Wheat Malt & SMM

[jhay_x7]

Planning to do a 100% wheat beer this weekend and it got me thinking about SMM content of wheat malt and how long I need to boil to drive off DMS production. Does anyone know if wheat malt contains more or less SMM than barley?

 

[Pie_Man]

I don't know the SMM content of wheat malt, but in general, the lighter the SRM, the higher its SMM content.

 

[lolcats]

Very old but does anyone have an answer?

 

[ajdelange]

The maltster tunes the malt for the level he wants. If he wants high levels he'll malt a variety of barley that contains a lot of it, use or avoid certain chemicals and kiln lightly. I think you'd have to look at the malt spec sheets to be sure.