to me is actually to know the quality of malt for specialty grains is better assessed by sucking the grains instead of chewing them. Is that correct?
 
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