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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. It can be mashed with a single-temperature infusion. It has a light, sweet malt flavour. Its enzymatic power makes it a perfect base malt.
Swaen© Pilsner
Swaen Pilsner is the obvious choice for your base malt. The strong cereal flavour is the base of this product, while still allowing specialty malts to come through.
Swaen© Distilling
This is the base malt for all distilling purposes. The malt has been cured at max. 70-75°C and is very enzymatic. It can be easily mashed with a single-temperature infusion.
Swaen© Ale
Swaen Ale is kilned at a higher temperature, and is used to improve palate fullness. It’s in perfect harmony with our specialty malts. This is a unique part of your recipes.
Dutch Pale Ale
This local malt is made from 100% Dutch barley. It is produced through the Growing The Swaen project, allowing us to trace and guarantee quality at every stage.
Swaen© Vienna
Swaen Vienna can be used 100% to make traditional Vienna Lager. It’s often used to increase body and improve palate fullness. It renders maltiness and has a smooth profile.
Swaen© Munich Light
Swaen Munich Light provides the basis of many beers. It’s known to enhance body, head and aroma of any beer. This malt provides a distinct malty flavour and enhances the colour.
Swaen© Munich Dark
While this malt is related to Swaen Munich Light, it brings out even deeper colours. It provides a distinct malty flavour and strong colours while enhancing the head and body.
Swaen© Amber
Swaen Amber is the obvious choice for colouring every type of beer, while adding malty flavours. Hints of biscuit and bread are an essential feature of this malt.
Swaen© Melany
Swaen Melany is has typical baked goods flavours, like cookie or toasted nuts. The unique production process ensures enhanced head retention and stability, colour and aroma.
Swaen© Wheat Classic
This is essential in making excellent wheat beers. Swaen Wheat Classic can also be added to barley-based beers, to give them a fuller mouthfeel and enhanced head stability.
Swaen© Wheat Dark
As the name implies, this malt is darker than Swaen Wheat Classic. It is perfect for specialty wheat beers and enriching barley malt based beers.
Swaen© Spelt
Add a little spice to your beer. Swaen Spelt is related to wheat. This malt contains more protein, but less gluten. Expect to find some nice spicy notes with a touch of hazelnut.
Swaen© Rye
Swaen Rye imparts a distinctive spicy, earthy, and slightly fruity flavour. It can contribute to a beer’s body and mouthfeel, providing a slightly viscous texture.
Swaen© Naked Oat
Swaen Naked Oat malt enhances body and flavour, while producing unmistakable texture and silkiness you can only get from oats. This huskless malt can create haze in lighter beers.
Gold Swaen©
Pure cara – Caramelized malts
Our range of speciality caramel malts, also known as crystal malts. These are saccharified and then caramelized 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
This malt brings sweetness with malty flavours and soft toffee notes. It also intensifies body and smoothness, promotes head formation, and enhances the colour slightly.
Gold Swaen© Hell
Gives a slight caramel-sweet aroma and golden colour to your beer. It ensures a remarkable mouthfeel, head formation, head retention, and extended beer stability.
Gold Swaen© Belge
Perfect for traditional Belgian beer styles. It provides better head retention, aroma and a fuller body. It imparts a honey-gold coloured hue and restrained notes of caramel.
Gold Swaen© Red
Gold Swaen Red gives your beer a warm red colour, which makes it a great addition to any red beer style. It has notes of toffee and caramel.
Gold Swaen© Amber
The colour of Gold Swaen Amber is more intense. You can find notes of toffee and strong caramel. It intensifies body and smoothness, and promotes head retention.
Gold Swaen© Munich Light
An excellent choice for a more intense caramel and malt aroma. It provides a reddish shine, head formation and retention, and full round flavour profile, with strong caramel notes.
Gold Swaen© Classic
Gold Swaen Classic has an intense caramel malt aroma, with a full round flavour and notes of strong caramel and toffee. It is an excellent choice for dark festival beers.
Gold Swaen© Munich Dark
Gold Swaen Munich Dark provides a reddish shine and round flavour profile, with notes of caramel. It is a darker than Gold Swaen Munich Light, with small hints of roasted grain.
Gold Swaen© Brown Light
This malt intensifies body and smoothness of beer with a bronze shine, and promotes head formation and retention. It has an intense caramel and biscuit aroma.
Gold Swaen© Brown
While similar to Gold Swaen Brown Light, this has a darker bronze hue. It has hints of caramel and intense biscuit, and ensures an improved body, head formation and retention.
Gold Swaen© Brown Supreme
Still not dark enough? Then Gold Swaen Brown Supreme might be your choice. It provides an even darker bronze shine, and brings out more biscuit aromas.
Gold Swaen© Aroma
Intensifies body and smoothness, and promotes head formation and retention. It has a dark-reddish hue. It’s a real spice for your beer, with hints of nuts and caramel.
Gold Swaen© Wheat Light
With mild notes of almond, biscuits and bread, Gold Swaen Wheat Light is perfect for wheat beers. This malt has no husk, and therefore no harsh bitterness.
Gold Swaen© Wheat Dark
If you want your beer to be a little darker and fuller, you should try the huskless Gold Swaen Wheat Dark. It’s often seen in various beer types for promoting body and a deeper colour.
Gold Swaen© Spelt
Gold Swaen Spelt has no husk. Because of the high protein content, this malt becomes darker at lower temperatures. It has nice spicy notes, with a touch of caramelised hazelnut.
Gold Swaen© Rye
Gold Swaen Rye adds body, mouthfeel, and head retention. It can be used in small quantities to improve the after taste. This huskless malt improves silkyness.
Gold Swaen© Oat
Strengthens mouthfeel, head retention and body. This huskless malt possesses a distinct texture and silky smoothness that can exclusively be found in oats.
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 is our lightest roasted malt. The high temperatures develop unique toasted, bready, biscuity, and especially nutty flavours and characteristic aromas.
Black Swaen© Honey Biscuit
Black Swaen Honey Biscuit is unique to The Swaen. The typical biscuit taste is combined with sweet malty and honey flavours, and a touch of bread.
Black Swaen© Coffee
We have captured the essence of coffee. Nutty and creamy flavours are also part of the profile. This is a preferred choice for Porter and Stout, but it’s suitable for any dark beer.
Black Swaen© Chocolate B
Black Swaen Chocolate B (Barley) is a roasted malt with a deep brown colour. It brings deeper aroma and colour for dark beers and imparts a nutty, toasted chocolate flavour.
Black Swaen© Black
Black Swaen Black brings character to your beer. The flavours – with smoky notes – enhance the determinative aroma, more than other coloured malts.
Black Swaen© Black Extra
You just found the black diamond! While similar in flavour and aroma, this is a little stronger than Black Swaen Black. Black Swaen Black Extra is our darkest malt.
Black Swaen© Barley
Black Swaen Barley is unique. The grain isn’t malted, but immediately goes into our Probat drum roaster. That is why it enhances an even deeper colour and foam head.
Black Swaen© Coffee Wheat Light
Our Black Swaen Coffee Light Wheat malt imparts nutty, creamy and mild coffee flavours. Since wheat has no husk, the flavour can be described as less astringent.
Black Swaen© Chocolate Wheat
With its mild toast hints and slightly roasted aroma, this is a perfect addition to dark beers. However, Black Swaen Chocolate Wheat can be used for intensifying any beer colour.
Black Swaen© Black Wheat
If dark isn’t dark enough, Black Swaen Black Wheat is made for you. It enhances the colour and adds mild toast hints and roast aroma. This malt can be used for colouring any beer.
Black Swaen© Spelt
Black Swaen Spelt has an intense flavour range of smooth chocolate and coffee essence. It’s less astringent than other black malts, since it has no husk.
Black Swaen© Rye
Black Swaen Rye is less astringent than most black malts and has an aroma of chocolate and roasted coffee. When used in moderation, it can give a unique twist to your beer.
Black Swaen© Oat
Black Swaen Oat can be used to add complexity and depth. The huskless, roasted version adds smooth chocolate and roasty coffee flavours, plus a typical aroma.
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
The best of both worlds. Next to the sweet and salty profile this malt gives a golden touch to your beer. It also provides a better head retention, fuller body and extended stability.
Platinum Swaen© Brown Porter
Platinum Swaen Brown Porter is kilned on a roaster – not roasted – at lower product temperature to avoid burnt flavours, while keeping chocolate, coffee and caramel.
Platinum Swaen© Stroopwafel
Cookies, syrupy caramel, and a hint of cinnamon; be inspired by the rich flavor profile of Platinum Swaen Stroopwafel. This blend is based on the iconic Dutch treat.
Platinum Swaen© Chit
Platinum Swaen Chit is a very under-modified malt, created to improve foam stability. Compared to other malts Platinum Swaen Chit has much more high molecular protein.
Platinum Swaen© Smoke
To create the unique Smoke flavour, it’s smoked with beech wood. This gives the beer a typical smoked aroma and taste. Even your mash might smell a little smoky.
Platinum Swaen© Sauer
This barley malt is acidified with lactobacilli to correct the pH-value during fermentation. It improves hydrolytic enzymes. Add 1% to your grist, to reduce your mash pH by 0.1pH.
Green Swaen©
Natural and fair – Biological malts
Our healthy family of all-natural malts meet the specific needs for producers of organic speciality beer. Each carefully crafted malt not only delivers the texture, colour and flavour you rightfully expect, but also fully complies with international natural, organic labelling criteria.
Green Swaen© Distilling
Swaen Distilling is the organic base malt for all distilling purposes. The malt has been cured at max. 70-75°C and is very enzymatic. It can be easily mashed with a single-temperature infusion.
Green Swaen© Pilsner
Thanks to the enzymatic power this is an obvious biological choice for base malt. The strong cereal flavour is the base of this product, while still allowing specialty malts to come through.
Green Swaen© Ale
Green Swaen Ale is used to improve palate fullness. Furthermore it’s in perfect harmony with our specialty malts. This is not just a darker biological base malt, but a unique part of your recipes.
Green Swaen© Vienna
Green Swaen Vienna can be used 100% to make traditional, organic Vienna Lagers. It’s often used to increase body and improve palate fullness. It renders maltiness and has a smooth profile.
Green Swaen© Munich Light
Green Swaen Munich Light provides the basis of many dark beers. It’s known to enhance body, head and aroma of any beer. This organic malt provides a distinct malty flavour and enhances the colour.
Green Swaen© Wheat Classic
This biological malt is essential in making excellent wheat beers. Green Swaen Wheat Classic can also be added to barley-based beers, to give them a fuller mouthfeel and enhanced head stability.
Green Swaen© Gold Light
This organic malt brings sweetness with malty flavours and soft toffee notes. It also intensifies body and smoothness, promotes head formation and retention, and enhances the colour slightly.
Green Swaen© Gold Hell
Green Swaen Gold Hell gives a slight caramel-sweet aroma and golden colour to your beer. This biological malt ensures a remarkable mouthfeel, head formation, head retention, and extended beer stability.
Green Swaen© Gold Red
The biological Green Swaen Gold Red malt gives your beer a reddish shine and ensures notes of toffee and caramel. The malt aroma is improved, while flavours are intensified and stabilised.
Green Swaen© Gold Munich Light
This is an excellent choice for a more intense caramel and malt aroma. The organic malt provides a reddish shine, head formation and retention, and full round flavour profile, with strong caramel notes.
Green Swaen© Gold Classic
Green Swaen Gold Classic has an intense caramel malt aroma, with a full round flavour and notes of strong caramel and toffee. This biological malt is an excellent choice for dark festival beers.
Green Swaen© Gold Munich Dark
Green Swaen Gold Munich Dark provides a reddish shine and full round flavour profile, with notes of caramel. This organic malt is a little darker than Green Swaen Gold Munich Light, with small hints of roasted grain.
Green Swaen© Black Extra
You just found the black diamond! While similar in flavour and aroma, this is a little stronger than Black Swaen Black on every front. Black Swaen Black Extra is our darkest malt.
Flakes
Improve recepies – Unmalted cereals
Some intensify a certain characteristic and add a unique aroma, while others affect the colour or boost the volume of fermentable sugars – cereals have a lot to offer. Flaked grains are not malted at all. This means they don’t break down their starch, so they are only used to add that little extra to your beer.
Flaked Wheat
This cereal imparts more intense flavours than the malted wheat. Flaked wheat ensures a hazy beer.
Flaked Oat
The excess in beta-glucans results in haziness and a silky mouthfeel. It could also affect filtration, so you might want to add rice hulls.
Flaked Maize
Brewing with corn is best done by adding flakes. They have little protein and can be added directly to your mash.
Flaked Barley
These cereals will increase the volume of fermentable sugars, without adding much body or taste. Some haziness might occur.
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%