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Swaen©
Simply perfect – Kilned malts
This is our diverse range of quality kilned malts, made from the best European 2-row spring barley. They can be used as the main ingredient for all types of beers, like Pilsner, Lager and Ale, but also IPA, Blonde, Tripel, and even Porter and Stout. These products may have different aromas and colours, they do have one thing in common – Swaen malts are the foundation of any beer you want to brew.
Swaen© Lager
Our lightest malt is gently kilned to preserve its delicate character. Swaen© Lager malt is easy to work with and can be mashed using a simple single-temperature infusion, making it a reliable choice for brewers. It offers a clean, light, and slightly sweet malt flavour.
Swaen© Pilsner
Swaen© Pilsner malt is the perfect foundation for your brew, making it the obvious choice for your base malt. Crafted from the finest European barley, it provides a clean, well-balanced malt profile that enhances both flavour and fermentation performance.
Swaen© Dutch Pilsner
Swaen© Dutch Pilsner malt is 100% Dutch – from the carefully selected local barley to the malting expertise rooted in the Netherlands. It’s the ideal foundation for your brew and a natural choice for your base malt. Dutch craftsmanship in every batch.
Swaen© Distilling
Swaen© Distilling malt is your go-to base malt for all distilling applications, offering the perfect combination of efficiency, versatility, and flavour. Designed specifically for distillers, this high-performance malt ensures smooth processing and exceptional.
Swaen© Ale
Swaen© Ale malt is carefully kilned at a higher temperature, giving it a rich character that enhances palate fullness and body. Its robust yet balanced profile works in perfect harmony with our specialty malts, adding depth and complexity to your brews.
Dutch Pale Ale
This local Dutch Pale Ale malt is crafted from 100% Dutch barley, grown in collaboration with local farmers. Produced through the Growing The Swaen project, it allows us to trace every step – from field to malt – ensuring transparency and quality control.
Swaen© Vienna
Swaen© Vienna malt can be used at 100% for brewing a traditional Vienna Lager, offering authenticity and balance. It’s often chosen to increase body and palate fullness, resulting in a round and satisfying mouthfeel. It delivers a smooth, malty profile.
Swaen© Munich Light
Swaen© Munich Light malt is a true workhorse malt that forms the foundation of countless beer styles. Renowned for its ability to elevate the character of a brew, this malt goes beyond just adding flavour – it actively enhances the body, aroma, and head retention.
Swaen© Munich Dark
Swaen© Munich Dark delivers even deeper, richer colours to your beer. Its robust profile adds a distinct malty flavour that enhances both aroma and taste. In addition to its flavour contribution, it creates a fuller, more satisfying mouthfeel.
Swaen© Amber
Swaen© Amber malt is the obvious choice when you’re looking to add both colour and character. Whether you’re brewing a Pale Ale, a rich Lager, or something experimental, this versatile malt enhances every style with its deep golden hue and layered flavour profile.
Swaen© Melany
Swaen© Melany malt is a unique malt that brings a warm, inviting flavour profile reminiscent of freshly baked goods. Think golden cookies, toasted nuts, and hints of biscuit – rich, comforting notes that add depth and complexity to your beer.
Swaen© Wheat Classic
Swaen© Wheat Classic malt is an essential ingredient for crafting exceptional wheat beers. Its smooth, slightly sweet flavour and high protein content make it the go-to choice for traditional styles like Hefeweizen, Witbier, and American Wheat Ale.
Swaen© Wheat Dark
Swaen© Wheat Dark malt lives up to its name – it’s a darker, more intense version of our classic wheat malt, carefully crafted to bring a richer character and deeper flavour to your brew. It also excels as a supportive malt in barley-based recipes.
Swaen© Spelt
Add a little spice to your beer with Swaen© Spelt malt, a grain closely related to wheat. Its higher protein content and lower gluten levels give your brew a unique structure and mouthfeel, adding both depth and character. This malt offers subtle, pleasant spicy notes.
Swaen© Rye
Swaen© Rye malt brings a distinctive spicy, earthy, and subtly fruity flavour to your beer, adding depth and complexity that makes each sip memorable. Its unique character can complement a variety of beer styles, giving your recipe a signature touch.
Swaen© Naked Oat
Our Swaen© Naked Oat malt adds both body and flavour, delivering the texture and silky smoothness unique to oats. Its huskless nature ensures a gentle, rounded mouthfeel that enriches every sip. It can produce a subtle haze in lighter beers.
Gold Swaen©
Pure cara – Caramelised malts
Our range of speciality caramel malts, also known as crystal malts. These are saccharified and then caramelised with the utmost care to provide complex flavours, from soft toffee to dark caramel notes. Our unique drum roasting process ensures beers of a fuller body and mouthfeel, and better foam stability. It can produce caramel malts from very low (10 EBC or 4 ºL) to very high (450 EBC or 170 ºL) colours.
Gold Swaen© Light
Gold Swaen© Light malt adds a gentle sweetness with rich malty flavours and soft toffee notes, enhancing the overall taste profile of your beer. In addition, it intensifies body and smoothness, and supports head formation and retention.
Gold Swaen© Hell
Gold Swaen© Hell malt adds a delicate caramel-sweet aroma and a warm golden hue to your beer. Its subtle flavour enhances the overall balance, making each sip smooth and enjoyable. Beyond aroma and colour, it contributes to a remarkable mouthfeel.
Gold Swaen© Belge
Gold Swaen© Belge malt is the ideal choice for brewing traditional Belgian styles. It enhances head retention, lifts aroma, and contributes to a fuller, rounder body, giving your beer a classic Belgian character. This malt adds both elegance and balance.
Gold Swaen© Red
Gold Swaen© Red malt enriches your beer with a deep, warm red colour that instantly stands out. Its vibrant hue makes it a perfect choice for red ales and other styles where colour plays a key role. It enhances the experience by adding flavour and body.
Gold Swaen© Amber
Gold Swaen© Amber malt stands out for its richer colour and deeper flavour profile compared to its lighter counterpart. With warmth and depth, this malt delivers distinct notes of toffee, rich caramel, and subtle roasted undertones.
Gold Swaen© Munich Light
Gold Swaen© Munich Light malt is an excellent choice to enhance caramel and malt aromas. Its warm reddish shine immediately enriches the appearance, while contributing to head formation and retention. This malt delivers a full, rounded flavour profile.
Gold Swaen© Classic
Gold Swaen© Classic malt delivers an intense caramel aroma and a full, rounded flavour, with rich notes of strong caramel and toffee. Its robust character adds complexity, making every sip memorable. It’s an excellent choice for dark festival beers.
Gold Swaen© Munich Dark
Gold Swaen© Munich Dark malt adds a warm reddish shine to your beer while delivering a smooth, rounded flavour profile. Rich notes of caramel take centre stage, supported by delicate hints of roasted grain. This malt brings a bolder character.
Gold Swaen© Brown Light
Gold Swaen© Brown Light malt enhances your beer with great body and a smooth, rounded mouthfeel, while adding a warm bronze shine. It also supports head formation and retention, ensuring your brew not only tastes great but looks inviting too.
Gold Swaen© Brown
Gold Swaen© Brown malt offers a deeper bronze. Its flavour profile combines subtle caramel notes with a more intense biscuit character, adding both warmth and complexity. Beyond flavour and colour, it improves body, head formation and retention.
Gold Swaen© Brown Supreme
Still not dark enough? Gold Swaen© Brown Supreme malt could be the perfect solution. It delivers an even deeper bronze shine, giving your beer a richer colour. At the same time, it intensifies biscuit aromas, adding warmth and complexity.
Gold Swaen© Aroma
Gold Swaen© Aroma malt enhances both body and smoothness while supporting head formation and retention. Its dark-reddish hue adds visual appeal, giving your beer a warm look. More than just colour, it acts as a true spice for your brew.
Gold Swaen© Wheat Light
Gold Swaen© Wheat Light malt brings mild, inviting notes of almond, biscuits, and fresh bread, making it an excellent choice for wheat beers. Because this malt is huskless, it avoids harsh bitterness while still contributing body and smoothness.
Gold Swaen© Wheat Dark
If you want your beer to be darker and fuller, Gold Swaen© Wheat Dark malt is an excellent choice. Being huskless, it adds richness without harsh bitterness, making it a versatile addition to many beer styles. This malt also enhances body and mouthfeel.
Black Swaen©
Rich and intense – Roasted malts
Our premium roasted malts are specifically created for brewers. The colours vary from biscuity brown to pitch black, while the flavour profiles range from biscuits to dark roasted coffee. Producers of Porters and Stouts will truly value the powerful colours, aromas and flavours of our darker, very special malts. These malts rely on our cutting-edge Probat drum roaster.
Black Swaen© Biscuit
Black Swaen© Biscuit malt – our lightest roasted malt – is produced with our Probat drum roaster. After being steeped, germinated, and kilned, biscuit malt is roasted at moderately high temperatures, relatively short, resulting in a colour of 70-90 EBC.
Black Swaen© Honey Biscuit
Black Swaen© Honey Biscuit malt is a distinctive creation unique to The Swaen. It combines the familiar, comforting taste of biscuit with sweet malty and honey notes, rounded off with a subtle hint of fresh bread. It adds both aroma and depth to your beer.
Black Swaen© Coffee
We have captured the essence of coffee in Black Swaen© Coffee malt. Alongside its rich coffee notes, it delivers nutty and creamy flavours that add depth and complexity to your brew. This roasted malt is a favourite for Porters and Stouts, where i truly shines.
Black Swaen© Chocolate B
Black Swaen© Chocolate B malt is a roasted barley malt that delivers a rich, deep brown colour and a complex roasted character to your beer. Crafted with precision, it imparts layers of nutty, toasted chocolate flavour, along with a gentle bitterness.
Black Swaen© Black
Black Swaen© Black malt adds bold character to your beer. Its rich, smoky flavours stand out, enhancing the aroma more than other coloured malts. This malt not only deepens the colour of your brew but also contributes complexity and depth.
Black Swaen© Black Extra
You just found the black diamond of our malt range! While it shares the intense roasted character of Black Swaen© Black, Black Swaen© Black Extra malt takes things a step further – delivering more depth, more intensity, and more boldness.
Black Swaen© Barley
Black Swaen© Barley grain is truly unique. Instead of being malted, the grain goes straight into our Probat drum roaster, allowing it to develop maximum colour and character. This direct roasting process intensifies the beer’s deep, rich hue.
Black Swaen© Chocolate Wheat
With its mild toast hints and gently roasted aroma, Black Swaen© Chocolate Wheat malt is an excellent choice for dark beers, adding complexity and a subtle richness that enhances every sip. Its smooth character complements malty backbones.
Black Swaen© Black Wheat
If dark isn’t dark enough, Black Swaen© Black Wheat malt is exactly what you need. It pushes colour intensity to the next level while adding hints of toast and a roasted aroma. Thanks to its smooth character, this malt can be used to colour any beer.
Platinum Swaen©
Special and unique – Functional malts
Our most exclusive, artisan malts are reserved for the Platinum range. These exceptional malts are developed by our talented team under the artistic and creative supervision of our malt master. Each product is made with a specific idea in mind – these are not your ordinary malts.
Platinum Swaen© Salty Caramel
Platinum Swaen© Salty Caramel malt delivers the best of both worlds. Its unique sweet-and-salty flavour adds a playful twist. Beyond taste and colour, this malt enhances head retention, creates a fuller body, and improves overall beer stability.
Platinum Swaen© Brown Porter
Platinum Swaen© Brown Porter malt is kilned on a roaster – not roasted – at a lower product temperature to preserve flavour. This careful process avoids burnt notes. At The Swaen, we honour tradition by using green malt rather than ready-made base malt.
Platinum Swaen© Stroopwafel
Cookies, syrupy caramel, and a subtle touch of cinnamon – Platinum Swaen© Stroopwafel malt brings the essence of the iconic Dutch treat straight into your brew. This unique blend of specialty malts is carefully crafted to deliver a rich flavour profile.
Platinum Swaen© Chit
Platinum Swaen© Chit malt is a highly under-modified malt, specially developed to enhance foam stability and improve mouthfeel. Produced through a shortened germination process, this malt retains a high proportion of high molecular weight proteins.
Platinum Swaen© Smoke
To create the distinctive flavour of Platinum Swaen© Smoke malt, we smoke the malt over traditional beech wood. This careful process infuses the grains with a rich, smoky character that’s instantly recognisable in both aroma and taste.
Platinum Swaen© Sauer
Platinum Swaen© Sauer malt is acidified with natural lactobacilli, specifically designed to help brewers fine-tune their mash pH. By gently lowering the pH during mashing, this malt improves enzyme activity and optimises starch conversion.
Platinum Swaen© Dextrin
Platinum Swaen® Dextrin is a functional malt designed to enhance body, mouthfeel and foam stability without increasing alcohol or adding noticeable colour. This malt is rich in unfermentable sugars (dextrins) that remain in the finished beer after fermentation.
Flakes
Improve recepies – Unmalted cereals
Some flakes intensify flavour or add a distinctive aroma. Others boost colour or increase the volume of fermentable sugars. In short, cereal grains bring a lot to the table. Among them, flaked grains stand out for their versatility. Unlike malted grains, they skip the malting process entirely. This means they retain their natural starches and don’t convert them into sugar on their own.
Flaked Wheat
Flaked wheat is an unmalted cereal grain that contributes significantly to a beer’s mouthfeel and flavour profile. Compared to malted wheat, it imparts more intense flavours – often described as spicy, bready, and grainy – which can lend complexity and depth.
Flaked Oat
Flaked oats are a popular unmalted adjunct known for adding smoothness, body, and a creamy texture to beer. They contribute subtle flavours – often described as nutty, oaty, or slightly earthy – which enhance a brew without overpowering the malt profile.
By-products
The Swaen also has something for the farmer – and other industries. These by-products are a result of the malting process and can be used for animal feed and to create biogas, for example. Subject to availability.
Malting pellets
When germinating, the kernels start to grow rootlets. These have no value for the brewing process and are therefore removed. They are however ideal to use as an animal feed supplement. The culms are pressed together with malt dust, crushed malt and malt chaff to create malting pellets.
Protein 20% – 30%
Fat 1% – 3%
Water 5% – 10%
Screenings
Tiny kernels (smaller than Ø2mm) are unsuitable for brewing and distilling. That’s why they are singled out from the malting process. But they can still be used as animal feed. They will exhibit slightly more protein than the kernels that become malting barley. Available in barley and wheat.
Protein 10% – 12%
Fat 3%
Water 12% – 17%
Malt dust
We combine residual material like chaff, husk and rootlets – that are found in our germination avenue, roaster and bagging line – to create malt dust. This product is perfect to create biogas at a special plant. So, what some consider as waste, we use to ensure a more sustainable future.
Protein > 12%
Fat 0%
Water 6%